AWARD-WINNING BOOKS: W

Washington State Book Award [formerly Governor's Writers Award]
(Washington Center for the Book)
2006—Lucia Perillo: Luck Is Luck
2005—Christopher Howell: Light's Ladder
2005—Paul Hunter: Breaking Ground
2004—Chris Forhan: The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
2003—Tina Kelley: The Gospel of Galore
2002—Madeline DeFrees: Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001
2002—Carolyn Kizer: Cool: Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000
2000—Heather McHugh: The Father of the Predicaments
2000—Joan Swift: The Tiger Iris
2000—David Wagoner: Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
1999—Linda Andrews: Escape of the Bird Women
1999—Nance Van Winckel: After a Spell
1998—Linda Bierds: The Profile Makers
1997—Carolyn Kizer: Harping On: Poems 1985-1995
1993—Anita Endrezze: At the Helm of Twilight
1993—Tess Gallagher: Moon Crossing Bridge
1990—Naomi Clark: When I Kept Silence
1987—Raymond Carver: Ultramarine

Western States Book Award (Western States Arts Federation)
2001—Rebecca Seiferle: Bitters
2000—Peter Sears: The Brink
1999—Primus St. John: Communion
1998—Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge: Four Year Old Girl
1996—Gary Short: Flying Over Sonny Liston
1995—David Lee: My Town
1994—Luis Alberto Urrea: The Fever of Being
1993—Jane Miller: August Zero
1992—William Stafford: My Name is William Tell
1990—John Haines: New Poems: 1980-1988
1988—David Bromige: Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987
1986—Mary Barnard: Time and the White Tigress
1984—Nancy Mairs: In All the Rooms of the Yellow House
1984—Eve Triem: New as a Wave: A Retrospective, 1937-1983

William Carlos Williams Award (Poetry Society of America)
2007—Matthew Zapruder: The Pijamaist
2006—Brenda Hillman: Pieces of Air in the Epic
2005—Anne Winters: Displaced of Capital
2004—Anthony Butts: Little Low Heaven
2003—Gary Young: No Other Life
2002—Li-Young Lee: Book of My Nights
2001—Ralph J. Mills, Jr.: Grasses Standing
2000—Kathleen Peirce: The Oval Hour
1998—John Balaban: Edge of Summer
1997—David Ignatow: I Have a Name
1996—Josephine Jacobsen: In the Crevice of Time: New and Selected Poems
1995—Cyrus Cassells: Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
1994—David Ray: Wool Highways
1993—Louise Glück: The Wild Iris