Past Poetry Winners

Year	Award	Author	Title
2023	1st Prize	Debra Vidali	Two Row Repair II & III
2023	2nd Prize	Yixuan Wang	A Cootie Catcher to Recruit ‘English Native Teachers’ to Teach in China
2023	3rd Prize	Febi R Ramadhan	Two Lovers, God, and Everything-in Between
2023	Honorable Mention	Susan Haris	Anti-trauma
2022	1st Prize	Khando Langri	I sing the body ethnographic
2022	2nd Prize	Kali Rubaii	Homelanding (Hello Tigris; Sweet Air; Fabric)
2022	3rd Prize	Kristina van Dexter	Magic Cattle (Magic Cattle; Rastrojo; The selva)
2022	Honorable Mention	Nomaan Hasan	to fellow merchants of experience
2022	Honorable Mention	Rodrigo Arthuso	four ways to die among the singing people (in less than two weeks)
2021	1st Prize	Wesley Brunson	Dragonfly
2021	2nd Prize	Whitney Duncan	Verification Settings
2021	3rd Prize	Tasneem Mandviwala	Hyphenwoman
2021	Honorable Mention	Samia Mehraj	War and time waits for nobody’s mothers in Kashmir
2021	Honorable Mention	Yixuan Wang	A new year in America

Year	Award	Author	Title
2020	1st Prize	Susan Wardell	“Fingeryeyes”; “Social scripts”; “Flow”
2020	2nd Prize	J. Brent Crosson	“The Traffic in Birds” (The Traffic, The Port, The Birds)
2020	3rd Prize	Jamie Davidson	“Alternative Texts”
2019	1st Prize	Casey Golomski	Police / Matsapha, Swaziland, 28 July 2008; Phenomena / Matsapha, Swaziland, 19 August 2008; Personification / Ludwala, Swaziland, 23 December 2009
2018	1st Prize (tie)	Darcy Alexandra	“Extrajudicial Killing, San Salvador, 1991″; “Ruta de la Malintzin”; “Is it More Ordinary to Forget or to Remember?”
2018	1st Prize (tie)	Iza Kavedžija	“worlds apart, or two fieldsites” [by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker]; “(no longer mine) view of Utsubo park”
2018	2nd Prize	William M. Cotter	“56 Seconds”
2018	Honorable Mention	Wesley Brunson	“Cultivating Boredom”
2018	Honorable Mention	Cassie Smith-Christmas	“Virginia Place”
2017	1st Prize	Jenanne Ferguson	“Blessing for the Permafrost” and “City of Dust”
2017	2nd Prize (tie)	Jeremy Jacob Peretz	Calabash Microcosm
2017	2nd Prize (tie)	M. J. Gette	Birthday Party: San Jorge, Guatemala 8/12 and “Dos Cuentos: two stories told to us when we stopped in the aldeas during the trek through the altiplano of Guatemala, and then the highlands”
2017	3rd Prize	Sarah Green	“Walking Home from India”
2017	Honorable Mention	Erin Jin Mei O’Malley	“sister” and “I have nothing to hold anymore”
2017	Honorable Mention	Uzma Falak	“Point of Departure”
2017	Honorable Mention	Derwin Sisnett	“Adansonia Digitata”
2017	Honorable Mention	Levi Romero	“La Waitress”, and “he puts his hand to his chest”
2017	Honorable Mention	Marcia Rego	“Unadvisable”
2017	Honorable Mention	LaShaune P. Johnson	“Devil on my shoulder: An ode to Adriamycin”
2017	Honorable Mention	Myntha Anthym	“On the Ownership of Air”
2016	1st Prize	Eleanor Stanford	“Afterbirth”; “Dona França”; “Dona Bela, Midwife of Lençóis”
2016	2nd Prize	Abigail Carl-Klassen	“Mennonite border crossing”
2016	3rd Prize	Francesca Mezzenzana	“Sacha Muskuy” (Forest Dream)
2015	1st Prize	Bonnie Auslander	“Dwellings of the World” and “Origins of the Mediterranean”
2015	2nd Prize (tie)	Joey Chin	“Token Gap ; “The Heart Stops at the Door”; “Rhetoric”
2015	2nd Prize (tie)	Paul Schissel	“Petals in Gutters: Tai sowing needle’s hum”
2015	3rd Prize	Jake Young	“Commensality”
2015	Honorable Mention	Leah Zani	“The Fruit-eaters” and “The Blast Radius”
2015	Honorable Mention	Devi K. Lockwood	“Cabinet of Curiosities: River Bones”
2014	1st Prize	Heather Altfeld	“Apperson Ranch, 1908”
2014	2nd Prize	Adrie Kusserow	“American Bardo”
2014	3rd Prize	John S. O’Connor	“Sun Poisoning”
2013	1st Prize	Janis Rodgers	“Malalel”
2013	2nd Prize	Ather Zia	“The Ex Fighter Returns”
2013	3rd Prize	Terese V. Gagnon	“Normaltown”
2013	Honorable Mention	Steven Alvarez	“2000/5th Sun/Our Present”
2013	Honorable Mention	Heidi Kelley	“The Anthropologist Returns”
2013	Honorable Mention	Xueting Liu	“Waiting for John Nash Outside a Beijing conference Room”
2012	1st Prize	Irina Carlota Silber	“Nanita”
2012	2nd Prize	Kuo Zhang	“One Child Policy”
2012	3rd Prize	Jonathan Glasser	“Enemy Territory”
2012	Honorable Mention	Elena Harap	“Sanctuary/Home”
2011	1st Prize	Carolyn Moore	“Translator’s Notes on the Island of Unst’s Norn Fragment, Forkortning Saga”
2011	2nd Prize	Susan Settlemyre Williams	“KV55: Its Voices”
2011	3rd Prize	W.F. Lantry	“Yungas Valley”
2011	Honorable Mention	Worth Summers	“Coyote, Clacier Point Winter”
2011	Honorable Mention	Christine Eber	“Do You Want Me To Cut More Vegetables, Boss?”
2009	1st Prize	Christina Lovin	“Myth Information”
2009	2nd Prize	Brynn Champney	“Infinite Genocide”
2009	3rd Prize	Angela Just	“Ardor”
2009	Honorable Mention	Felice Wyndham	“In the Chaco”
2009	Honorable Mention	Ira Joe Fisher	“Under the Roof Lines of Annville”
2008	1st Prize	Marilyn Wilkey Merritt	“Waiting for A Young Poet in Niamey” and “Dakar Rhythms of Ramadan”
2008	2nd Prize	Peter Nelson	“A Tuscan Necropolis”
2008	3rd Prize	Marie Gervais	“On this day nobody die”
2007	Winner	Liz Beasley	“Vestigial”
2007	2nd Prize	Roberta Feins	“The Great Market”
2007	3rd Prize	Liza Bakewell	“The Cacique”
2007	Honorable Mention	Jennifer Wooten	“¿De Dónde es Usted?”
2007	Honorable Mention	Brooke Bocast	“A Good Woman”
2006	1st Prize	Roy Jacobstein	“HIV Needs Assessment”
2006	2nd Prize	Alison Pelegrin	“The Bois Sec Suite”
2006	3rd Prize	Anoopa Sharma	“Living Bangladesh”
2006	Honorable Mention	Benjamin Vogt	“How We Came to be Here”
2006	Honorable Mention	Lucille Lang Day	“I Always Knew It”
2006	Honorable Mention	Karen Rodriguez	“Yellow Underwear”
2005	1st Prize	Kristina Lyons	“Then Silence”; “Thanks to G. E. Patterson”
2005	2nd Prize	Lorraine Healy	“The General’s Hands”
2005	3rd Prize	Renato Rosaldo	“Among Tribesmen”
2004	Winner	Michael Glaser	“My Daughter, Dancing,” “Silence,” “Discovering God (in Barnes and Noble),” and “St Vitus Cathedral.”
2004	Honorable Mention	Nandini Gunewardena	“Silenced”
2004	Honorable Mention	Carolyn Hill-Bjerke	“Preservation,” “The New York Armory–Friday, September 14th, 2001,” and “Remains”
2004	Honorable Mention	Louise Tokarsky-Unda	“Tortillas” and “La Guadalupana”
2004	Honorable Mention	Margaret Litvin	“Haitian Scene” and “Mango”
2003	co-Winner	Melisa Cahnmann	“American Defense”
2003	co-Winner	Heidi Kelley	“In the Waiting Room”; “Que Sinvergüenza”; “Green is the Color of Galician Death”
2002	1st Prize	Tracy Lewis	“Meditacin in and about Mbohapy e”; “Pax Nobiscum”; “Muse”; “Pride?”; “Ignoramus”
2002	2nd Prize	Brian and Roberta Swann	“Slugs”; “Soft Boiled Eggs”
2002	3rd Prize	Debra Nystrom, Hushang Philsooph
2001	Winner	Adrie Kusserow	“Twenty-first Century Religiotropic”
2001	Honorable Mention	Tope Omoniyi	“Gbomo Gbomo”
2001	Honorable Mention	Kent Maynard	“Rain, Again”
2000	Winner	Jeanne Simonelli	“Conflict Zone: Expressions of Fieldwork in Chiapas”
1999	Winner	Helen Frost	“The Corner of Clay and Berry”
1998	Winner	Adrie Kusserow	“American Nomads”; “Hunting Down the Monk”; “Picking the Streets, Kathmandu”; “Bulimia Religiosa”; “Learning Gods: Buddha- Confession 31”; “No Gods Left”
1997	Winner	Jim Funaro	“The Dancing Stones of Callanish”
1996	co-Winner	Tara Waters Lumpkin	“The Mountaineer”
1996	co-Winner	Keith Smith	“Palm Sunday”; “Good Friday”
1995	co-Winner	John McCall	“Motopark Beggars”
1995	co-Winner	Charles Underwood	“Ethnography of the Unspoken”
1994	Winner	Charles Underwood	“Oral History”
1993	Winner	Don Mitchell	“Shifting Agriculture” and “Sightlines”
1992	Winner	Kate Altork	”Ocote”
1992	Honorable Mention	Bill Holm	“Vietnamese Cooking in Reykjavik”
1992	Honorable Mention	Edith Laurencin	“and wah dey give we?”
1992	Honorable Mention	Miles Richardson	“Sequin to Guadalajara on Various Levels and in More Times Than I Can Count: The Continuation of Lives Already Dead”
1992	Honorable Mention	Raman Srinivasan	“Museum”
1991	1st Prize	John F. Sherry, Jr.	“Restoration Triptych”; “Too Far Afield”; “Local Custom [Field Journal/Amsterdam Station]”
1991	2nd Prize (tie)	Martin F. Manalansan IV	“New York City 1991: On the Margins of an Ethnography”; “(Dis)Other”
1991	2nd Prize (tie)	Kent Maynard	“Burying the Dead”; “Bamenda in Dry Season”; “Night Lights”
1991	Honorable Mention	Caroline G. Banks	“Lessons in Bipedalism”
1990	1st Prize	Charles F. Underwood	“Third World Night”; “Los Muertos”
1990	2nd Prize	Jeanne Simonelli	“Road Song I (Field Course 1989)”; “Road Songs II (Last Hike)”; “Guatemala 1990”
1990	Honorable Mention	Catherine J. Allen	“Old Griefs”; “Loss and the Academic Lizard”
1990	Honorable Mention	Caroline G. Banks	“Ode to Three Pillows”
1990	Honorable Mention	Ward H. Goodenough	“Morning star”
1990	Honorable Mention	Clive Kileff	“A White African Goes Home”
1990	Honorable Mention	Vicki Levine	“Duality”
1990	Honorable Mention	Gabriel Seabrook	“The Fount of Elysium”
1990	Honorable Mention	John F. Sherry	“Gaea Descending”
1990	Honorable Mention	Dwayne C. Turner	“La Chica (Little Girl)”
1989	1st Prize	Stephanos Stephanides	“Yet I Still Celebrate You Lotus of the Mud Flats”; “Sky of the Hearts (Chidambaram)”; “The Sacrifice as in a Vision”
1989	2nd Prize	Michael V Angrosino	“Miss Anna Walks”; “At the Hotel Royal”
1989	3rd Prize	Mary Courtis	“A Spiritual Kaleidoscope”; “Letting the Caged Bird Sing”
1989	Honorable Mention	Clive Kileff	“Paul, the blind driver”
1988	1st Prize	Susan Landgraf	“Kung Woman Lament”; “From an Interview with Winnie Mandela”; “To an Astronaut from an Ancient on the Use of Search Lights”
1988	2nd Prize	Catherine Tihanyi	“Once upon a time, on the sparkling shores of the Mediterranean”; “At Myth End”
1988	3rd Prize	Patricia Marshal	“Ode to the Water Spirit”; “This is the Year”
1988	Honorable Mention	William Y. Adams	“The Vision Quest”
1987	Winner	Gordon Lester-Massman	“Mistakes in Paradise”
1987	Runner-up	Barbara J Michael	“Desert Scrub”; “Where”
1986	Winner	Anthony Leeds	“We Shall Dry Our Eyes”
1986	1st Runner-up	Dan Rose	“We Discovered the Dancing Surfaces of Fire”
1986	1st Runner-up	Ivan Brady	“cannibal-ism”
1986	Honorable Mention	Dennis Tedlock	“Five Days from a Dream Almanac”

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