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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             CONTEST-WINNING BOOKS: C Carolina Wren Press Poetry Prize (Carolina Wren Press) 2005—Linda Tomol Pennisi: Suddenly, Fruit Catfish Prize (Catfish Publishing) 2005—Stephen Roger Powers: The Follower's Tale Cave Canem Prize (Cave Canem) 2006—Dawn Lundy Martin: A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering 2005—Constance Quarterman Bridges: Lions Don't Eat Us 2004—Amber Flora Thomas: Eye of Water 2003—Kyle Dargan: The Listening 2002—Tracy K. Smith: The Body’s Question 2001—Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: Black Swan 2000—Major Jackson: Leaving Saturn 1999—Natasha Trethewey: Domestic Work Charles B. Wheeler Prize (The Journal/Ohio State University Press) 2007—Mark Svenvold: Empire Burlesque 2006—Jean Nordhaus: Innocence 2005—Brian Swann: Autumn Road 2004—Beth Gylys: Spot in the Dark 2003—Gary Fincke: Writing Letters for the Blind 2002—Patty Seyburn: Mechanical Cluster 2001—Joseph Duemer: Magical Thinking 2000—Lia Purpura: Stone Sky Lifting 1999—Mary Ann Samyn: Captivity Narrative 1998—Walt McDonald: Blessings the Body Gave 1997—Judith Hall: Anatomy, Errata 1996—John Haag: Stones Don't Float   1995—Fatima Lin-Wilson: Crossing the Snow Bridge 1994—David Young: Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan   1993—Bruce Beasley: The Creation   1992—Dionisio Martinez: History as a Second Language   1991—Teresa Cader: Guests   1990—Mary Cross: Rooms, Which Were People   1989—Albert Goldbarth: Popular Culture 1988—Sue Owen: The Book of Winter   1987—Robert Cording: Life-list Cider Press Review Book Award (Cider Press Review) 2006—Anne Caston: Judah's Lion 2005—Don Colburn: As If Gravity Were a Theory 2004—Carla Panciera: One of the Cimalores Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing/Colorado Review) 2007—Craig Morgan Teicher: Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems 2006—Jaswinder Bolina: carrier wave 2005—Karen Garthe: Frayed Escort 2004—Rusty Morrison: Whethering 2003—G. C. Waldrep: Goldbeater's Skin 2002—Robyn Ewing: Chemical Wedding 2001—Geoffrey Nutter: A Summer Evening 2000—Sally Keith: Design 1999—Stephen Burt: Popular Music 1998—Michael White: Palma Cathedral 1997—Catherine Webster: The Thicket Daybreak 1996—Bruce Beasley: Summer Mystagogia 1995—Dean Young: Strike Anywhere Crab Orchard Series First Book Award (Crab Orchard Review/S. Illinois UP) 2006—Mary Jo Firth Gillett: Soluble Fish 2005—Jennifer Maier: Dark Alphabet 2004—A. Loudermilk: Strange Valentine 2003—Amy Fleury: Beautiful Trouble 2002—Chad Davidson: Consolation Miracle 2001—Joelle Biele: White Summer 2000—Vandana Khanna: Train to Agra Crab Orchard Series Open Book Award (Crab Orchard Review/S. Illinois UP) 2006—Moira Linehan: If No Moon 2006—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Red Clay Suite 2005—David Hernandez: Always Danger 2005—Susan B.A. Somers-Willett: Roam 2004—Greg Pape: American Flamingo 2004—Victoria Chang: Circle 2003—Lee Ann Roripaugh: Year of the Snake 2003—Jon Pineda: Birthmark 2002—Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: Becoming Ebony 2002—Elton Glaser: Pelican Tracks 2001—Susan Aizenberg: Muse 2001—Joy Katz: Fabulae 2000—Oliver de la Paz: Names Above Houses 2000—Julianna Baggott: This Country of Mothers 2000—J. Allyn Rosser: Misery Prefigured 1999—Elton Glaser: Winter Amnesties 1999—Marilene Phipps: Crossroads and Unholy Water 1998—Richard Cecil: In Search of the Great Dead 1998—Denise Duhamel: Star-Spangled Banner CSU Poetry Center First Book Prize (CSU Poetry Center) 2006—Barbara Presnell: Mill 2005—Christopher Burawa: The Small Mystery of Lapses 2003—Mary Quade: Guide to Native Beasts 2002—Eliot Khalil Wilson: The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go CSU Poetry Center Open Book Prize (CSU Poetry Center) 2006—Sam Witt: Sunflower Brother 2005—Max Garland: Favor to the Fountain 2003—Douglas Goetsch: The Job of Being Everybody 2002—Sarah Kennedy: Double Exposure