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NINETIETH ANNUAL PSA AWARDS


"Fortune gave him to know the flaming best,
expression's kings in his time."
John Berryman


AWARDWINNERJUDGE
The Frost Medal

Anthony HechtPSA Board of
Governors
Shelley Memorial Award

Jean ValentineGerald Stern
Gary Soto
Elizabeth Arnold
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award

David Lloyd and Isabel Nathaniel

Runners-up are John Hodgen
and Jane Jacobs

W.D. Snodgrass
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award

Mary Jo Bang and Stephanie StricklandBrenda Hillman
William Carlos Williams Award

Kathleen Peirce
The Oval Hour
from University Press of Iowa

Runner-up is
Camera Lyrica by Amy Newman
from Alice James Books

Jean Valentine
Norma Farber First Book Award

Lisa Lubasch
How Many More of Them Are You?
from Avec Books

Runner-up is
Interior With Sudden Joy
by Brenda Shaugnessy
from Farrar Straus & Giroux

John Yau
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award

Glori SimmonsDionisio D. Martinez
George Bogin Memorial Award

Yerra SugarmanHenri Cole
Lyric Poetry Award

Jeffrey HarrisonLaure-Anne Bosselaar
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award

Rhina P. EspaillatRichard Kenney
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne
Student Poetry Award

Michael WardElizabeth Alexander
The Writer Magazine/
Emily Dickinson Award

Jean Balderston and Dolores HaydenLucie Brock-Broido


Read the PSA Annual Award Guidelines 2001

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