| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1977 | The Poems of François Villon | Houghton Mifflin | $1,000 | Mark Strand |
Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 1, 1927. In 1948, he graduated from Princeton University, where he was classmates with W. S. Merwin. He later received his master’s degree from the University of Rochester.