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The Texas Poetry Calendar 2008 Awards were judged this year by Kathleen Peirce, who has been teaching poetry in the MFA program at Texas State University for more than a dozen years. The author of Mercy, Divided Touch, Divided Color, The Oval Hour, and most recently The Ardors, Peirce has received the AWP Award, the Iowa Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, a fellowship from the Whiting Foundation, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.
 
The Texas Poetry Calendar 2008 Awards:
  • First Place and $100.00:

Judy Jensen of Austin, Texas, for “Blind Lemon Jefferson’s Body Is Brought from Chicago to Wortham, Texas, by Pianist and Labelmate Will Ezell”

  • Second Place and $50.00: 

Kurt Heinzelman of Austin, Texas, for “Midday, Midsummer"

  • Third Place and $25.00: 

Alan Birkelbach of Plano, Texas, for “Early in the Morning, On the Road, Near Franklin, Texas”

 
 
In addition, Ms. Peirce chose the following as Honorable Mentions:
  • Katherine Durham Oldmixon of Austin, Texas, for “El Árbol Milagroso” 
  • Sarah Cortez of Houston, Texas, for “Seguin”
  • Robert Wynne of Fort Worth, Texas, for “In Bed”
 
 
Be sure to look for them in the 2008 Texas Poetry Calendar, available now!


 

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Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2007, as judged by Naomi Shihab Nye:
  • First Place:

Joe Blanda of Austin, Texas, for "From a Reluctant Shut-in to a Confirmed Recluse"

  • Second Place: 

Cathy Stern of Houston, Texas, for "Undone"

  • Third Place: 

Allison Smythe of Rocheport, Missouri, for "And Still She Watches"

 
 
Honorable Mentions:
  • Alan Birkelbach of Plano, Texas, for "When We Brought the Tree Limbs Down" 
  • Leah Christian of Madison, Wisconsin, for "Secret"
  • Jim LaVilla-Havelin of Lytle, Texas, for "Voyagers"
 
 


 

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Previous Winners of The Texas Poetry Calendar Awards:
2006, as judged by Robert McDowell:
  • First Place:

Ralph Hausser of Austin, Texas, for "Passenger Station, Texas"

  • Second Place: 

Sharon E. Young of Houston, Texas, for "Pansies"

  • Third Place: 

Robin Cate of Harlingen, Texas, for "Summer in Texas"

 
 
Honorable Mentions:
  • Jean H. Marvin of Houston, Texas, for "The Preacher's Wife" 
  • Mary Tindall of Whitehouse, Texas, for "Haiku"
  • Lounell Whitaker of Beaumont, Texas, for "Along the Railroad Track"
 
 

 

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Announcing the Texas Poetry Calendar 2009 Awards:

First Place: $150.00

Second Place: $75.00

Third Place: $40.00

All poems submitted to the calendar will be considered. In addition to the increased monetary prize, award-winning poems will receive special recognition in the Texas Poetry Calendar 2009.
Our 2009 contest judge, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, is the author of four books of poetry: Calendar of Dust, which won the American Book Award in 1992, Dark and Perfect Angels, Elegies in Blue, and most recently Dreaming the End of War. He has also published well-received short stories, novels, children's and young adult novels. His work has been awarded a Southwest Book Award, the Americas Book Award, the Patterson Book Prize, and the J. Hunt Award. In addition he has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award. We are again fortunate to have such an esteemed poet and writer as our judge.

 

 

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