Award Winners for Poetry

Winners from 2012

• Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney, published by Northwestern University Press
•  (Winner of Category)
• Things I Say To Pirates On Nights When I Miss You, Keely Hyslop, published by Fourteen Hills Press (Winner of Category)

Finalists

• Birdland, Kathy  McTavish, published by Wildwood River Press
• Cloud Birds, Sheila Packa, published by Wildwood River Press
• In The Silence Of The Unspoken, S. Anne Gardner, published by Affinity EBook Press NZ Ltd

Winners from 2011

• Echo & Lightning by  Sheila Packa, published by  Wildwood River Press  (Winner of Category)
• White Shirt by  Laurie MacFayden, published by  Frontenac House  (Winner of Category)

Finalists

• Handmade Love by  Julie Enszer, published by  A Midsummer Night’s Press
• The Window Into One’s Soul by  Sutton, Blackhawk, Carbinela, DK, published by  L-Book

Winners from 2010

• Bird Eating Bird by Kristin Naca,  published by Harper  (Winner of Category)
• In Praise of Falling by Cheryl Dumesnil, published by University of Pittsburgh Press  (Winner of Category)
• The Heart’s Traffic by Ching-in Chen, published by Arktoi Books  (Winner of Category)

Finalists

• A by Sophie Robinson, published by Les Figues Press
• Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen by Maureen Seaton, published by Carnegie Mellon Press
• Diminuendo by Emily Reed, published by Blue Feather Books
• Tryst by Angie Estes, published by Oberlin College Press
• When It Happens To You by Alice Teeter, published by Star Cloud Press

Winners from 2008

• The Human Line by Ellen Bass, published by Copper Canyon Press
• The Islands Project by  Eloise Klein Healy, published by Red Hen Press
• Torch River by Elizabeth Philips, published by Brick Books