| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judge |
| 1975 | The Freeing of the Dust | New Directions | $25,000 | Hayden Carruth |
Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England, on October 24, 1923. She was educated entirely at home and claimed to have decided to become a writer at the age of five. At age seventeen she had her first poem published in Poetry Quarterly.