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The Idaho Prize for Poetry
2007
LOST HORSE PRESS
is pleased to announce the winner of the Idaho Prize for
Poetry 2007 selected by Robin Becker
F r i e n d y F i r e poems by Katrina
Roberts
Friendly Fire will be released by Lost Horse Press in 2008.
Katrina Roberts, a graduate of Harvard University and
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a Paul Garrett Fellow and the Mina Schwabacher Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Whitman College, where she directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series. Her
first book of poems How Late Desire Looks won the Peregrine Smith Prize. The
Quick, her second book, was chosen by Linda Bierds for the Pacific
Northwest Poetry Series (University of Washington Press), and was a finalist
for the Washington State Book Award. Roberts’ work has appeared and is forthcoming
in journals and anthologies such as Ploughshares;
Northwest Review; New England Review; The Journal; New Orleans Review; Runes;
Sonora Review; Best American Poetry; The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize; The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets; Never Before: Poems About First Experiences; The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXII; The Long Journey: Pacific Northwest Poets; and Short Takes: Brief
Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. She and her husband are the proprietors of and winemakers for Tytonidae Cellars in Walla Walla, Washington, where they live with their three small children.
Final judge, Robin Becker, was born in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University and taught for seventeen years at the Massacusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Domain
of Perfect Affection, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006); The
Horse Fair (2000); All-American Girl (1996), which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; Giacometti’s
Dog (1990); Backtalk (1982); and Personal
Effects (1977). About her work, Stephen Dunn has said: “Robin Becker achieves what may be one of the early twenty first century’s most difficult accomplishments—to write a credible poetry of affirmation. In the doing, she doesn’t pretty up the world. Rather, she finds language that embraces our dualities, our many-selved presences, regularly demonstrating her kind of perfect affection.” Becker’s
poems and book reviews have appeared in publications such as American
Poetry Review, the Boston Globe, Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. Her honors include the 1997 Virginia Faulkner Prize for Excellence in Writing from Prairie
Schooner magazine and fellowships from the Mary Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to serving as Poetry Editor for The
Women’s Review of Books, Becker writes a column for the WRB on poetry and
the poetry scene called “Field Notes.” She is a Professor of English and Women’s
Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2007 Short List
Past Eden by Alice Templeton (San Francisco, CA)
The Brother Swimming Beneath Me by Brent Goodman (Rhinelander, WI)
The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2007 Finalists
Self-Evident by Scott Hightower (New York, NY)
Reflections in Blu by Carolyne Wright (Seattle, WA)
Hyssop by Susanna Chidress (Holland, MI)
Accidental Music By Anne Pitkin (Seattle, WA)
Peacetime by Tim Skeen (Fresno, CA)
Fugitive Dust by Kathleen Winter (Glen Ellen, CA)
The Natural Order of Things by Cathy Carlisi (Atlanta, GA)
Afraid the Future Burns by James Grabill (Portland, OR)
Nowhere by W.T.Pfefferle (Georgetown, KY)
Nervous Arrangement of Words Play House by Carol Guess (Bellingham, WA)
Stay by Kathleen McGookey (Wayland, MI)
Hold Everything Down by William Notter (Grand Raids, MI)
The Stones We Bring With Us by Carlos Reyes (Portland, OR)
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