To answer the question how often have women won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and how old were the winners:
- 1923 - Edna St. Vincent Millay (31 years old)
- 1926 - Amy Lowell (50)
- 1927 - Leonora Speyer (55)
- 1935 - Audrey Wurdemann (24)
- 1938 - Marya Zaturenska (36)
- 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks (33)
- 1952 - Marianne Moore (65)
- 1956 - Elizabeth Bishop (45)
- 1961 - Phyllis McGinley (56)
- 1967 - Anne Sexton (39)
- 1973 - Maxine Kumin (48)
- 1982 - Sylvia Plath (posthumous)
- 1985 - Carolyn Kizer (62)
- 1987 - Rita Dove (35)
- 1991 - Mona Van Duyn (70)
- 1993 - Louise Gluck (50)
- 1996 - Jorie Graham (46)
- 1997 - Lisel Mueller (73)
- 2006 - Claudia Emerson (49)
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