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Fred Chappell, North Carolina’s Poet Laureate, has published 25 books,
including the poetry collection Midquest, which was awarded the Bollingen
Prize by Yale University. His other poetry books include Spring Garden,
The World between the Eyes, Source, and, most recently, Family
Gathering (Louisiana State University, 2000). Mr. Chappell is Professor of
English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
(Poet Laureate Award, Final Judge)
Patricia Fargnoli’s Necessary Light (Utah State U. Press)
was chosen by Mary Oliver to receive the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.
Her work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Prairie
Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, and The
Indiana Review. She teaches at The New Hampshire Art Institute,
and Keene Institute of Music & Related Arts, and has been on the
faculty of The Frost Place. Fargnoli is an editor of Victory Park
and of The Worcester Review.
(Poet Laureate Award, Preliminary Judge)
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Bruce Bennett is the author of four books of poems: Straw into Gold
(Cleveland State, 1984), I Never Danced with Mary Beth (FootHills, 1991),
Taking Off (Orchisis, 1992), and Navigating the Distances: Poems New
and Selected (Orchisis, 1999). He cofounded and was an editor of Field
and Ploughshares, and since 1980 has been an Associate Editor at State
Street Press. He is Professor of English at Wells College in Aurora, New York.
(Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award)
Debra Bruce, Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern Illinois
University in Chicago, has published three collections of poetry: What Wind
Will Do (Miami University/Ohio, 1997), Sudden Hunger (University of
Arkansas, 1988), and Pure Daughter (University of Arkansas, 1983).
Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Atlantic
Monthly.
(Poetry of Courage Award)
Susan Donnelly is the author of Eve Names the Animals, a 1994 Morse
Prize winner from Northeastern University Press, and Transit (Iris Press,
2001). Susan is a frequent fellow at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Arts.
Her recent poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly,
The American Scholar, and The Louisville Review, and is forthcoming
in Oxford American. She lives, writes, and teaches in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Joanna Catherine Scott Award)
Claudia Emerson’s poems have appeared in Poetry,
The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly,
Crazyhorse, New England Review, and other journals. LSU
published Pharaoh, Pharaoh in 1997; and Pinion, An Elegy, is
scheduled to appear in 2002. Emerson has been awarded fellowships from the
NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is Assistant Professor
of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA.
(Thomas H. McDill Award)
Robert A. Fink is W. D. Bond Professor of English and Director
of Creative Writing at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
He has published four books of poetry, including The Tongues of Men
and of Angels (Texas Tech U. Press, 1995). His poems have appeared
in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry
Review, Southwest Review, Poetry Northwest,
TriQuarterly, The Texas Review, and many other journals.
(Poetry of Love Award)
John Hodgen has authored two poetry collections: Bread
without Sorrow (Eastern Washington University Press, 2001),
and In My Father’s House, winner of the 1993 Bluestem Award
from Emporia State U. in Kansas. His awards include The Grolier Prize,
an Arvon Foundation Award (England), and the Red Brick Review Award.
He teaches writing in Massachusetts at Mount Wachusett Community
College and at The Worcester Art Museum.
(Mary Ruffin Poole Heritage Award)
Ottone Riccio, writer, editor, and teacher, has published more
than 600 poems, short stories, articles, and editorials; and two
collections of poems. His textbook, The Intimate Art of Writing
Poetry, originally published in eight countries by Prentice-Hall, is
now available from iuniverse.com, Amazon.com, and bookstores. Riccio
lectures about and teaches poetry throughout New England, and has led
poetry workshops at The Boston Center for Adult Education for almost 35
years.
(Lyman Haiku Award)
Del Marie Rogers is the author of two poetry collections:
She'll Never Want More Than This (Firewheel Press, 2002), and
Close to Ground (Corona, 1990); and is co-editor of I Had
Been Hungry All the Years, an anthology of poems by American
women. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and
anthologies, including The Colorado Review, Ironwood,
Kayak, The Nation, The Sun, Puerto del Sol,
and Southern Poetry Review. A recipient of an NEA grant, and
an NEA prize for a single poem, she has taught at the university level,
and now lives in New Mexico.
(Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award)
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