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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             CONTEST-WINNING BOOKS: A A. Poulin, Jr. Prize (BOA Editions) 2006—Janice Harrington: From the Shadows' Darkness 2005—Tom Hansen: Falling to Earth 2004—David Woo: The Eclipses 2003—Crystal Bacon: Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey 2002—Michael Teig: Big Back Yard Agha Shahid Ali Prize (University of Utah Press) 2006—Jane Springer: Dear Blackbird 2005—Bino A. Realuyo: The Gods We Worship Live Next Door 2004—Jacqueline Berger: Things That Burn 2003—Ann Lauinger: Persuasion of Fall Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press) 2005—Rick Hilles: Brother Salvage 2004—Aaron Smith: Blue on Blue Ground 2003—David Shumate: High Water Mark 2002—Shao Wei: Pulling a Dragon's Teeth 2001—Gabriel Gudding: A Defense of Poetry 2000—Quan Barry: Asylum 1999—Daisy Fried: She Didn't Mean To Do It 1998—Shara McCallum: The Water Between Us 1997—Richard Blanco: City of a Hundred Fires 1996—Helen Conkling: Red Peony Night 1995—Sandy Solomon: Pears, Lake, Sun 1994—Jan Beatty: Mad River 1993—Natasha Sajé: Red Under the Skin 1992—Hunt Hawkins: The Domestic Life 1991—Julia Kasdorf: Sleeping Preacher 1990—Debra Allbery: Walking Distance 1989—Nancy Vieira Couto: The Face in the Water 1988—Maxine Scates: Toluca Street 1987—David Rivard: Torque 1986—Robley Wilson: Kingdoms of the Ordinary 1985—Liz Rosenberg: The Fire Music 1984—Arthur Smith: Elegy on Independence Day 1983—Kate Daniels: The White Wave 1982—Lawrence Joseph: Shouting at No One 1981—Kathy Calloway: Heart of the Garfish Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press) 2006—Alison Pelegrin: Big Muddy River of Stars 2005—Ashley Capps: Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields 2004—Vern Rutsala: How We Spent Our Time 2003—Sharmila Voorakkara: Fire Wheel 2002—Roger Mitchell: Delicate Bait 2001—George Bilgere: The Good Kiss 2000—John Minczeski: Circle Routes 1999—Dennis Hinrichsen: Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights 1998—Beckian Fritz Goldberg: Never Be the Horse 1997—Jeanne E. Clark: Ohio Blue Tips 1996—Clare Rossini: Winter Morning with Crow 1995—Susan Yuzna: Her Slender Dress Alberta Prize (Fence Books) 2006—Ariana Reines: The Cow 2005—Laura Sims: Practice, Restraint 2004—Sasha Steensen: A Magic Book 2003— Rosemary Griggs: Sky Girl 2002—Tina Brown Celona: The Real Moon Of Poetry And Other Poems 2001—Chelsey Minnis: Zirconia American Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press) 2007—Matthew Guenette: Sudden Anthem 2006—Theodore Worozbyt: The Dauber Wings American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize (Copper Canyon Press) 2007—Gregory Pardlo: Totem 2006—David Roderick: Blue Colonial 2005—Geoff Bouvier: Living Room 2004—Kevin Ducey: Rhinoceros 2003—James McCorkle: Evidences 2002—Kathleen Ossip: The Search Engine 2001—Ed Pavlic: Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue 2000—Anne Marie Macari: Ivory Cradle 1999—Dana Levin: In The Surgical Theatre 1998—Joshua Beckman: Things Are Happening Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press) 2006—Gabriel Gomez: The Outer Bands 2004—Sheryl Luna: Pity the Drowned Horses Anhinga Prize (Anhinga Press) 2006—Meredith Walters: All You Have To Do Is Ask 2005—Sandy Longhorn: Blood Almanac 2004—Joshua Poteat: Ornithologies 2003—Deborah Landau: Orchidelirium 2002—Erika Meitner: Inventory at the All-night Drugstore 2001—Patti White: Tackle Box 2000—Ruth L. Schwartz: Singular Bodies 1999—Kathleen Wakefield: Notations on the Visible World 1998—Julia B. Levine: Practicing for Heaven 1997—Michele Wolf: Conversations During Sleep 1996—Keith Ratzlaff: Man Under a Pear Tree 1995—Ann Neelon: Easter Vigil 1994—Frank X. Gaspar: Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death 1993—Janet Holmes: The Physicist at the Mall 1992—Earl S. Braggs: Hat Dancer Blue 1991—Jean Monahan: Hands 1989—Nick Bozanic: The Long Drive Home 1988—Julianne Seeman: Enough Light to See 1987—Will Wells: Conversing with the Light 1986—Robert Levy: The Whistle Maker 1985—Judith Kitchen: Perennials 1984—Sherry Rind: The Hawk in the Backyard 1983—Ricardo Pau-Llosa: Sorting Metaphors Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (Waywiser Press) 2006—Erica Dawson: Big-Eyed Afraid 2005—Morri Creech: Field Knowledge Arkansas Poetry Series (University of Arkansas Press) 2007—Donald Platt: My Father Says Grace 2007—Robert Gibb: World Over Water 2006—Margaret Holley: Walking through the Horizon 2006—Christopher Bursk: The First Inhabitants of Arcadia 2006—Carole Simmons Oles: Daughter's Industry 2006—Elizabeth Hadaway: Fire Baton 2005—K.E. Duffin: King Vulture 2005—Gary Fincke: Standing around the Heart 2005—Elton Glaser: Here and Hereafter 2005—Annie Boutell: Becoming Bone 2004—Patrick Phillips: Chattahoochee 2004—Harry Humes: August Evening with Trumpet 2004—Robert Gibb: The Burning World 2004—Elizabeth Biller Chapman: Candlefish 2003—Michelle Boisseau: Trembling Air 2003—Dannye Romine Powell: The Ecstasy of Regret Autumn House Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press) 2006—Nancy Pagh: No Sweeter Fat 2005—Ada Limon: Lucky Wreck 2004—Ruth L. Schwartz: Dear Good Naked Morning 2003—Deborah Slicer: The White Calf Kicks