| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1977 | Lucky Life | Houghton Mifflin | $5,000 | Alan Dugan |
| Philip Levine | ||||
| Charles Wright |
Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His recent poetry collections include In Beauty Bright: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2012); Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992 (W. W. Norton, 2010), and Save the Last Dance: Poems (2008).