2005/06 Literary Awards in Poetry


Winner
Elizabeth Rees "Dig"

Finalists
Oceana Callum "Jeri-Dharma Makes You Eat It"
Elizabeth Rees "People of the World"
Melissa Jones Fiori "First Lines from My Unwritten Novels"
Charles Atkinson "How to Start Over"
Daniel Lusk "Geraniums" and "Fireproof Women"
Richard Wollman "Relativity in American, 1936"
Carolyn Moore "The Mad Hatter's Encore Tea Party"
Susan Thomas "Travels of the Empty Notebook"
Susan Firer "Hello Li Po"
D.M. Ross "Small Engine Repair"
Melanie Hubbard "Understanding Dark Energy"

D.A. Powell, the contest judge, is the author of three books of poetry, Tea (1998); Lunch (2000); and Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, among other awards. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco, and edits the online magazine Electronic Poetry Review.

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