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Poetry & Fiction Winners

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2003 Awards

Poetry:

Co-Winner: Melisa Cahnmann "American Defense"
Co-Winner: Heidi Kelley "In the Waiting Room"; "Qué Sinvergüenza"; "Green is the Color of Galician Death"

 

2002 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Tracy Lewis "Meditación in and about Mbohapy Ñe’"; "Pax Nobiscum"; "Muse"; "Pride?"; "Ignoramus"
Second Place: Brian and Roberta Swann "Slugs"; "Soft Boiled Eggs"
Third Place: Debra Nystrom and Hushang Philsooph  

 

2001 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Adrie Kusserow "Twenty-first Century Religiotropic"
Honorable Mention: Tope Omoniyi "Gbomo Gbomo"
Honorable Mention: Kent Maynard "Rain, Again"

 

1999 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Helen Frost "The Corner of Clay and Berry"

 

1998 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

 

Adrie Kusserow "American Nomads"; "Hunting Down the Monk"; "Picking the Streets, Kathmandu"; "Bulimia Religiosa"; "Learning Gods –Buddha- Confession 31"; "No Gods Left"

Fiction:

 Winner: Don Mitchell "John Brown's Body"
Honorable Mention: Eugene Mendonsa Blood on the Tractor

 

1997 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

Jim Funaro "The Dancing Stones of Callanish"

Fiction:

Winner:

Nancy Lindisfarne

"The Tortoise"
Honorable Mention: Paul Johnson The Knife

 

1996 Awards

Poetry:

Co-Winner: Tara Waters Lumpkin "The Mountaineer"
Co-Winner: Keith Smith "Palm Sunday"; "Good Friday"

Fiction:

Winner: Simone Isadora Flynn A Feast of Mangoes
Honorable Mention: Bruce T. Grindal Is There a Light in My Eyes?

 

1995 Awards

Poetry:

Co-Winner: John McCall "Motopark Beggars"
Co-Winner: Charles Underwood "Ethnography of the Unspoken"

Fiction:

Winner: Paul Heinrich The Informant
Honorable Mention: C. Springwater The Stories of Red Clay: Man of the Mesa
Honorable Mention: Linda Williamson Circle of White

 

1994 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Charles Underwood "Oral History"

Fiction:

Winner: Loretta Orion The Siberian Shaman's Dress
Honorable Mention: Kirin Narayan Come Out And Serve

 

1993 Awards

Fiction:

Co- Winner: Kate Altork Working Norman's Birthday
Co-Winner: Maria Nieves Zedeno Saint versus the Hummingbird

 

1992 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

Kate Altork

"Ocote"

Honorable Mention:

Bill Holm

"Vietnamese Cooking in Reykjavik"

Honorable Mention:

Edith Laurencin

"and wah dey give we?"

Honorable Mention:

Miles Richardson

"Sequin to Guadalajara on Various Levels and in More Times Than I Can Count: The Continuation of Lives Already Dead"

Honorable Mention:

Raman Srinivasan

"Museum"

 

1991 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: John F. Sherry, Jr. "Restoration Triptych"; "Too Far Afield"; "Local Custom [Field Journal/Amsterdam Station]"
Second Prize Co-Winner: Martin F. Manalansan IV "New York City 1991: On the Margins of an Ethnography"; "(Dis)Other"
Second Prize Co-Winner: Kent Maynard "Burying the Dead"; "Bamenda in Dry Season"; "Night Lights"
Honorable Mention: Caroline G. Banks "Lessons in Bipedalism"

 

1990 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Charles F. Underwood "Third World Night"; "Los Muertos"
Second Prize: Jeanne Simonelli "Road Song I (Field Course 1989)"; "Road Songs II (Last Hike)"; "Guatemala 1990"
Honorable Mention: Catherine J. Allen "Old Griefs"; "Loss and the Academic Lizard"
Honorable Mention: Caroline G. Banks "Ode to Three Pillows"
Honorable Mention: Ward H. Goodenough "Morning star"
Honorable Mention: Clive Kileff "A White African Goes Home"
Honorable Mention: Vicki Levine "Duality"
Honorable Mention: Gabriel Seabrook "The Fount of Elysium"
Honorable Mention: John F. Sherry "Gaea Descending"
Honorable Mention: Dwayne C. Turner "La Chica (Little Girl)"

Fiction:

Winner: Susan Scott-Stevens The Djinn Tree
Runner-up: Grant A. Olson The Switchmaster

 

1989 Awards

Poetry:

Winner: Stephanos Stephanides "Yet I Still Celebrate You Lotus of the Mud Flats"; "Sky of the Hearts (Chidambaram)"; "The Sacrifice as in a Vision"
Second Prize: Micheal V Angrósino "Miss Anna Walks"; "At the Hotel Royal"
Third Prize: Mary Courtis "A Spiritual Kaleidoscope"; "Letting the Caged Bird Sing"
Honorable Mention: Clive Kileff "Paul, the blind driver"

Fiction:

Winner: Michael Hittman A Pair of Aces and One Deuce
Honorable Mention: Martha B. Kendall The Nature of the Evidence

 

1988 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

Susan Landgraf

"Kung Woman Lament"; "From an Interview with Winnie Mandela"; "To an Astronaut from an Ancient on the Use of Search Lights"

Second Prize:

Catherine Tihanyi

"Once upon a time, on the sparkling shores of the Mediterranean"; "At Myth End"

Third Prize:

Patricia Marshal

"Ode to the Water Spirit"; "This is the Year"

Honorable Mention:

William Y. Adams

"The Vision Quest"

Fiction:

Winner:

Ernest Schusky

Korean Exodus

Second Prize:

Yesim Ternar

Christians on the Beach

Honorable Mention:

Catherine Callaghan

Ecket

 

1987 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

Gordon Lester-Massman

"Mistakes in Paradise"

Runner-Up:

Barbara J Micheal

"Desert Scrub"; "Where"

 

1986 Awards

Poetry:

Winner:

Anthony Leeds

"We Shall Dry Our Eyes"

First Runner-Up:

Dan Rose

"We Discovered the Dancing Surfaces of Fire"

Second Runner-Up:

Ivan Brady

"cannibal-ism"

Honorable Mention:

Dennis Tedlock

"Five Days from a Dream Almanac"

Fiction:

Winner:

Barbara Tedlock

Keeping the Breath Nearby

Honorable Mention:

Sarah Waldorf

The Pig Men

 

 

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