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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             CONTEST-WINNING BOOKS: B Backwaters Prize (Backwaters Press) 2005—Anita Feng: Sadie and Morris 2004—Aaron Anstett: No Accident 2003—Michelle Gillett: Blinding The Goldfinches 2002—Ginny MacKenzie: Skipstone 2001—Susan Firer: The Laugh We Make When We Fall 2000—David Staudt: The Gifts and Thefts 1999—Sally Allen McNall: Rescue 1998—Kevin Griffith: Paradise Refunded Bakeless Poetry Prize (Bread Loaf Writers' Conference) 2007—Aaron Baker: Mission Work 2006—Matt Donovan: Vellum 2005—David Tucker: Late for Work 2004—Ron Slate: The Incentive of the Maggot 2003—Spencer Reece: The Clerk's Tale 2002—Jennifer Grotz: Cusp 2001—Miranda Field: Swallow 2001—Malinda Markham: Ninety-five Nights of Listening 2000—Sam Witt: Everlasting Quail   1999—Jill Alexander Essbaum: Heaven   1998—Daniel Tobin: Where the World Is Made   1998—Chris Forhan: Forgive Us Our Happiness 1997—m loncar: 66 galaxie poems 1996—Mary Jo Bang: Apology for Want Barnard Women Poets Prize (Barnard College) 2006—Cathy Park Hong: Dance Dance Revolution 2005—Julie Sheehan: Orient Point 2004—Tessa Rumsey: The Return Message 2003—Rebecca Wolff: Figment 2001—Lisa Goett: Waiting for the Paraclete 2000—Sharan Strange: Ash 1999—Christine Hume: Musca Domestica 1998—Jena Osman: The Character 1997—Larissa Szporluk: Dark Sky Question 1996—Harriet Levin: The Christmas Show 1995—Reetika Vazirani: White Elephants 1994Joyce Sutphen: Straight Out of View 1993—Donna Masini: That Kind of Danger 1992—Ruth Forman: We are the Young Magicians 1991—Frances McCue: The Stenographer’s Breakfast 1990—Dorothy Barresi: All of the Above 1989—Barbara Jordan: Channel 1987—Elizabeth Socolow: Laughing at Gravity Barrow Street Press Award (Barrow Street Press) 2006—Richard Hoffman: Gold Star Road 2005—Stan Sanvel Rubin: Hidden Sequel 2004—Sally Ball: Annis Mirabilis 2003—Christine Scanlon: A Hat on the Bed 2002—Joshua Corey: Selah Beatrice Hawley Award (Alice James Books) 2006—Henrietta Goodman Chaussee: Colonization 2005—Brian Turner: Here, Bullet 2004—Dobby Gibson: Polar 2003—Catherine Barnett: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced 2002—Mary Szybist: Granted 2001—Liz Waldner: Self and Simulacra 2000—Claudia Keelan: Utopic 1999—Amy Newman: Camera Lyrica 1998—Laura Kasischke: Fire and Flower 1997—B.H. Fairchild: The Art of the Lathe 1996—Cynthia Huntington: We Have Gone to the Beach 1995—Forrest Hamer: Call & Response 1994—Richard McCann: Ghost Letters 1992—Alice Jones: The Knot 1988—Jean Valentine: Home · Deep · Blue 1987—Laurel Trivelpiece: Blue Holes 1986—Linnea Johnson: The Chicago Home Benjamin Saltman Award (Red Hen Press) 2005—Mariko Nagai: Histories of Bodies 2004—Charles Harper Webb: Amplified Dog 2003—Maggie Smith: Lamp of the Body 2002—Susan Thomas: State of Blessed Gluttony 2001—Ann Silsbee: Orioling 2000—Amy Randolph: Cold Angel of Mercy 1999—Jim Peterson: The Owning Stone 1998—Gaylord Brewer: Devilfish Black Zinnias First Book Award (Black Zinnias) 2003—Joanna Catherine Scott: Breakfast at the Shangri-La Blue Lynx Prize (Eastern Washington University Press) 2006—Jim Daniels: Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies 2005—Julie Gamberg: The Museum of Natural History 2004—Randall Watson: The Sleep Accusations   2003—Lisa Beskin: My Work Among the Faithful 2002—Miguel Murphy: A Book Called Rats 2001—Doren Robbins: Driving Face Down 2000—Lynne Burris Butler: Sunday Afternoons with Tolstoy 1999—Carolyne Wright: Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire Bluestem Award (Bluestem Press) 2005—Thomas Dukes: Baptist Confidential 2004—Matthew Spireng: Out of Body 2003—Patrica Hooper: Aristotle's Garden 2002—Elizabeth Tibbetts: In the Well 2001—Cheryl Lachowski: Homing 2000—Katharine Whitcomb: Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems 1998—Mary Crockett Hill: If You Return Home with Food 1997—Jacqueline Berger: The Mythologies of Danger 1996—Lesley Dauer: The Fragile City 1995—George Looney: Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh 1995—Carlos Reyes: A Suitcase Full of Crows 1994—Edison Dupree: Prosthesis 1993—John Hodgen: In My Father's House 1992—Robert Gregory: Boy Picked Up by the Wind 1991—Margaret Holley: The Smoke Tree 1990—Jill Breckenridge: How to Be Lucky 1989—Ger Killeen: A Wren Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award (Bright Hill Press) 2004—Darcy Cummings: The Artist as Alice: From a Photographer's Life 2003—Victoria Hallerman: The Aerialist 2002—Lisa Rhoades: Strange Gravity 2001—Barbara Hurd: The Singer’s Temple 2000—Richard Deutch: Heart, with Piano Wire 1999—Claudia M. Reder: My Father and Miro and Other Poems 1998—Beth Vargo: Traveling through Glass 1997—Judith Neeld: To Fit Your Heart into the Body 1996—Regina O'Melveny: Blue Wolves 1995—Pam Bernard: My Own Hundred Doors Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press) 2005—Susanna Childress: Jagged with Love 2004—John Brehm: Sea of Faith 2003—Brian Teare: The Room Where I Was Born 2002—Anna George Meek: Acts of Contortion 2001—Robin Behn: Horizon Note 2000—Greg Rappleye: A Path Between Houses 1999—Frank X. Gaspar: A Field Guide to the Heavens 1998—Suzanne Paola: Bardo 1997—Olena Kalytiak Davis: And Her Soul Out of Nothing 1996—Juanita Brunk: Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface 1995—Lynn Powell: Old and New Testaments 1994—Lisa Lewis: The Unbeliever 1993—Stephanie Strickland: The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil 1992—Tony Hoagland: Sweet Ruin 1991—Renée Ashley: Salt 1990—Judith Vollmer: Level Green 1989—Stephanie Marlis: Slow Joy 1988—Lisa Zeidner: Pocket Sundial 1987—David Kirby: Saving the Young Men of Vienna 1986—Patricia Dobler: Talking To Strangers 1985—Jim Daniels: Places/Everyone