Walt Whitman Award
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2018 Brute by Emily Skaja
2017
Eye level : poems by Jenny Xie
2016
Afterland : poems by Mai Der Vang
2015 Rapture by Sjohnna McCray
2014
The same-different :
poems by Hannah Sanghee Park
2013
Put your hands in by Chris Hosea
2012
Black aperture :
poems by Matt Rasmussen
2011 Eyes, Stones by Elana Bell
2010 Curses and wishes by Carl
Adamshick
2009 Heredities by J. Michael Martinez
2008 The waker's corridor by Jonathan
Thirkield
2007 Sex at noon taxes by Sally Van
Doren
2006 Floating city by Anne Pierson
Wiese
2005 Half wild by Mary Rose O'Reilley
2004 Resin by Geri Doran
2003
Invisible
bride : poems by Tony Tost
2002
Notes from the
divided country : poems by Suji Kwock Kim
2001 The invisible world by John
Canaday
2000 Radio, radio by Ben Doller
1999
Carolina ghost woods by Judy
Jordan
1998
Once I gazed at you in wonder by
Jan Heller Levi
1997
Bite every sorrow :
poems by Barbara Ras
1996
Madonna anno domini by Joshua
Clover
1995
Resurrection
by Nicole Cooley
1994
Because the
brain can be talked into anything by Jan Richman
1993
Science and
other poems by Alison Hawthorne Deming
1992
The fire in
all things by Stephen Yenser
1991
From the iron
chair : poems by Greg Glazner
1990
The cult of the right hand by
Elaine Terranova
1989
The game of
statues by Martha
Hollander
1988 Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard
1987
The weight of numbers by Judith Baumel
1986 Fragments from the fire: the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of March 25, 1911 : poems by Chris Llewellyn
1985
Bindweed by Christianne Balk
1984
For the new
year by Eric Pankey
1983
Across the
mutual landscape by Christopher Gilbert
1982
Jurgis
Petraskas by Anthony Petrosky
1981
Whispering to fool the wind by
Alberto Ríos
1980
Work, for the
night is coming by Jared Carter
1979 Shooting rats at the Bibb County
Dump by David Bottoms
1978
Wonders by
Karen Snow
1977
Guilty
bystander by Lauren Shakely
1976
The
hocus-pocus of the universe by Laura Gilpin
1975
Climbing into
the roots by Reg Saner