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Awards and Citations

New Listings:

2007 49th Parallel Poetry Prize, for "The Clear Bones"; selected by poet Carolyne Wright for The Bellingham Review

Finalist, 2007 Indiana Review Poetry Prize, for "Intimacy deserves a closer look"; selected by Joy Harjo (forthcoming, Indiana Review, December 2007)

Finalist, 2007 Lynda Hull Memorial Prize in Poetry, Crazyhorse Journal

Finalist, 2007 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, for the manuscript "Juan Luna's Revolver"; Hunger Mountain Journal

Semifinalist, 2007 Crab Orchard Review Open Competition in Poetry, for the manuscript Juan Luna's Revolver

OOV Press Release:

POET ON A ROLL: LUISA IGLORIA GARNERS U.S . PRIZES FOR POETRY

On 7 March 2007, the National Writers Union announced Luisa Igloria as
the winner of their 2006 NWU Poetry Contest. In selecting Igloria's
poem "Descent", Poet Adrienne Rich judged it " outstanding as a work
of language and visualization of history." The NWU has a $1,000 prize
and offers publication of the winning poem in Poetry Flash.

In yet another contest in January 2007, Igloria's poem "Venom" was
selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for the 2007 James
Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review . "Venom" was
chosen from 1,914 entries.

In 2006, Igloria was the Winner of the Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry
for her poem "Kierkegaard's Fable". She also won the 2006 Richard
Peterson Poetry Prize (Crab Orchard Review; the four winning poems
appeared in the fall-winter 2006 issue). In the same year, Igloria was
also selected as the 2006 Resident Poet of Our Own Voice, a quarterly
literary online journal.

Luisa Igloria (formerly published as Ma. Luisa A. Carino) also carries
the prestigious Philippine Palanca Memorial Literature Award and was
inducted into the Palanca Hall of Fame for being the recipient of more
than 10 Annual Palancas. She has proven her mettle through the years
by being one of the most prolific writers in the Philippines as poet,
fictionist and essayist. Igloria, now makes her home in Norfolk,
Virginia with her husband Ruben; and with 2 of four daughters. She is
Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in
Norfolk, Virginia. As a Fulbright scholar, she received her Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois in Chicago.

"Trill and Mordent", her most current poetry collection, was a runner
up for the 2004 Editions Poetry Prize (Word Tech Editions, 2005); the
book received the 2005 Calatagan Award from the Philippine American
Writers and Artists association in San Francisco, and in 2006 was
nominated for the 9th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Other
published works include Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino
Diaspora. Her poetry has appeared in various literary anthologies.

Reme A. Grefalda
Editor
Our Own Voice

Former U.S. Poet Laureate (2004-2006) Ted Kooser has selected Luisa A. Igloria's poem "Venom" (out of 1,914 poems submitted) as the winner of the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review.

Second place:
Gail Thomas - Florence, MA - "Learning to Walk Again"

Third place:
Marianne Patty - Dunwoody, GA - "The Only Mermaid on the Moon"

Honorable Mentions:

Kelli Russell Agodon - Kingston, WA - "If You Awake After I've Gone"
Daniel Lusk - Jonesville, VT - "Sabbath Fool"

Finalists:

Robert Abbate - Concord, NC - "Tishbite Pottery Fragments" Susan Elbe - Madison, WI - "Some Music"
Rebecca Foust - Ross, CA - "Strip Mine"
Jessica Garratt - Columbia, MD - "Woman Drives Past, Crying"
Paula Goldman - Shorewood, WI - "If Dickinson Had a Husband and Wrote Villanelles"
Cristine A. Gruber - Riverside, CA - "When the Time Comes, I Wish to Die in June"
Terry Hertzler - San Diego, CA - "Not Quite Déjà Vu"
Michael Kriesel - Aniwa, WI - "Zen Amen"
Melody Lacina - Berkeley, CA - "Copy Editing the Catalogue Raisonne of George Inness"
Karen Lieneke - Tucson, AZ - "The Memory of Water"
Mark Minster - Terre Haute, IN - "Krasnyi Ugol (The Beautiful Corner)"
Erin Murphy - Hollidaysburg, PA - "City Birds Are Losing Their Songs"
Sean Nevin - Tempe, AZ - "The Black Carpenter Bee"
Robert Peake - Ojai, CA - "Radish"
Jane B. Rawlings - Bernardsville, NJ - "Dawn, Leaving Venice"
Faith Shearin - Baltimore, MD - "Smoke"
Tana Jean Welch - Tallahassee, FL - "Locusts Are Swarming"

Winners and finalists will be published in the North American Review's annual "National Poetry Month" March-April issue.

Contest judge TED KOOSER is a poet and essayist, a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and most recently, US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. His writing is known for its clarity, precision and accessibility. He worked for many years in the life insurance business, retiring in 1999 as a vice president. He and his wife Kathleen Rutledge, editor of The Lincoln Journal Star, live on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska. He has a son, Jeff, and a granddaughter, Margaret. His most recent books are Flying at Night (poems) and The Poetry Home Repair Manual (a guidebook for poets).

A renowned "farmer poet," JAMES HEARST was an NAR contributing editor and poetry professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He published many poems, stories, articles,and books before his death in 1983. His twelve poetry collections include Country Men (1937), The Sun at Noon (1943), Man and His Field (1951), Limited View (1962), Snake in the Strawberries (1979), and the posthumously published Selected Poems (1994). Hearst's definitive collection, The Complete Poetry of James Hearst, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2001.

2006 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize (Crab Orchard Review; the four winning poems to appear in the fall-winter 2006 issue)

Semi-finalist, 2006 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Prize, Comstock Review (poem to appear in the fall 2006 issue)

Semi-finalist, 2006 RATTLE Poetry Prize (poem to appear in the summer 2007 issue)

Luisa Igloria is the 2006 Resident Poet in OUR OWN VOICE: Click Here

The Award is named in honor of Stephen Dunn, the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Different Hours, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Other collections include New & Selected Poems 1974-1994, Landscape at the End of the Century, Between Angels, Riffs & Reciprocities and his most recent collection Local Visitations (all with Norton). Also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (Norton), Dunn is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Theodore Roethke Prize, and various other awards. He is a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and a Professor at Richard Stockton College. The 2005 Stephen Dunn Award in Poetry was given to poet Linda Dove for “In Memory of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)”.

The first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation (Summer 2006 Residency)

Finalist, 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry, Poetry Society of America

2004 Fugue Poetry Prize

Finalist, 2003 Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press

Finalist, 2003 Larry Levis Editors Prize, Missouri Review

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