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Lost Horse Press
is pleased to announce the winner of the
2006 Idaho Prize for Poetry
Retreats and Recognitions
by Grace Bauer, Lincoln, Nebraska
GRACE BAUER, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Nebraska by way
of New Orleans, Montana, Massachussetts, and Virginia. She is the author of Where
You’ve Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993) and The House Where I’ve Never
Lived (Anabiosis Press, 1993), and The Women at the Well (Portals
Press, 1997), Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp (winner
of the 1999 Snail’s Pace Press Chapbook Competition), Beholding Eye (Custom
Words, 2006), the forthcoming Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Creative
and Critical Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, Fall 2006).
She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, where she
won the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her other awards include an Individual
Artist’s Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar
Award and Women’s Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache
Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry has appear in DoubleTake, Poetry,
South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans
Review, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader
for Prairie Schooner.
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 to the final judge, Robert Pack.
Many thanks,
Christine Holbert
Publisher
Finalists
No Sweeter Fat by Nancy Pagh, Bellingham, Washington
Union by Emily Raabe, New York, New York
Holding Time by Robert Carl Williams, Pittsfield, Vermont
Woman, Money, Watch, Gun by Carolyne Wright, Seattle, Washington
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