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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: N Natalie Ornish Award (Texas Institute of Letters) 2005—William Wenthe: Not Till We Are Lost 2004—John Blair: The Green Girls 2004—Jennifer Grotz: Cusp 2003—Dan Rifenburgh: Advent 2002—Ted Genoways: Bullroarer 2001—Corey Marks: Renunciation 2000—Walt McDonald: Whatever the Wind Delivers 1999—B.H. Fairchild: The Art of the Lathe 1998—Bruce Bond: Radiography 1997—Isabel Nathaniel: The Dominion of Light 1996—Betty Adcock: The Difficult Wheel 1995—Pattiann Rogers: Firekeeper 1994—Jack Myers: Blindsided 1992—Susan Wood: Campo Santo National Book Award (National Book Foundation) 2006—Nathaniel Mackey: Splay Anthem 2005—W.S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems 2004—Jean Valentine: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003   2003—C. K. Williams: The Singing 2002—Ruth Stone: In the Next Galaxy 2001—Alan Dugan: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 2000—Lucille Clifton: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 1999—Ai: Vice: New & Selected Poems 1998—Gerald Stern: This Time: New and Selected Poems 1997—William Meredith: Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems 1996—Hayden Carruth: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995 1995—Stanley Kunitz: Passing Through 1994—James Tate: Worshipful Company of Fletchers 1993—A. R. Ammons: Garbage 1992—Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems 1991—Philip Levine: What Work Is 1983—Galway Kinnell: Selected Poems 1983—Charles Wright: Country Music: Selected Early Poems 1982—William Bronk: Life Supports: New and Collected Poems 1981—Lisel Mueller: The Need to Hold Still 1980—Philip Levine: Ashes 1979—James Merrill: Mirabell: Book of Numbers 1978—Howard Nemerov: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov 1977—Richard Eberhart: Collected Poems, 1930-1976 1976—John Ashbery: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror 1975—Marilyn Hacker: Presentation Piece 1974—Allen Ginsberg: The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971   1974—Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 1973—A. R. Ammons: Collected Poems, 1951-1971 1972—Howard Moss: Selected Poems   1972—Frank O'Hara: The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara 1971—Mona Van Duyn: To See, To Take 1970—Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1969—John Berryman: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest   1968—Robert Bly: The Light Around the Body   1967—James Merrill: Nights and Days 1966—James Dickey: Buckdancer's Choice: Poems 1965—Theodore Roethke: The Far Field 1964—John Crowe Ransom: Selected Poems   1963—William Stafford: Traveling Through the Dark 1962—Alan Dugan: Poems 1961—Randall Jarrell: The Woman at the Washington Zoo 1960—Robert Lowell: Life Studies   1959—Theodore Roethke: Words for the Wind 1958—Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 1957—Richard Wilbur: Things of the World 1956—W.H. Auden: The Shield of Achilles 1955—Wallace Stevens: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens 1954—Conrad Aiken: Collected Poems 1953—Archibald MacLeish: Collected Poems, 1917-1952 1952—Marianne Moore: Collected Poems 1951—Wallace Stevens: The Auroras of Autumn 1950—William Carlos Williams: Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems National Book Critics Circle Award (National Book Critics Circle) 2006—Troy Jollimore: Tom Thomson in Purgatory 2005—Jack Gilbert: Refusing Heaven 2004—Adrienne Rich: The School Among the Ruins 2003—Susan Stewart: Columbarium 2002—B.H. Fairchild: Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest 2001—Albert Goldbarth: Saving Lives: Poems 2000—Judy Jordan: Carolina Ghost Woods 1999—Ruth Stone: Ordinary Words 1998—Marie Ponsot: The Bird Catcher 1997—Charles Wright: Black Zodiac 1996—Robert Hass: Sun Under Wood 1995—William Matthews: Time & Money 1994—Mark Rudman: Rider 1993—Mark Doty: My Alexandria 1992—Hayden Carruth: Collected Shorter Poems 1991—Albert Goldbarth: Heaven and Earth 1990—Amy Gerstler: Bitter Angel 1989—Rodney Jones: Transparent Gestures 1988—Donald Hall: That One Day 1987—C. K. Williams: Flesh and Blood 1986—Edward Hirsch: Wild Gratitude 1985—Louise Gluck: The Triumph of Achilles 1984—Sharon Olds: The Dead and the Living 1983—James Merrill: The Changing Light at Sandover 1982—Katha Pollitt: Antarctic Traveler 1981—A. R. Ammons: A Coast of Trees Nebraska Book Award (Nebraska Center for the Book) 2006—Aaron Anstett: No Accident 2005—Barbara Schmitz: How Much Our Dancing Has Improved 2004—Twyla Hansen: Potato Soup 2003—Susan Aizenberg: Muse 2002—Ted Genoways: Bullroarer: A Sequence 2001—Ted Kooser: Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison 2000—Marjorie Saiser: Bones of a Very Fine Hand New Yorker Book Award (The New Yorker) 1999—Louise Glück: Vita Nova Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America) 2007—Kate Colby: Fruitlands 2006—Cammy Thomas: Cathedral of Wish 2005—Karen An-hwei Lee: In Medias Res 2004—Brenda Coultas: A Handmade Museum 2003—Sean Singer: Discography 2002—Jennifer Michael Hecht: The Next Ancient World 2001—Penelope Pelizzon: Nostos 2000—Lisa Lubasch: How Many More of Them Are You? 1999—Hettie Jones: Drive 1998—Rebecca Reynolds: Daughter of the Hangnail 1997—Susan Yuzna: Her Slender Dress 1996—Barbara Hamby: Delirium 1995—Sophie Cabot Black: A Misunderstanding of Nature Northern California Book Award [formerly Bay Area Book Award] (Northern California Book Reviewers) 2006—Nathaniel Mackey: Splay Anthem 2005—Brian Turner: Here, Bullet 2004—Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Americus I 2003—Suji Kwock Kim: Notes from the Divided Country 2002—Jack Marshall: Gorgeous Chaos: New & Selected Poems 1965-2001 2001—Jane Hirshfield: Given Sugar, Given Salt 2000—Forrest Hamer: Middle Ear 1999—Michael McClure: Touching the Edge 1998—Jacqueline Berger: The Mythologies of Danger 1997—Diana O'Hehir: Spells For Not Dying Again 1996—William Dickey: The Education of Desire 1995—Czeslaw Milosz: Facing the River 1994—Jane Hirshfield: The October Palace 1993—Brenda Hillman: Bright Existence 1992—Thom Gunn: The Man with Night Sweats 1991—Czeslaw Milosz: Provinces: Poems 1987-1991 1990—Thomas Centolella: Terra Firma 1989—Adrienne Rich: Time's Power 1988—Philip Levine: A Walk with Tom Jefferson 1987—Edward Kleinschmidt: Magnetism 1986—William Dickey: The King of the Golden River 1985—August Kleinzahler: Storm Over Hackensack 1984—Czeslaw Milosz: The Separate Notebooks 1983—Jack Marshal: Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise 1982—Thom Gunn: The Passages of Joy