1943: This healthy life / Vicki Baum
Boundary line / Warren Beck
Frenchman's ship / Kay Boyle
The pleasures of solitude / John Cheever
The dream of Angelo Zara / Guido D'Agostino
Samuel Blane / Murray Dyer
The bear / William Faulkner
Beginning of wisdom / Rachel Field
A partnership with death / Vardis Fisher
What do you see, dear Enid? / Grace Flandrau
Time's end / Robert Gibbons
Threnody for Stelios / Peter Gray
Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale
The peach stone / Paul Horgan
The enchanted / Laurette MacDuffie Knight
The little black boys / Clara Laidlaw
Love is for lovers / Mary Lavin
Young man in an Astrakhan cap / Edita Morris
Knife-like, flower-like, like nothing at all in the world / William Saroyan
An argument in 1934 / Delmore Schwartz.
Preach on the dusty roads / Irwin Shaw
My public / Margaret Shedd
Chip off the old block / Wallace Stegner
Death and my Uncle Felix / Alison Stuart
Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart
The women / Richard Sullivan
The Catbird seat / James Thurber
Homecoming / Jessie Treichler
Philadelphia express / Jerome Weidman
1953: A mother's tale / James Agee
A mountain summer / James Ballard
The town mouse / Stephen Becker
At Mrs. Farrelly's / Joseph Carroll
The life of the sleeping beauty / R.V. Cassill
The need / Robert M. Coates
Crispin's way / Harris Downey
Struttin' with some barbecue / Osborn Duke
A death in the family / Wingate Froscher
Athens, Greece, 1942 / Vahan Krikorian Gregory
A spot in history / James B. Hall
The bullalo wallow / Charles Tenney Jackson
Fly away home / Roberts Jackson
Dog days / Madison P. Jones, Jr.
Beachhead in Bohemia / Willard Marsh
The hill people / Elizabeth Marshall
The whipping / Felix Noland
The picnic / Constance Pendergast
Change of plan / Ken Purdy
Our vegetable love / Clay Putman
Workout on the river / Roger Shattuck
The fugue of the fig tree / Stanley Sultan
Still, still so / Mark Van Doren
A week of roses / Donald Wesely
The forest of the night / Christine Weston
Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams
The conqueror / Simon Wincelberg.
1954: A great reckoning in a little room / Geoffrey Bush
A beautiful night for Orion / Richard Clay
The sense that in the scene delights / Benjamin DeMott
A stop on the way to Texas / Ward Dorrance
The firebird / LeGarde S. Doughty
Apple seed and apple thorn / Elizabeth Enright
My brother down there / Steve Frazee
A change of air / Ivan Gold
Farewell, sweet love / Priscilla Heath
The house on the Esplanade / Anne Hebert
Char on raven's bench / Frank Holwerda
Gertrude and Sidney / Randall Jarrell
No way down / Almet Jenks
The latter end - George Loveridge
The game / Frances Gray Patton
The red mountain / Robert Payne
The mango tree / Rosanne Smith Robinson
In the French style / Irwin Shaw
The shorn lamb / Jean Stafford
The pale green fishes / Kressmann Taylor
The third guest / B. Traven
The man in gray / Christine Weston
The indomitable blue / Ira Wolfert
The rock / Vurell Yentzen.
1955: A matter of price / Robert O. Bowen
The excursionists / Nancy Cardozo
Bachelor of Arts / Nancy G. Chaikin
The country husband / John Cheever
The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell, Jr.
The decline and fall of Augie Sheean / Joe Coogan
The day of the equinox / Daniel Curley
Little Joe / William Eastlake
Brother Quintillian and Dick the chemist / George P. Elliott
The hundredth centennial / Mac Hyman
The resting place / Oliver La Farge
The magic barrel / Bernard Malumud
Dead center / Judith Merril /
Portrait of my son as a young man / Elizabeth H. Middleton
The professor and the poet / Marvin Mudrick
A circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor
Tip on a dead jockey / Irwin Shaw
Maiden in a tower / Wallace Stegner
Herman's day / Harvey Swados
I got a friend / Mark Van Doren
The scale room / George Vukelich
Going to Naples / Eudora Welty.
1956: In an early winter / Roger Angell
The snow owl / Morris Brown
We're all guests / George R. Clay
In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates
The undertow / Wesley Ford Davis /
The devil on a hot afternoon / Ward Dorrance
The quiet chimneys / William Eastlake
Is he dead? / Geroge P. Elliott
Free the canaries from their cages! / Arthur Granit
How Levon Dai was surrendered to the Edemuses / Marjory Anais Housepian
One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson
The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac
Creole love song / Nathaniel LaMar
1957: Beasts of the wild / Nelson Algren
Around the dear ruin / Gina Berriault
The proud and virtuous / Doris Betts
Man's courage / Wyatt Blassingame
To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler
The dark roots of the rose / Walter Clemons
Arcturus / Evan S. Connell, Jr.
The unhappy hunting grounds / William Eastlake
A summer's long dream / Nancy Hale
The blue serge suit / John Langdon
Lula Borrow / Thomas Mabry
A heart of furious fancies / Winona McClintic
Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
The Farlow Express / Anthony Robinson
The impossible He / Rosanne Smith Robinson
Run, run away, brother / John Campbell Smith
Saturday is a poor man's port / Henrietta Weigel
Escape to the city / Gordon Woodward.
1959: Jawaharlal and the three cadavers / John Berry
Winter term / Sallie Bingham
Amid a place of stone / Frank Butler
The bella lingua / John Cheever
Getaway / Robert M. Coates
The Iowan's curse / Charles G. Finney
Mrs. Mean / William H. Gass
A day in the life of the boss / Hugh Geeslin, Jr.
Love and like / Herbert Gold
In a tropical minor key / Frank Holwerda
The last Mohican / Bernard Malamud
A secret society / Howard Nemerov
The guy in Ward 4 / Leo Rosten
The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
a birthday present / Anne Sayre
The man in the toolhouse / Harvey Swados
Venus, cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor
A gift from the city / John Updike
The buck in Trotevale's / Thomas Williams
The window / Ethel Wilson.