CONTEST-WINNING BOOKS: N

Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award (Lotus Press)
2006—Remica L. Bingham: Conversion
2005—Carolyn Beard Whitlow: Vanished
2004—Anthony A. Lee: This Poem Means
2003—Mendi Lewis Obadike: Armor and Flesh
2002—Monifa A. Love: Dreaming Underground
2001—Peggy Ann Tartt: Among Bones
2000—James R. Whitley: Immersion
1999—Jerry Wemple: You Can See It From Here
1998—Ruth Elen Kocher: Desdemona's Fire
1997—Claude Wilkinson: Reading the Earth
1996—Bill Harris: Yardbird Suite: Side One: 1920 1940
1995—Bruce A. Jacobs: Speaking Through My Skin
1994—Beverly V. Head: Walking North
1993—Adam David Miller: Forever Afternoon

National Poetry Book Award (Salmon Run Press)
2002—Rhina Espaillat: Playing at Stillness
2000—C.B. Follett: At the Turning of the Light
1999—Moore Moran: Firebreaks
1998—Dixie Salazar: Reincarnation of the Commonplace
1997—Daniel Bourne: On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe

National Poetry Review Book Prize (National Poetry Review)
2006—Bryan Penberthy: Lucktown

National Poetry Series
2006—Laynie Browne: The Scented Fox
2006—Noah Eli Gordon: Novel Pictorial Noise
2006—Laurie Clements Lambeth: Veil and Burn
2006—Martha Ronk: Vertigo
2006—William Stobb: Nervous Systems
2005—Steve Gehrke: Michelangelo's Seizure
2005—Nadine Meyer: The Anatomy Theater
2005—Patricia Smith: Teahouse of the Almighty
2005—S.A. Stepanek: Three, Breathing
2005—Tryfon Tolides: An Almost Pure Empty Walking
2004—David Friedman: The Welcome
2004—Tyehimba Jess: Leadbelly
2004—Corinne Lee: PYX
2004—Ange Mlinko: A Book Called Odile
2004—Camille Norton: Corruption
2003—Stephen Cramer: Shiva's Drum
2003—Andrew Feld: Citizen
2003—Raymond McDaniel: Entrance to Murder and After
2003—John Spaulding: The White Train: Poems from Photographs
2003—Mark Yakich: Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross
2002—Julie Kane: Rhythm & Booze
2002—William Keckler: Sanskrit of the Body
2002—Eleni Sikelianos: Footnotes to the Lambs
2002—Gabriel Spera: The Standing Wave
2002—Meredith Stricker: Tenderness Shore
2000—Jean Donnelly: Anthem
2000—Susan Atefat Peckham: That Kind of Sleep
2000—Spencer Short: Tremolo
2000—Rebecca Wolff: Manderley
2000—Susan Wood: Asunder
1999—Tenaya Darlington: Madame Deluxe
1999—Eugene Gloria: Drivers at the Short-Time Motel
1999—Corey Marks: Renunciation
1999—Dionisio Martinez: Climbing Back
1999—Standard Schaefer: Nova
1998—Rigoberto Gonzalez: So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks
1998—Harry Humes: Ghost Pain
1998—Joan Murray: Looking for the Parade
1998—Ed Roberson: Atmosphere Conditions
1998—Lee Ann Roripaugh: Beyond Heart Mountain
1997—Sandra Alcosser: Except By Nature
1997—Martine Bellen: Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems
1997—Robert Gibb: The Origins of Evening
1997—Lisa Lewis: Silent Treatment
1997—Heather Ramsdell: Lost Wax
1996—Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Placebo Effects
1996—A. V. Christie: Nine Skies
1996—Jeff Clark: The Little Door Slides Back
1996—Barbara Cully: The New Intimacy
1996—Mary Leader: Red Signature
1995—Heather Allen: Leaving a Shadow
1995—Marcus Cafagna: The Broken World
1995—Daniel Hall: Strange Relations
1995—Juliana Spahr: Response
1995—Karen Volkman: Crash's Law
1994—Erin Belieu: Infanta
1994—Pam Rehm: To Give It Up
1994—Matthew Rohrer: A Hummock in the Malookas
1994—Elizabeth Willis: The Human Abstract
1994—Samn Stockwell: Theater of Animals
1993—Rafael Campo: The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
1993—Kevin Young: Most Way Home
1993—Karen Swenson: The Landlady in Bangkok and Other Poems
1993—Rachel Wetzteon: The Other Stars
1993—Martin Edmunds: The High Road to Taos
1992—Terry Ehret: Lost Body
1992—Gerald Burns: Shorter Poems
1992—Mark Levine: Debt
1992—Lawrence Raab: What We Don't Know About Each Other
1992—Mark Doty: My Alexandria
1991—David Romtvedt: A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know
1991—Judith Hall: To Put the Mouth To
1991—James Richardson: As If
1991—Stuart Dischell: Good Hope Road
1991—Lynn Emmanuel: The Dig
1990—John Balaban: Words For My Daughter
1990—Billy Collins: Questions About Angels
1990—Thylias Moss: Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky
1990—Roger Fanning: The Island Itself
1990—Laura Mullen: The Surface
1989—Thomas Centolella: Terra Firma
1989—Carol Snow: Artist and Model
1989—Tom Andrews: The Brother's Country
1989—David Clewell: Blessings in Disguise
1989—Roland Flint: Stubborn
1988—Emily Hiestand: Green The Witch Hazel Wood
1988—David Mura: After We Lost Our Way
1988—Len Roberts: Black Wings
1988—Lee Upton: No Mercy
1988—Paul Zimmer: The Great Bird of Love
1987—Jeffrey Skinner: A Guide to Forgetting
1987—Jeffrey Harrison: The Singing Underneath
1987—Marie Howe: The Good Thief
1987—Cole Swenson: New Math
1987—William Olsen: The Hand of God And A Few Bright Flowers
1986—John Engels: Cardinals in the Ice Age
1986—Charlie Smith: Red Roads
1986—Barbara Anderson: Junk City
1986—Mark Halliday: Little Star
1986—Sylvia Moss: Cities in Motion
1985—Jack Myers: As Long As You're Happy
1985—Lynn Doyle: Living Gloves
1985—Reginald Gibbons: Saints
1985—Stephen Dunn: Local Time
1985—Alice Fulton: Palladium
1984—Robert L:  Jones: Wild Onion
1984—Kathy Fagan: The Raft
1984—Amy Bartlett: Afterwards
1984—Bruce Smith: Silver & Information
1984—Nathaniel Mackey: Eroding Witness
1983—Wendy Battin: In the Solar Wind
1983—Ronald Johnson: Ark 50
1983—James Galvin: God's Mistress
1983—Mary Fell: The Persistence of Memory
1983—Stephen Dobyns: Black Dog, Red Dog
1982—Jane Miller: The Greater Leisures
1982—Joanne Kyger: Selected Poems 1958-1980
1982—Donald Revell: From the Abandoned Cities
1982—Susan Tichy: Hands in Exile
1982—John Yau: Corpse and Mirror
1981—Sherod Santos: Accidental Weather
1981—Naomi Shihab Nye: Hugging the Jukebox
1981—Jonathan Aaron: Second Sight
1981—Denis Johnson: The Incognito Lounge
1981—Cyrus Cassells: The Mud Actor
1980—George Barlow: Gumbo
1980—Larry Levis: The Dollmakers Ghost
1980—Robert Peterson: Leaving Taos
1980—Reg Saner: So This Is the Map
1980—Michael Ryan: In Winter
1979—Joseph Langland: Any Body's Song
1979—Wendy Salinger: Folly River
1979—Sterling Brown: Selected Poems
1979—Ronald Perry: Denizens
1979—Roberta Spear: Silks

Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas (Publisher Varies)
2007—Kade L. Twist: Amazing Grace
2006—Rebecca Hatcher Travis: Picked Apart the Bones
2005—Kim Shuck: Smuggling Cherokee
2004—Christina M. Castro: Silence on the Rez
2004—Cathy Ruiz: Stirring up the Water
2003—Marlon D. Sherman: Wild Plums
2002—Renee Matthew: Down River From Here
2002—Phillip Caroll Morgan: The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
2001—Suzanne Rancourt: Billboard in the Clouds
2000—Karenne Wood: Markings on Earth
1999—Janet McAdams: The Island of Lost Luggage
1998—Jennifer K. Greene: What I Keep
1997—Deborah A. Miranda: Indian Cartography
1996—Charles G. Ballard: Winter Count Poems
1995—Denise Sweet: Songs for Discharming
1994—Tiffany Midge: Outlaws, Renegades and Saints
1993—Kimberly Blaeser: Trailing You
1992—Gloria Bird: Full Moon on the Reservation
1992—Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya: Making Holes

New Criterion Prize (The New Criterion/Ivan R. Dee)
2007—J. Allyn Rosser: Foiled Again
2006—Bill Coyle: The God of This World to His Prophet
2005—Geoffrey Brock: Weighing Light
2003—Deborah Warren: Zero Meridian
2002—Charles Tomlinson: Sky-Writing and Other Poems
2001—Adam Kirsch: The Thousand Wells
2000—Donald Petersen: Early and Late

New England/New York Award (Alice James Books)
2005—Cynthia Cruz: Ruin
2005—Jean-Paul Pecqueur: The Case Against Happiness
2004—Kazim Ali: The Far Mosque
2004—Lesle Lewis: Landscapes I & II
2003—Sarah Gambito: Matadora
2003—Kevin Goodan: In the Ghost-House Acquainted
2002—Adrian Matejka: The Devil's Garden
2002—Jon Woodward: Mister Goodbye Easter Island
2001—Jocelyn Emerson: Sea Gate
2001—Alessandra Lynch: Sails the Wind Left Behind
2000—Tom Thompson: Live Feed
2000—Ellen Doré Watson: Ladder Music
1999—Matthea Harvey: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
1998—Amy Dryansky: How I Got Lost So Close to Home
1998—Eric Gamalinda: Zero Gravity
1997—Lisa Sewell: The Way Out
1997—Janet Kaplan: The Groundnote

New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Press)
2007—Sandra Beasley: Theories of Falling
2006—Jason Bredle: Standing in Line for the Beast
2005—Katie Peterson: This One Tree
2004—Kevin Boyle: A Home for Wayward Girls
2003—Cynie Cory: American Girl
2003—Barbara Maloutas: In a Combination of Practices
2003—Louise Mathias: Lark Apprentice
2003—Bradley Paul: The Obvious
2003—Heidi Peppermint: Guess Can Gallop
2003—Ever Saskya: The Porch is a Journey Different from the House
2003—Matthew Thorburn: Subject to Change
2002—Paul Guest: The Resurrection of the Body and The Ruin of the World
2001—Sarah Mangold: Household Mechanics
2000—Elizabeth Powell: The Republic of Self
1999—Joy Manesiotis: They Sing to Her Bones
1998—Malena Mörling: Ocean Avenue
1997—Marsha de la O: Black Hope

Nightboat Poetry Prize (Nightboat Books)
2006—Jonathan Weinert: In the Mode of Disappearance
2005—Joshua Kryah: Glean
2004—Juliet Patterson: The Truant Lover