| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1982 | This Strange Joy: Selected Poems of Sandro Penna | Ohio State University Press | $10,000 | Alfredo de Palchi |
| Jonathan Galassi | ||||
| Rosanna Warren |
Poet, translator, and essayist W. S. Di Piero was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1945 and grew up in an Italian working class neighborhood. He attended St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia and received a master’s degree from San Francisco State University in 1971.