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home programs publishers contests opportunities resources site map contact             CONTEST-WINNING BOOKS: W Walt McDonald Prize (Texas Tech University Press) 2007—Philip White: The Clearing 2006—Thom Satterlee: Burning Wyclif 2005—Mark Sullivan: Slag 2004—Catherine Tufariello: Keeping My Name 2003—Gregory Fraser: Strange Pietà 2002—April Linder: Skin 2001—Rick Campbell: Setting the World in Order 2000—Miriam Vermiya: Heartwood 1999—Janice Whittington: Into a Thousand Mouths 1998—Cathryn Essinger: A Desk in the Elephant House 1997—Margaret Benbow: Stalking Joy 1996—Laura Fargas: An Animal of the Sixth Day 1995—Deborah Burnham: Anna and the Steel Mill 1994—Shelly Wagner: The Andrew Poems 1993—Laurie Kutchins: Between Towns 1992—Cathy Smith Bowers: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas Walt Whitman Award (Academy of American Poets) 2007—Sally Van Doren: Sex at Noon Taxes 2006—Anne Pierson Wiese: Floating City 2005—Mary Rose O'Reilley: Half Wild 2004—Geri Doran: Resin 2003—Tony Tost: Invisible Bride 2002—Sue Kwock Kim: Notes from the Divided Country 2001—John Canaday: The Invisible World 2000—Ben Doyle: Radio, Radio 1999—Judy Jordan: Carolina Ghost Woods 1998—Jan Heller Levi: Once I Gazed at You in Wonder 1997—Barbara Ras: Bite Every Sorrow 1996—Joshua Clover: Madonna anno domini 1995—Nicole Cooley: Resurrection 1994—Jan Richman: Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything 1993—Alison Hawthorne Deming: Science and Other Poems 1992—Stephen Yenser: The Fire in All Things 1991—Greg Glazner: From the Iron Chair 1990—Elaine Terranova: The Cult of the Right Hand 1989—Martha Hollander: The Game of Statues 1988—April Bernard: Blackbird Bye Bye 1987—Judith Baumel: The Weight of Numbers 1986—Chris Llewellyn: Fragments from the Fire 1985—Christianne Balk: Bindweed 1984—Eric Pankey: For the New Year 1983—Christopher Gilbert: Across the Mutual Landscape 1982—Anthony Petrosky: Jurgis Petraskas 1981—Alberto Ríos: Whispering to Fool the Wind 1980—Jared Carter: Work, for the Night is Coming 1979—David Bottoms: Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump 1978—Karen Snow: Wonders 1977—Lauren Shakely: Guilty Bystander 1976—Laura Gilpin: The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe 1975—Reg Saner: Climbing into the Roots Washington Prize (Word Works) 2007—Prartho Sereno: Call from Paris 2006—John Surowiecki: The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats 2005—Richard Lyons: Fleur Carnivore 2004—Carrie Bennett: Biography of Water 2003—Ron Mohring: Survivable World 2002—Miles Waggener: Phoenix Suites 2001—Michael Atkinson: One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train 2000—Charlotte Gould Warren: Gandhi's Lap 1999—Peter Blair: Last Heat 1998—Nathalie F. Anderson: Following Fred Astaire 1997—Ann Rae Jonas: A Diamond Is Hard but not Tough 1996—George Young: Spinoza's Mouse 1995—Linda Lee Harper: Toward Desire 1994—Jay Rogoff: The Cutoff 1993—Fred Marchant: Tipping Point 1992—Nancy White: Sun, Moon, Salt 1991—Elaine Magarrell: Blameless Lives 1990—Barbara Moore: Farewell to the Body 1989—John Bradley: Love-In-Idleness 1988—Christopher Bursk: The Way Water Rubs Stone 1987—Enid Shomer: Stalking the Florida Panther Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize (Washington Writers' Publishing House) 2007—Bruce MacKinnon: Mystery Schools 2006—Carly Sachs: the steam sequence 2005—Piotr Gwiazda: Gagarin Street 2005—Patric Pepper: Temporary Apprehensions 2004—Moira Egan: Cleave 2003—Katherine Smith: Argument by Design  2002—Anne Sheldon: Hero-Surfing  2001—Margaret Weaver: Escaping Words 2001—Bernard Jankowski: The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns  2000—Jane Satterfield: Shepherdess with an Automatic  2000—Dean Smith: American Boy  1999—Catherine Harnett Shaw: Evidence  1998—Ramola D: Invisible Season  1998—Ned Balbo: Galileo's Banquet  1997—Nancy Carlson: Kings Highway  1997—Sid Gold: Working Vocabulary  1995—Jane Schapiro: Tapping This Stone  1995—Dan Johnson: Come Looking  1994—Paul Haenel: Farewell, Goodbye, Wave Goodbye  1994—Kim Roberts: The Wishbone Galaxy  1993—Barri Armitage: Double Helix  1993—Elaine Upton: Children of Apartness  1992—Joseph Thackery: The Dark Above Mad River  1992—Naomi Thiérs: Only the Raw Hands are Heaven  1991—Nan Fry: Relearning the Dark  1991—Laura Brylawski-Miller: The Snow on Lake Como  1990—Elisabeth Murawski: Moon and Mercury 1990—Patricia Garfinkel: From the Red Eye of Jupiter  1989—Sharon Negri: The Other Side of Now  1989—Martin Galvin: Wild Card  1988—Maxine Clair: Coping with Gravity 1988—Ann Knox: Stonecrop 1987—Myra Sklarew: Altamira  1987—Jean Nordhaus: A Bracelet of Lies  1986—Barbara Lefcowitz: The Queen of Lost Baggage  1986—Ann Darr: Do You Take This Woman … 1985—David McAleavey: Holding Obsidian  1985—Elaine Magarrell: On Hogback Mountain 1984—Eric Nelson: The Light Bringers  1984—Paul Estaver: Salisbury Beach, 1954  1984—Catherine Harnett Shaw: Still Life  1982—Elisavietta Ritchie: Raking the Snow  1982—Mary Ann Larkin: The Coil of the Skin 1982—Hastings Wyman: Certain Patterns  1981—Beate Goldman: Letters to a Stranger 1981— Judith Harris: Poppies 1981—May Miller: Halfway to the Sun  1980—Greg Hannan: Instincts for the Jugular  1980—Gray Jacobik: Sandpainting  1980—David Bristol: Paradise & Cash  1979—Shirley Cochrane: Burnsite 1979—Catherine O’Neill Grace: The Daffodil Farmer  1979—Beth Joselow: Gypsies 1978—E. Ethelbert Miller: Migrant Worker 1978—Patrick L. Clary: Notes for a Loveletter  1978—Katharine Edgar Cobey: Thrift  1977—Robert Sargent: Now is Always the Miraculous Time 1977—Harrison Fisher: The Gravity  1977—Ron Rodriguez: The Captains that Dogs Aren't  1977—John McNally: Northern Lights  1975—Terence Winch: Luncheonette Jealousy  1975—Grace Cavalieri: Why I Cannot Take a Lover  1975—Deirdra Baldwin: Gathering Time  White Pine Press Poetry Prize (White Pine Press) 2006—Jennifer Kwon Dobbs: Paper Pavilion 2005—Roy Bentley: The Trouble With a Short Horse in Montana 2004—George Looney: The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels 2003— Frances Richey: The Burning Point 2002—John Surowiecki: Watching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral 2001—Sandra Castillo: My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment 2000—Stephen Frech: If not for these wrinkles of darkness: Rembrandt, a self portrait 1999—David Keller: Trouble in History 1998—Joel Long: Winged Insects 1997—Jacqueline Johnson: A Gathering of Mother Tongues 1996—Deborah Gorlin: Bodily Course 1995—Nancy Johnson: Zoo & Cathedral Winnow Press First Book Award (Winnow Press) 2005—Barbara Tomash: Flying into Water 2004—Catherine Kasper: Field Stone Winnow Press Open Book Award (Winnow Press) 2004—Shanna Compton: Down Spooky