THE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MILT KESSLER POETRY BOOK AWARD

Established in 2002

Past Winners

2008 Albert Goldbarth for The Kitchen Sink from Graywolf Press

Judge: Denise Duhamel

Finalists:
Edward Field for
After the Fall (University of Pittsburgh Press)
David Kirby for
The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press)

2007 Denise Duhamel for Two and Two from University of Pittsburgh Press

Judge: Laura Boss

Finalists:
Judith Ortiz Cofer for
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish (U of Georgia Press)
Martin Espada for
The Republic of Poetry (W.W Norton)
Alicia Suskin Ostriker for
No Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Rochelle Ratner for
Balancing Acts (Marsh Hawk Press)
David Ray for
Music of Time: Selected and New Poems (Backwaters Press)
Anele Rubin for
Trying to Speak (Kent State University Press)

2006 Christopher Bursk for The Improbable Swerving of Atoms from University of Pittsburgh Press

Judge: Leslie Heywood

Finalists:
Vivian Shipley
Hardboot (Louisiana Literature Press)
Luis J. Rodriguez
My Nature Is Hunger: New & Selected Poems (Curbstone Press)
Virgil Suárez
90 Miles (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Judith McCombs
The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New (Word Works)
Eleanor Lerman
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds (Sarabande Books)
Jacqueline Berger
Things That Burn (The Univerity of Utah Press)

2005 Ted Kooser for Delights & Shadows from Copper Canyon Press

Judge: Jack Bedell

Finalists:
Kim Addonizio
What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W.Norton)
David Bottoms
Waltzing Through the Endtime (Copper Canyon Press)
Alice Fulton
Cascade Experiment (W.W. Norton)
Lorna Goodison
Controlling the Silver (University of Illinois Press)
Barbara Hamby
Babel (University of Pittsburgh Press)
David Huddle
Grayscale (Louisiana State University Press)
Mark Jarman
To the Green Man (Sarabande Books)

2004 Winner: John E. Smelcer for Without Reservation (Truman State U Press)

Judge: Marilyn Chin

Finalists:
Jan Beatty for Bone Shaker (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Peg Boyers for Hard Bread (University of Chicago Press)
Suzanne Cleary for Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Sarah Kennedy for Flow Blue (Elixir Press)
Vivian Shipley for Where There Is No Shore (Word Press)
Gloria Vando for Shadows & Supposes (Arte Publico Press)

2003 Winner: Quincy Troupe for Transcircularities (Coffee House Press)

Judge: Laura Boss

Finalists:
Jan Beatty for Bone Shaker (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Peg Boyers for Hard Bread (University of Chicago Press)
Suzanne Cleary for Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Sarah Kennedy for Flow Blue (Elixir Press)
Vivian Shipley for Where There Is No Shore (Word Press)
Gloria Vando for Shadows & Supposes (Arte Publico Press)

2002 Winner: Lilla Lyon for Hello Mongolia (Ten Pell Press)

Judge: Dorianne Laux

Finalists:
Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Necessary Kindling (Louisiana State University Press)
Nin Andrews, Why They Have Wings (Silverfish Review Press)
James Harms, Quarters (Carnegie Mellon Press)
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh, Lick of Sense (Helicon Nine Editions)
Catie Rosemurgy, My Favorite Apocalypse (Graywolf Press)
Frazier Russel, Lush (Four Way Books)