Winners 2007 First Place: Luisa A. Igloria, Venom Second Place: Gail Thomas, Learning to Walk Again Third Place: Marianne Patty, The Only Mermaid on the Moon Finalists 2007 Robert Abbate, Tishbite Pottery Fragments Susan Elbe, Some Music Rebecca Foust, Strip Mine Jessica Garratt, Woman Drives Past, Crying Paula Goldman, If Dickinson Had a Husband and Wrote Villanelles Christine A. Gruber, When the Time Comes, I Wish to Die in June Terry Hertzler, Not Quite Deja Vu Michael Kriesel, Zen Amen Melody Lacina, Copy Editing the Catalogue Raisonne of George Inness Karen Lieneke, The Memory of Water Mark Minster, Krasnyi Ugol (The Beautiful Corner) Erin Murphy, City Birds Are Losing Their Songs Sean Nevin, The Black Carpenter Bee Robert Peake, Radish Jane B. Rawlings, Dawn, Leaving Venice Faith Shearin, Smoke Tana Jean Welch, Locusts Are Swarming Winners 2006 First Place: Jeanne Emmons, Polio Water in 1955 Second Place: Patrick Rosal, Poem for My Extra Nipple Third Place: Mariette Landry, Tanning Honorable Mention: Natalie Diaz, Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation Finalists 2006 Amanda Auchter, Dragonfly on Blue Agave Jacqueline Berger, The Routine After Forty Arlene Distler, Cleaning the Octopus Stephen Larson, Coming Back for the Horses Michael Lauchlan, Writing the Light Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Vigils Jeffrey Ethan Lee, After she said, “You can work around me” somehow he knew Jasmine Paul, one girl’s winter Pamela Porter, Unpacking Margaret Rabb, Triassic Escarpment Susan Rich, Self-Portrait with Trampoline Helen Klein Ross, Sitting Backward, We Move Unstoppably Forward Victoria Sloan, Orbweaver Wyatt Townley, Striptease Winners 2005 First Place: Joyce Thomas, Fishes Second Place: Timothy Walsh, Blue Lace Colander Third Place: Kelli Russel Agodon, Z to A: Secret Confessions of an Alphabet Junkie Honorable Mention: Annette Spaulding-Convy, I bring my newborn to the convent Honorable Mention: Kristen Tracy, Sometimes this Happens Finalists 2005 Roy Bentley, Woman and Alligator J. Lorraine Brown, Intermission at a Reading by Galway Kinnell Deborah DeNicola, Gauguin’s Red Linda Dove, Labor Day Pie Raynette Eitel, Melanoma Butterfly Jim Fisher, At the Biotech Party Mary Fitzpatrick, The Cure Albert Garcia, The Sea of Galilee and the Sacramento River Steve Gehrke, Renoir, Arthritic Alex Grant, Beginning Poet Critique Kenneth Hart, Tick Ian Christopher Hooper, Formula on a White and Empty Page Una Nichols Hynum, Genealogy of War David James, The Poet Chokes Himself Up Jeffrey Ethan Lee, After a Painting by Antonio Salemme (1892-1995) James P. Lenfestey, She who thinks like a fish thinks Elizabeth M. Maloney, Praying for Maintenance Arthur McMaster, Interior Rhymes Maureen McQuerry, Grace Nadine Meyer, Over Vitebsk Kevin Nance, Smoke Evan Oakley, My Deaf Man Glenn Pape, Belly Elisa Pulido, Trogloditophobia Sheila Harken Rosecrans, A Bookstore on Valencia Street Diane Seuss, In Search of the Molecular Structure of Benzene Rachel M. Simon, Rules of Poetry Andrew Sofer, Picasso’s Saltimbanques Michael Spence, Alien in Allentown Shirley Stephenson, Handling Protocol Ted Taylor, Haephestus Patti White, Laika Winners 2004 First Place: Andrea Potos, Each Self Second Place: Angela Narciso Torres, Thursdays After Dinner at L’amie Donia Third Place: Marea Gordett, Autistic Child in the Day School Finalists 2004 Nathalie F. Anderson, Squeeze Brittney C. Blaskowitz, Mistress Mango Cindhy Briano, You Make Love Like a Pinball Machine Deborah Brown, How She Lived John P. Buentello, Father Found in the Rending Room Rachel Dacus, Drake’s Estero, Point Reyes Frank Eannarino, Social Work Deborah Fries, Arriving at X Kate Gray, Turquoise Sestina Peter Klein, The Trapeze Artist Resigns Elline Lipkin, Philomela’s Tongue Eileen Malone, Words with Taloned Claws Mario René Padilla, Once, I Wanted to be Richie Vallens Stephen R. Porter, corn Joseph Sabado, Yellow Light Farnoosh Seifoddini, Pre-Maternity Tamara Kaye Sellman, Stubborn Tourist Winners 2003 First Place: Derek Sheffield, Ornithology 101 Second Place: Ellen Bass, Discovering Fire Third Place: Lilian Crutchfield, Gayle, Descending Honorable Mention: Emmy Pérez, Ghazal For Los Muertos Honorable Mention: John E. Smelcer, After a Sermon at the Church of Infinite Confusion Finalists 2003 Elinor Benedict, Mother by Moonlight F.J. Bergmann, An Apology Margaret J. Hoehn, Georgia O’Keeffe Writers Her Friends: “I Won’t Return to New York” Angela Kelly, In the Kitchen Jim McGarrah, Generation Gap Cynthia L. Monroe, The Sculptor’s Model Ander Monson, Cancer Season Susan Azar Porterfield, Kibbe Noelle Rydell, Adulteress in Autumn Trey Selma, The Arabic Script J. Shipley, Breath David Shumate, Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night Beth Copeland Vargo, Canzone Amanda Walter, Ladies’ War Carolyne Wright, Blue Mitosis Winners 2002 First Place: Ann Hunkins, Eating Meat Second Place: Lynda Skeen, Oyster-Shucking Contest Third Place: Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, Aesthetics and Politics Honorable Mention: Allison Joseph, A History of African-American Hair Honorable Mention: Michael Larson, Aquinas at the Last Finalists 2002 Curtis Bauer, Landscape with Leaves Andrea Carter Brown, The Robin’s Nest Melanie Drane, Angioplasty James Hall, Chopin’s Prelude in E-minor Karin Hoffecker, Geisha Christina Hutchins, The Poet to Her Poems Susan Kelly-DeWitt, My Mother at Evening Diane Lockward, Eating my Words Mary Makofske, In a Book on Neolithic Wounds Barbara M. Seagle, Generic Winners 2001 First Place: Jeffrey Levine, Mazurka Second Place: Salita Bryant, Damage Third Place: Debra Marquart, Within Moments Finalists 2001 Lisa Marie Brodsky, Birds in the Mediterranean Speak Like Syrup Karen E. Drayne, Wedding Negatives Susan Firer, Hsuan T’sao Deborah Fries, Photo of Father as Cowboy Ralph Frongillo, Private Place Ross Gay, Alzheimer’s Ann Hudson, Galileo Explains Why Aristotle Was Wrong About the Heavens A. Van Jordan, Notes From a Southpaw Richard Levine, Touch the Safe Kwala Mandel, Angola David Martin, Saturday Night, 1976 James McGarrah, Black Ice Andrew Mulvania, Blackberry-Picking Kristin Naca, What I Don’t Tell My Children About the Philippines Nancy Nicodemus, Grandmother Maude’s Diary Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville Continues his Classical Education in the South Seas Lucy Warlick, Guilt
 
James Hearst Poetry Prize Winners