| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1991 | An Atlas of the Difficult World | W. W. Norton & Company | $25,000 | Mona Van Duyn |
| Edward Hirsch | ||||
| Thomas Lux |
On May 16, 1929, Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951, and was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of World that same year.