AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: D

Dadaelian Poetry Award (Texas Institute of Letters)
1965—Roger Shattuck: Half Tame
1964—Thomas Whitbread: Four Infinitives
1963—Vassar Miller: My Bones Being Wiser
1962—Frederic Will: A Wedge of Words
1961—Walter E. Kidd: Time Turns West
1960—Vassar Miller: Wage War on Silence
1959—Ramsey Yelvington: A Cloud of Witnesses
1957—Eloise Roach: Platero and I
1956—Vassar Miller: Adam's Footprint
1955—William D. Barney: Permitted Proof
1954—William Burford: Man Now
1953—Robert Lee Brothers: The Hidden Harp
1952—William D. Barney: Kneel to the Stone
1951—Arthur M. Sampley: Furrow With Blackbirds
1950—Mary Poole: Being in Night
1949—Frances Alexander: Time at the Window
1948—Vaida S. Montgomery: Hail for Rain
1947—Arthur M. Sampley: Of the Strong and the Fleet
1946—Whitney Montgomery: Joseph's Coat
1945—David Russell: Sing with Me Now

Devil's Kitchen Reading Award (Southern Illinois University)
2006—Susanna Childress: Jagged with Love
2005—James Richardson: Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms