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Poetry & Fiction Winners

2003 Awards
Poetry:
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Co-Winner: |
Melisa Cahnmann |
"American Defense" |
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Co-Winner: |
Heidi Kelley |
"In the Waiting Room"; "Qué Sinvergüenza"; "Green is
the Color of Galician Death" |
2002 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Tracy Lewis |
"Meditación in and about Mbohapy Ñe’"; "Pax Nobiscum";
"Muse"; "Pride?"; "Ignoramus" |
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Second Place: |
Brian and Roberta Swann |
"Slugs"; "Soft Boiled Eggs" |
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Third Place: |
Debra Nystrom and Hushang Philsooph |
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2001 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Adrie Kusserow |
"Twenty-first Century Religiotropic" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Tope
Omoniyi |
"Gbomo
Gbomo" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Kent
Maynard |
"Rain, Again" |
1999 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Helen Frost |
"The
Corner of Clay and Berry" |
1998 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner:
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Adrie Kusserow |
"American Nomads"; "Hunting Down
the Monk"; "Picking the Streets, Kathmandu"; "Bulimia Religiosa"; "Learning Gods
–Buddha- Confession 31"; "No Gods Left" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Don Mitchell |
"John Brown's Body" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Eugene Mendonsa |
Blood on the Tractor |
1997 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Jim
Funaro |
"The Dancing Stones of Callanish" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Nancy Lindisfarne |
"The Tortoise" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Paul Johnson |
The Knife |
1996 Awards
Poetry:
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Co-Winner: |
Tara
Waters Lumpkin |
"The Mountaineer" |
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Co-Winner: |
Keith Smith |
"Palm Sunday"; "Good Friday" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Simone Isadora Flynn |
A
Feast of Mangoes |
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Honorable Mention: |
Bruce T. Grindal |
Is There a Light in My Eyes? |
1995 Awards
Poetry:
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Co-Winner: |
John
McCall |
"Motopark Beggars" |
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Co-Winner: |
Charles Underwood |
"Ethnography of the Unspoken" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Paul
Heinrich |
The Informant |
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Honorable Mention: |
C.
Springwater |
The Stories of Red Clay: Man of the Mesa |
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Honorable Mention: |
Linda Williamson |
Circle of White |
1994 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Charles Underwood |
"Oral History" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Loretta Orion |
The Siberian Shaman's Dress |
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Honorable Mention: |
Kirin Narayan |
Come Out And Serve |
1993 Awards
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Kate
Altork |
Working Norman's Birthday |
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Co-Winner: |
Maria Nieves Zedeno |
Saint versus the Hummingbird |
1992 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Kate Altork |
"Ocote" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Bill Holm |
"Vietnamese
Cooking in Reykjavik" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Edith Laurencin |
"and wah dey
give we?" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Miles Richardson |
"Sequin to
Guadalajara on Various Levels and in More Times Than I Can Count:
The Continuation of Lives Already Dead" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Raman Srinivasan |
"Museum" |
1991 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
John
F. Sherry, Jr. |
"Restoration Triptych"; "Too Far Afield"; "Local Custom [Field
Journal/Amsterdam Station]" |
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Second Prize Co-Winner: |
Martin F. Manalansan IV |
"New York City 1991: On the Margins of an Ethnography"; "(Dis)Other" |
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Second Prize Co-Winner: |
Kent
Maynard |
"Burying the Dead"; "Bamenda in Dry Season"; "Night Lights" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Caroline G. Banks |
"Lessons in Bipedalism" |
1990 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Charles F. Underwood |
"Third World Night"; "Los Muertos" |
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Second Prize: |
Jeanne Simonelli |
"Road Song I (Field Course 1989)"; "Road Songs II (Last Hike)";
"Guatemala 1990" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Catherine J. Allen |
"Old Griefs"; "Loss and the Academic Lizard" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Caroline G. Banks |
"Ode to Three Pillows" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Ward
H. Goodenough |
"Morning star" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Clive Kileff |
"A
White African Goes Home" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Vicki Levine |
"Duality" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Gabriel Seabrook |
"The Fount of Elysium" |
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Honorable Mention: |
John
F. Sherry |
"Gaea Descending" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Dwayne C. Turner |
"La Chica (Little Girl)" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Susan Scott-Stevens |
The Djinn Tree |
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Runner-up: |
Grant A. Olson |
The Switchmaster |
1989 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Stephanos Stephanides |
"Yet I Still Celebrate You Lotus of the Mud Flats"; "Sky of the Hearts
(Chidambaram)"; "The Sacrifice as in a Vision" |
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Second Prize: |
Micheal V Angrósino |
"Miss Anna Walks"; "At the Hotel Royal" |
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Third Prize: |
Mary
Courtis |
"A
Spiritual Kaleidoscope"; "Letting the Caged Bird Sing" |
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Honorable Mention: |
Clive Kileff |
"Paul, the blind driver" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Michael Hittman |
A
Pair of Aces and One Deuce |
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Honorable Mention: |
Martha B. Kendall |
The Nature of the Evidence |
1988 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Susan Landgraf |
"Kung Woman Lament"; "From an Interview with
Winnie Mandela"; "To an Astronaut from an Ancient on the Use of
Search Lights" |
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Second Prize: |
Catherine Tihanyi |
"Once upon a time, on the sparkling shores of
the Mediterranean"; "At Myth End" |
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Third Prize: |
Patricia Marshal |
"Ode to the Water Spirit"; "This is the Year" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
William Y. Adams |
"The Vision Quest" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Ernest Schusky |
Korean Exodus |
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Second Prize: |
Yesim Ternar |
Christians on
the Beach |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Catherine
Callaghan |
Ecket |
1987 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Gordon Lester-Massman |
"Mistakes in Paradise" |
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Runner-Up: |
Barbara J Micheal |
"Desert Scrub"; "Where" |
1986 Awards
Poetry:
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Winner: |
Anthony Leeds |
"We Shall Dry Our Eyes" |
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First Runner-Up: |
Dan Rose |
"We Discovered the Dancing Surfaces of Fire" |
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Second Runner-Up: |
Ivan Brady |
"cannibal-ism" |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Dennis Tedlock |
"Five Days from a Dream Almanac" |
Fiction:
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Winner: |
Barbara Tedlock |
Keeping the Breath Nearby |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Sarah Waldorf |
The Pig Men |
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