Awards
Melendez: Editor's Choice
Maria Melendez’s poem, "Recipe for When You're Tired of Feeding Your Family Life Cereal from a Box," which appeared in the recent New Poets of the American West (ed. Lowell Jaeger), was the Colorado winner of an Editor’s Choice Award. She will receive a certificate and $200.
Cather Finalist: Buyer
Laurie Wagner Buyer’s Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal was named a Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award by Women Writing the West.
Uschuk Wins 2010 Amer. Book Award
Pam Uschuk's latest book of poems, Crazy Love , has just won the 2010 American Book Award. She will receive the award in San Francisco in September.
Uschuk Wins New Millennium Award
Colorado poet Pam Uschuk has received the 2010 New Millennium Poetry Award for her poem, "Shostakovich: Five Pieces." The award provides a $1,000 prize. Uschuk, editor of the literary magazine Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, lives outside of Bayfield with the writer William Pitt Root.
Mason New Colorado Laureate
David Mason of Colorado Springs has been selected as the new Colorado Poet Laureate, replacing long-serving Mary Crow. His biography is listed under his name on the Colorado Poets Center website. Other information at:
http://www.cpr.org/article/Colorados_New_Poet_Laureate
Ramke Wins Colorado Book Award
Bin Ramke of Denver has won the 2010 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for his volume Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems published by Omnidawn Publishing. The 19th annual book awards ceremony was held in Aspen on June 25.
Finalist Matthew Cooperman
Matthew Cooperman's new manuscript Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move was a finalist for the New Measure Prize.
Authors League Award to Guenther
Dan Guenther’s novel Glossy Black Cockatoos was selected as the 2010 winner of the Colorado Author’s League Award for Genre Fiction.
Cooperman Wins Holland Prize
Robert Cooperman’s book, My Shtetl, has won this year’s Holland Prize from Logan House Press.
Wagner Wins Slapering Hole Contest
Lynn Wagner of Denver won the 2009 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest for No Blues This Raucous Song, receiving $1,000 and publication. The annual prize is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
Julie Carr, Sawtooth Winner
Julie Carr’s book of poems, 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press) was selected by Rae Armantrout for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize 2009. For more info and ordering, go to: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/carr/carr.htm
Conde in CutThroat Fiction Prize
Kathy Conde received an Honorable Mention in CutThroat’s 2009 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award.
Jared Smith Finalist
Jared Smith’s book was a finalist for the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland University in 2009. The competition was judged by Elton Glaser.
Julie Carr, of Denver, won one of the slots in the 2009 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her book, Sarah--of Fragments and Limes, selected by Eileen Myles, will be published by Coffee House Press.
Katie Kingston has won the 2010 W. D. Snodgrass Fellowship given for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence. The cash prize is for tuition at the San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende in January of 2010. Snodgrass lived seasonally in San Miguel with his wife Kathy, a translator in her own right, both of whom were regular presenters at the conference.
Jake York’s book A Murmuration of Starlings has received the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. The book “is part of an ongoing project to elegize and memorialize the martyrs of the Civil Rights movement”. Finalists were Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s Holding Three Things at Once and Pattiann Rogers’ Wayfarer. The awards were announced June 22, 2009, as part of the Aspen literary festival.
J. Michael Martinez, a writing instructor in English at the Univ. of Northern Colorado and, currently, the Univ of Colorado, has been awarded the 2009 Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets for his book-length collection of poems, Heredities, which will be published in spring 2010. Luis Lopez’s Each Month I Sing (Farrolito Press, 2008)has received the EVVY 1st place award for poetry by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) at their 15th annual awards presentation.
Veronica Patterson’s manuscript Thresh / Hold has been selected by poet Lola Haskins as the winner of the second annual Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize. The prize, for 2009, includes publication of the work in trade paperback by Big Pencil Press, an honorarium of $1000 payable upon publication, and a two-week fellowship at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes, a retreat center in the Bristol Hills, Naples, New York.
M. D. Friedman’s audio poem, “A Good Dog,” was the overall winner of the Book Habit & New Zealand Poetry Society‘s 2008 Poetry Contest. http://www.poetscoop.org/media/GOODDOG.mp3
Luis Lopez of Grand Junction won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press, 2008). Of the book, John Nizalowski says: “In this celebration of the yearly round, we find mythology, religion, art, culture, politics, nature, astronomy, the human condition, humor, and yes, even baseball. The poems ‘Salvador Quintana,’ ‘Encounter with La Lorona,’ and ‘Campbell’s Soup: A Villanelle for Andy Warhol’ are alone worth the price of admission. By giving us over 140 more poems, Lopez has presented us with a lyrical feast — his finest book to date.”