1995 - Ricardo Quinones
1996 - Roger Shattuck
1997 - Robert Alter
1998 - Eleanor Cook
1999 - Austin E. Quigley
2000 - Mary K. Lefkowitz
2001 - John Hollander
2002 - James Engell
2003 - Stanley Stewart
2004 - Michael Valdez Moses
2005 - Rosanna Warren
2006 - Tom Clayton
2007 - Morris Dickstein
2008 - Christopher Ricks
2009 - Clare Cavanagh
2010 - Susan Wolfson
2011 - Greg Delanty
2012 - John Burt
2013 - Sarah Spence
2014 - John Briggs
2015 - Adelaide Russo
2016 - John Briggs
2017 - Ernest Suarez
2018 - Richard R. Russell
2019 - Kate Daniels
2020 - Lee Oser
2021 - Lee Oser and David Bromwich
2022 - David Bromwich
2023 - David Mikics
2024 - Diana Senechal