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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: J James Laughlin Award (Academy of American Poets) 2006—Tracy K. Smith: Duende 2005—Barbara Jane Reyes: Poeta en San Francisco 2004—Jeff Clark: Music and Suicide 2003—Vijay Seshadri: The Long Meadow 2002—Karen Volkman: Spar 2001—Peter Johnson: Miracles & Mortifications 2000—Liz Waldner: A Point Is That Which Has No Part 1999—Tory Dent: HIV, Mon Amour 1998—Sandra Alcosser: Except by Nature 1997—Tony Hoagland: Donkey Gospel 1996—David Rivard: Wise Poison 1995—Ralph Angel: Neither World 1994—Brigit Pegeen Kelly: Song 1993—Rosanna Warren: Stained Glass 1992—Kathryn Stripling Byer: Wildwood Flower 1991—Susan Wood: Campo Santo 1990—Li-Young Lee: The City in Which I Love You 1989—Minnie Bruce Pratt: Crime Against Nature 1988—Mary Jo Salter: Unfinished Painting 1987—Garrett Kaoru Hongo: The River of Heaven 1986—Jane Shore: The Minute Hand 1985—Cornelius Eady: Victims of the Latest Dance Craze 1984—Philip Schultz: Deep Within the Ravine 1983—Sharon Olds: The Dead and the Living 1982—Margaret Gibson: Long Walks in the Afternoon 1981—Carolyn Forché: The Country Between Us 1980—Michael Van Walleghen: More Trouble with the Obvious 1979—Frederick Seidel: Sunrise 1978—Ai: Killing Floor 1977—Gerald Stern: Lucky Life 1976—Larry Levis: The Afterlife 1975—Lisel Mueller: The Private Life 1974—John Balaban: After Our War 1973—Marilyn Hacker: Presentation Piece 1972—Peter Everwine: Collecting the Animals 1971—Stephen Dobyns: Concurring Beasts 1970—William Harmon: Treasury Holiday 1969—Marvin Bell: A Probable Volume of Dreams 1968—Jane Cooper: The Weather of Six Mornings 1967—James Scully: The Marches 1966—Kenneth O. Hanson: The Distance Anywhere 1965—Henri Coulette: The War of the Secret Agents 1964—Adrien Stoutenberg: Heroes, Advise Us 1962—Edward Field: Stand Up, Friend, With Me 1961—X. J. Kennedy: Nude Descending a Staircase 1960—Robert Mezey: The Lovemaker 1959—Donald Justice: The Summer Anniversaries 1958—Ned O'Gorman: The Night of the Hammer 1957—Daniel Berrigan, S. J.: Time Without Number 1956—Philip Booth: Letter from a Distant Land 1955—Donald Hall: Exiles and Marriages 1954—Constance Carrier: The Middle Voice Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry (N.H. Writers' Project) 2005—Patricia Fargnoli: Duties of the Spirit 2003—L.R. Berger: The Unexpected Aviary 2003—Wesley McNair: Fire 2001—Cleopatra Mathis: What to Tip the Boatman? 1999—Cynthia Huntington: We Have Gone to the Beach 1997—Charles Simic: A Wedding in Hell