Congratulations to all of the winners of 2009 Tupelo Press Awards and Contests!
2009 Dorset Prize
Winner: Rusty Morrison for After Urgency
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2009-2010 Dorset Prize, with congratulations to Rusty Morrison of Richmond, California for her manuscript, After Urgency. The winning manuscript was selected by Jane Hirshfield, this year’s judge, from a field of seventeen finalists. Ms. Hirshfields latest book is After (HarperCollins, 2006), named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Financial Times.
Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Northern California Book Award, and the Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Prize. Her book Whethering won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has also previously received the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin, Alice Fay DiCastagnola, Cecil Hemley, and Robert H. Winner Memorial Awards, as well as the 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, the University of Montana’s literary magazine.
Tupelo Press also wishes to congratulate Geri Doran of Eugene, Oregon, whose manuscript Sanderlings was selected runner-up by Jane Hirshfield. Ms. Doran is the author of Resin, selected by Henri Cole for the 2004 Walt Whitman Award and published by LSU Press in 2005. Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Literary Arts.
Tupelo Press will publish both the winning manuscript and the runner-up.
Tupelo Press also wishes to congratulate two special mentions, along with the balance of the finalists and semi-finalists:
Special Mentions:
Todd Fredson of Shelton, Washington, for The Crucifix-Blocks
Christina Hutchins of Albany, California, for World Without
Other finalists:
Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, Missouri, for The Frame Called Ruin
Bruce Bond of Denton, Texas, for Day Moon
Starkey Flythe of August, Georgia, for How’ll I know them? You’ll know them.
David Hawkins of Salt Lake City, Utah, for Dark Adaptations
Catherine Imbriglio of Providence, Rhode Island, for Rumor
Corey Marks of Denton, Texas, for The Radio Tree
Amy Newman of DeKalb, Illinois, for Dear Editor
Anne Marie Rooney of Ithaca, New York, for Life on the Mean
Natania Rosenfeld of Galesburg, Illinois, for Fruit and Memory
Brian Swann of New York, New York, for Perspectives and Other Poems: 1999-2009
Tess Taylor of Brooklyn, New York, for The Forage House
Theodore Worozbyt of Covington, Georgia, for Echo’s Recipe
Chun Ye of Falls Church, Virginia, for Lantern Puzzle
Semi-finalists:
Dilruba Ahmed of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, for Dhaka Dust
Sally Ball of Scottsdale, Arizona, for Wreck Me
Kevin Ducey of Madison, Wisconsin, for Exurban Primitives and for Taxis Full of Pilgrims
Sharon Fain of Mill Valley, California, for Demeter in the Suburbs
Cynthia Marie Hoffman of Madison, Wisconsin, for Call Me When You Want to Talk About the Tombstones
Cynthia Lowen of Brooklyn, New York, for While I Made Angels
Alice Jones of Berkeley, California, for Plunge
Ruth Moon Kempher of St. Augustine, Florida, for Weathering, on a Tilted Planet
David Keplinger of Washington, D.C., for Onion Light
George Looney of Erie, Pennsylvania, for A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness
Jen McClanaghan of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for The Cairo Letters
Alice Miller of Wellington, New Zealand, for The Theatre
Joshua Rivkin of San Francisco, California, for Wonderlife
Lisa Rosenberg of Menlo Park, California, for Flight
Melissa Stein of San Francisco, California, for The Prodigies
Amber Flora Thomas of Fairbanks, Alaska, for Braid: Poems
Addie Tsai of Houston, Texas, for and in its place-
Daneen Wardrop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, for Parachute Stranger
Kerri Webster of St. Louis, Missouri, for About the Megafauna
Sam Witt of Charlottesville, Virginia, for Occupation: Dreamland
First Book Award
Winner: Daniel Khalastchi for The Maturation of Man
Tupelo Press Is Pleased to Announce the Results of the 10th Annual First Book Award. The editors of Tupelo Press and the literary journal Crazyhorse have selected the manuscript The Maturation of Man by Daniel Khalastchi of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This book will be published in 2011.
We thank all the poets who sent us so much terrific work to consider, and we extend special appreciation and congratulations to this years Finalists.
Finalists:
Ari Banias of Brooklyn, New York: One the Whistler, One the Dog
Laurie Capps of Austin, Texas: Modern Recluse
Brett Foster of Wheaton, Illinois: The Garbage Eater
Christina Hutchins of Albany, California: World Without
Tanya Larkin of Somerville, Massachusetts: Enemy Love Song
Dawn Lonsinger of Salt Lake City, Utah: fatal light awareness
Jynne Martin of Brooklyn, New York: We Mammals in Hospitable Times
Kathy Nilsson of Cambridge, Massachusetts: Black Lemons
Addie Palin of Chicago, Illinois: The Cautery
Juliet Rodeman of Columbia, Missouri: Tropics of Petticoats
Amanda Rachelle Warren of Aiken, South Carolina: Some Grain of Absolute Among the Trembling
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award
Winner: Brandon Som for If St. Augustine Were a Butcher Like My Grandfather
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce the results of our 2009 Snowbound Chapbook Award. Judge Aimee Nezhukumatathil has selected If St. Augustine Were a Butcher Like My Grandfather by Brandon Som of Los Angeles, California. This chapbook will be published in the Snowbound series in 2011.
We extend our appreciation to the winner, runner-up, and finalists, and also to all of the poets who submitted so much terrific work. Thank you for your interest in and support of Tupelo Press.
Runner-up:
The Rafters of David by Kimberly Burwick of Lewiston, Idaho.
Finalists:
J. David Cummings of Menlo Park, California: Envoy
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota: Song of a Mirror
Barbara Duffy of Salt Lake City, Utah: Hunger Practice
Eileen G’Sell of St. Louis, Missouri: Eventually Your Ribbon House
Susan Gubernat of Oakland, California: Analog House (A Cabinet of Curiosities)
Steven Lautermilch of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina: So Hard to Say Good-bye: The Basho Dialogues
Mary Leader of West Lafayette, Indiana: The Hammer of Red and Blue
Mary Molinary of Memphis, Tennesee: Bird Signs
Mary Molinary of Memphis, Tennesee: The Translated Saint: A Departure in 5 Acts
Mary Molinary of Memphis, Tennesee: transposition
John Surowiecki of Amston, Connecticut: Mr. Niedzwiedzki’s Pink House
Jonathan Weinert of Concord, Massachusetts: Charged Particles