Editor Explains
Your editor lost some time during the summer due to a knee replacement, so we’re behind in our interviewing process. Look forward to the next issue when we’ll interview the winner and finalists of the Colorado Book Award (Beer, Melendez, Sorensen). And more interviews will keep coming. For now, enjoy what others have to say along with a few news items. (B. King)
Awards for Colorado Poets
The following list of awards is taken from our web-listing, just to remind people what’s ‘going on’ in Colorado.
If you received an award or won a competition and it’s not here, contact franklinbeth1309@gmail.com.
Brian Barker: The 2010 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Awards for The Black Ocean. Nicky Beer: the 2011 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Kiersten Bridger: The 2011 Mark Fischer Poetry Award. Julie Carr: The 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press); the 2009 National Poetry Series Open Competition for Sarah--of Fragments and Limes.
Robert Cooperman: The 2010 Holland Prize from Logan House press for My Shtetl. Dan Guenther: the Colorado Authors’ League 2011 Award for The Crooked Truth. Robert King: the 2011 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest with his manuscript, Rodin & Co. Luis Lopez: An American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press, 2008). William Notter: the 2010 High Plains Book Award for Poetry for Holding Everything Down (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009).
Veronica Patterson: the 2009 Gell Poetry Prize for Thresh & Hold. Bin Ramke: the 2010 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems (Omnidawn Publishing). Sasha Steensen: the 2011 Flying Guillotine’s chapbook contest for A History of the Human Family. Rawdon Tomlinson: the 2010 Stevens Manuscript Competition for Lines from the Surgeon's Children, 1862-1865. Pam Uschuk: The 2010 American Book Award for Crazy Love and the 2010 New Millennium Poetry Award for a single poem. Lynn Wagner: the 2009 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest for No Blues This Raucous Song.
