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The
Texas Poetry Calendar 2010 Awards were judged this year by Mark Doty, who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems.
Doty's many honors include the National Book Critics Circle
Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and three Lambda Literary
Awards. With fellowships from the Guggenheim, the Ingram
Merrill, the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and the
National Endowment for the Arts, Doty is the only American poet to have
received the United Kingdom's prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize.
Doty has been teaching in the graduate creative writing program
at the University of Houston for the past few years, but in the fall of
2009, he joins the faculty at Rutgers University.
The Texas Poetry Calendar 2010 Awards:
Ed Madden of Columbia, South Carolina, for "Late Spring, near Leakey, Texas"
- Second Place and $150.00:
Jerry Bradley of Beaumont, Texas, for "Flying with the Crows"
Stan Crawford of Houston, Texas, for "October Round"
In addition, Mr. Doty chose the following as Honorable Mentions:
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Marian Aitches of San Antonio, Texas, for "Spring in Texas: The War Years"
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Mike Alexander of Houston, Texas, for "Bony Fingers"
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Robert Ayres of Austin, Texas, for "Hill Country Galleria"
Be sure to look for them in the
2010 Texas Poetry Calendar, available in July of 2009!
Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2009, as judged by Benjamin Alire Sáenz:
John Gorman of Galveston, Texas, for "Slice of Life”
Mary Agnes Dalrymple of Huffman, Texas, for "Crossing the Lake Houston Bridge"
Chris Ellery of San Angelo, Texas, for "The Ripe and the Unripe Fruit"
Honorable Mentions:
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Alan Gann of Plano, Texas, for "It Could Have Been Paris"
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Suzanne Geiger of Austin, Texas, for "Confessions in March"
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Ann Reisfeld Boutté of Houston, Texas, for "Eliza Visits the Cockrell Butterfly Center"
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Beverly Monestier of San Antonio, Texas, for "Copper Thieves"
- Adamarie Fuller, of Houston, Texas, for "Change of Life"
Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2008, as judged by Kathleen Peirce:
Judy
Jensen of Austin, Texas, for “Blind Lemon Jefferson’s Body
Is Brought from Chicago to Wortham, Texas, by Pianist and Labelmate
Will Ezell”
Kurt Heinzelman of Austin, Texas, for “Midday, Midsummer"
Alan Birkelbach of Plano, Texas, for “Early in the Morning, On the Road, Near Franklin, Texas”
Honorable Mentions:
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Katherine Durham Oldmixon of Austin, Texas, for “El Árbol Milagroso”
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Sarah Cortez of Houston, Texas, for “Seguin”
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Robert Wynne of Fort Worth, Texas, for “In Bed”
Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2007, as judged by Naomi Shihab Nye:
Joe Blanda of Austin, Texas, for "From a Reluctant Shut-in to a Confirmed Recluse"
Cathy
Stern of Houston, Texas, for "Undone"
Allison Smythe of Rocheport, Missouri, for "And Still She Watches"
Honorable Mentions:
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Alan Birkelbach of Plano, Texas, for "When We Brought the Tree Limbs Down"
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Leah Christian of Madison, Wisconsin, for "Secret"
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Jim LaVilla-Havelin of Lytle, Texas, for "Voyagers"
Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2006, as judged by Robert McDowell:
Ralph Hausser of Austin, Texas, for "Passenger Station, Texas"
Sharon E. Young of Houston, Texas, for "Pansies"
Robin Cate of Harlingen, Texas, for "Summer in Texas"
Honorable Mentions:
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Jean H. Marvin of Houston, Texas, for "The Preacher's Wife"
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Mary Tindall of Whitehouse, Texas, for "Haiku"
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Lounell Whitaker of Beaumont, Texas, for "Along the Railroad Track"
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