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The Idaho Prize 2005


LOST HORSE PRESS
LOST HORSE PRESS
is pleased to announce the winner of the 2005 Idaho Prize for Poetry:

THISTLE by Melissa Kwasny
THISTLE

Melissa Kwasny was born in LaPorte, Indiana, and educated at the University of Montana. She is a poet and fiction writer. and the author of one book of poetry, The Archival Birds (Bear Star, 2000), two novels, Trees Call for What They Need and Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West, as well as the editor of Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry (Wesleyan, 2004). Ms. Kwasny lives in San Francisco and Montana.

Lost Horse Press wishes to express gratitude to this year’s Idaho Prize contestants, as well as a hearty thank you to our first and second readers and the final judge, Christopher Howell.

Many thanks,
Christine Holbert


2005 FINALISTS

Landscape With Silos by Deborah Bogen
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Instrumental Gods by Matt Donovan
Sante Fe, New Mexico

Variations in the Key of Night by Stan Rubin
Port Townsend, Washington

Other Americas by Richard Robbins
Mankato, Minnesota

Sudden Anthem by Matthew Guenette
Madison, Wisconsin

The Blue Cottage by James Brasfield
State College, Pennsylvania

Hope by Judith Hemschmeyer
Winter Park, Florida

Difficult Beauties by Janet Wondra
Chicago, Illinois

So Many People Couldn’t Be Wrong by Laurie Blauner
Seattle, Washington

Heat Lightning by Judith Skilman
Kennydale, Washington

This Brief Earth by Bern Mulvey
Pocatello, Idaho

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