The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
| 1980 | Kill the Messenger | Winner | [1] | |
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| 1981 | Three Pieces | Winner | [2] | |
| 1982 | Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977–1980 | Winner | [3] | |
| 1983 | The Changing Light at Sandover | Winner | [4] | |
| 1984 | The Maximus Poems | Winner | [5] | |
| 1985 | Cross Ties | Winner | [6] | |
| 1986 | Collected Poems, 1948–1984 | Winner | [7] | |
| 1987 | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems | Winner | [8] | |
| 1988 | New and Collected Poems | Winner | [9] | |
| 1989 | The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts | Winner | [10] | |
| 1990 | The Color of Mesabi Bones | Winner | [11] | |
| Going Back to the River | Finalist | |||
| Grace Notes: Poems | ||||
| Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems | ||||
| What Light There Is | ||||
| 1991 | What Work Is | Winner | [12] | |
| Region of Unlikeness | Finalist | |||
| Star Ledger | ||||
| Sudden Dreams: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 | ||||
| 1992 | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | Winner | [13] | |
| Bread Without Sugar: Poems | Finalist | |||
| Sub Rosa: Poems | ||||
| The Father: Poems | ||||
| The Wild Iris | ||||
| 1993 | My Alexandria | Winner | [14] | |
| Afterworld | Finalist | |||
| Hotel Insomnia: A Novel | ||||
| Legends from Camp: Poems | ||||
| Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| 1994 | The Angel of History | Winner | [15] | |
| Bag O’ Diamonds: Poems | Finalist | |||
| Lost Country | ||||
| Materialism: Poems | ||||
| The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems | ||||
| 1995 | The Inferno of Dante | Winner | [16] | |
| City of Salt | Finalist | |||
| New and Selected Poems | ||||
| Song: Poems | ||||
| Split Horizon: Poems | ||||
| 1996 | Mixed Company | Winner | [17] | |
| Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 | Finalist | |||
| Meadowlands | ||||
| Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected | ||||
| The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 | ||||
| The Terrible Stories: Poems | ||||
| The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 | ||||
| Things That Happen Once: New Poems | ||||
| Wise Poison: Poems | ||||
| 1997 | Black Zodiac | Winner | [18] | |
| An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Natal Command | ||||
| Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997 | ||||
| with Christopher Merrill | The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems | |||
| 1998 | Mysteries of Small Houses | Winner | ||
| American Rush: Selected Poems | Finalist | [20] | ||
| The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative | ||||
| The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems | ||||
| Without: Poems | ||||
| 1999 | Repair: Poems | Winner | ||
| The Dreamhouse | Finalist | [21] | ||
| The Father of the Predicaments | ||||
| The Oval Hour: Poems | ||||
| The Red Leaves of Night | ||||
| 2000 | The Throne of Labdacus | Winner | ||
| Men in the Off Hours | Finalist | [22] | ||
| Pastoral | ||||
| Some Ether: Poems | ||||
| The Ledge | ||||
| 2001 | The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos | Winner | ||
| Felt: Poems | Finalist | [23] | ||
| Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems | ||||
| Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001 | ||||
| The Seven Ages | ||||
| 2002 | The Watercourse: Poems | Winner | ||
| Hazmat | Finalist | [24] | ||
| Hip Logic | ||||
| North Point North: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| Sleeping With the Dictionary | ||||
| 2003 | Collected Later Poems | Winner | [25] | |
| Departure: Poems | Finalist | |||
| Jelly Roll: A Blues | ||||
| Middle Earth: Poems | ||||
| The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems | ||||
| 2004 | Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003 | Winner | [26] | |
| Keeping My Name | Finalist | |||
| The Clerk’s Tale: Poems | ||||
| The Optimist | ||||
| The Orchard | ||||
| 2005 | Refusing Heaven: Poems | Winner | [27] | |
| Luck Is Luck: Poems | Finalist | |||
| Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems | ||||
| The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems | ||||
| Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| 2006 | Ooga-Booga | Winner | [28] | |
| Black Box | Finalist | [29] | ||
| Burning Wyclif: Poems | ||||
| Darling Vulgarity: Poems | ||||
| Logorrhea: Poems | ||||
| 2007 | Old Heart: Poems | Winner | [30] | |
| Little Boat | Finalist | |||
| Mars Being Red | ||||
| Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 | ||||
| 2008 | Watching the Spring Festival: Poems | Winner | [31] [32] | |
| Ours | Finalist | [33] | ||
| Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream | ||||
| Sea Change: Poems | ||||
| The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems | ||||
| 2009 | Practical Water | Winner | [34] | |
]Open Interval[''
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|{{Sortname|Gabrielle|Calvocoressi}}
|''Apocalyptic Swing: Poems''
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|{{Sortname|Amy|Gerstler}}
|''Dearest Creature''
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|{{Sortname|Tom|Healy|Tom Healy (poet)}}
|''What the Right Hand Knows''
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|{{sortname|Maxine|Kumin}}
|''Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010''
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|{{Sortname|Craig Santos|Perez}}
|''From Unincorporated Territory: Saina''
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|{{Sortname|Yehoshua|November}}
|''God’s Optimism''
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|{{Sortname|Henri|Cole}}
|''Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems''
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|{{Sortname|Ed|Roberson}}
|''To See the Earth Before the End of the World''
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! rowspan="5" |2011
|{{sortname|Carl|Phillips}}
|''Double Shadow: Poems''
|Winner
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|{{Sortname|Bruce|Smith|Bruce Smith (poet)}}
|''Devotions''
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|{{Sortname|Dawn|Lundy Martin}}
|''Discipline''
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|{{Sortname|Jim|Harrison}}
|''[[Songs of Unreason]]|-||The Public Gardens: Poems and History|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2012||Poems 1962–2012|Winner|[35] [36] |-||Aerial| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[37] |-||Gravesend|-||The Ground: Poems|-||Useless Landscape: or A Guide for Boys: Poems|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2013||Collected Poems|Winner|[38] |-||Debts & Lessons| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[39] |-||Hello, the Roses|-||On Ghosts|-||The Inside of an Apple|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2014||Citizen: An American Lyric|Winner|[40] |-||Blood Lyrics: Poem| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[41] |-||In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011|-||Peace|-||The Feel Trio|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2015||From the New World: Poems 1976–2014|Winner|[42] |-||Chord| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" ||-||Shirt in Heaven|-||The Ruined Elegance|-||Voyage of the Sable Venus|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2016||Gap Gardening: Selected Poems|Winner|[43] |-||A Woman of Property| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[44] |-||House of Lords and Commons: Poems|-||Mr. Memory & Other Poems|-||World of Made and Unmade|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2017||Incendiary Art: Poems|Winner|[45] |-||Daylily Called it A Dangerous Moment| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" ||-||For the Scribe|-||In the Language of my Captor|-||semiautomatic|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2018||Wild is the Wind: Poems|Winner|[46] [47] |-||Feeld| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" ||-||American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin|-||Ghost Of|-||Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2019||Deaf Republic: Poems|Winner|[48] [49] |-||Felon| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[50] |-||Oculus|-||Dunce|-||Be Recorder|-style="background:LemonChiffon; color:black"! rowspan="5" |2020||Obit|Winner||-||Borderland Apocrypha| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[51] |-||Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts|-||Postcolonial Love Poem|-||The Age of Phillis|-style="background:LemonChiffon; ! rowspan="5" |2021||frank: sonnets|Winner|[52] |-||Master Suffering| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[53] |-||Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems|-||Floaters: Poems|-||Yellow Rain: Poems|-style="background:LemonChiffon; ! rowspan="5" |2022||Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems |Winner|[54] |-||Martian: The Saint of Loneliness| rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |[55] |-||Ante Body |-||Daughters of Harriet: Poems |-||Customs: Poems |-style="background:LemonChiffon; ! rowspan="5" |2023||Bread and Circus: Poems|Winner|[56] |-||Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco| rowspan="4" |Finalist| rowspan="4" |[57] |-||Couplets: A Love Story|-|||-||Master: Poems|}References |