January 11, 2008, Newsletter Issue #188: Winners of the Walt Whitman Award

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The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poetīs first book. Submissions are accepted each year from September 15 to November 15.

Here are the most recent winners:

1990 Elaine Terranova; The Cult of the Right Hand
1991 Greg Glazner; From the Iron Chair
1992 Stephen Yenser; The Fire in All Things
1993 Alison Hawthorne Deming; Science and Other Poems
1994 Jan Richman; Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything
1995 Nicole Cooley; Resurrection
1996 Joshua Clover; Madonna anno domini
1997 Barbara Ras; Bite Every Sorrow
1998 Jan Heller Levi; Once I Gazed at You in Wonder
1999 Judy Jordan; Carolina Ghost Woods
2000 Ben Doyle; Radio, Radio

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