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The James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry

2009 Boatwright Prize Winner

Cathryn Hankla of Roanoke, Virginia is winner of the $1,000 James Boatwright Prize for Poetry for her poem, "Bee Tree," which appeared in Shenandoah 59/2. The Boatwright Prize is made possible by gifts from friends of the late James Boatwright, former editor of Shenandoah. Brendan Galvin of Truro, Massachusetts was the judge.

Hankla is the author of ten books of poetry and fiction, including Last Exposures: A Sequence of Poems (2004) and Texas School Book Depository: prose poems (2000), both from LSU, and two novels, The Land Between (Baskerville, 2003) and A Blue Moon in Poorwater (Virginia,1998). She teaches at Hollins University, where she also directs the MFA and undergraduate Creative Writing programs and is poetry editor of The Hollins Critic.

 

 

This $1,000 prize is awarded annually to the best poem/s published in a volume year of Shenandoah. All poems published in the magazine are automatically considered for the prize.

Past Recipients:

2008:  Brendan Galvin, "This Time," 58/2
2007: David Bottoms, "First Woods," 57/3
2006: Eavan Boland, "Violence Against Women," 56/3
2005: Steve Scafidi, Jr., "The Egg Suckers," 55/1
2004: David Kirby, "I Think Satan Done It," "Scarlet
          Ribbons," 54/2
2003: Cody Walker, “Hephzibah Cemetery, April
          1889,” “New Orleans, August, 1890," 53/4
2002: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Small Murders,” 52/1
2001: Alice Friman, “Otma Rood,” 51/4
2000: Debra Nystrom, “The Cliff Swallows, ” 50/4
1999: Ted Kooser, “Early Morning Walk: Postcards to
          Jim Harrison,” 49/3
1998: Mary Oliver, “Flare,” 48/3
1997: Carolyn Miller, “Under the Magnolia,” 47/3
1996: Margaret Gibson, “Earth Elegy,” 46/4
1995: Eamon Grennan, “Howth, January, 1991,” 45/4
1994: Debra Nystrom, “Fly-Fishing on Tommy's Lake,”
          44/2
1993: Betty Adcock, “To a Young Feninist Who Wants
          to be Free,” “Writing Poems Late,” “The Mind,”
          43/3
1992: James Applewhite, “A Change of Sky,” 42/3
1991: Robert B. Shaw, “December Vespers," "The
          Key," At the Bait Store,” 41/4
1990: Paula Closson Buck, “Little Spanish Poems,”
          40/4
1989: David McKain, “Bus Stop in Soviet Georgia,”
          39/1