Past winners of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
The Resurrection Machine by Steve Gehrke, selected by Miller Williams
Kentucky Swami by Tim Skeen, selected by Michael Burns
Escape Artist by Terry Blackhawk, selected by Molly Peacock
Fence Line by Curtis Bauer, selected by Christopher Buckley
The Portable Famine by Rane Arroyo, selected by Robin Becker
Wayne’s College of Beauty by David Swanger selected by Colleen J. McElroy
Airs & Voices by Paula Bonnell, selected by Mark Jarman
Black Tupelo Country by Doug Ramspeck, selected by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Tongue of War by Tony Barnstone, selected by B. H. Fairchild
Mapmaking by Megan Harlan, selected by Sidney Wade
Secret Wounds by Richard Berlin, selected by Gary Young
Axis Mundi by Karen Holmberg, selected by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Beauty Mark by Suzanne Cleary, selected by Kevin Prufer
Border States by Jane Hoogestraat, selected by Luis J. Rodríguez
One Blackbird at a Time by Wendy Barker, selected by Alice Friman
The Red Hijab by Bonnie Bolling, selected by H. L. Hix
All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman, selected by Kate Daniels
Sweet Herbaceous Miracle by Berwyn Moore, selected by Enid Shomer
Latter Days of Eve by Beverly Burch, selected by Patricia Spears Jones
Dark Braid by Dara Yen Elerath, selected by Doug Ramspeck
Past winners of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction
A Bed of Nails by Ron Tanner, selected by Janet Burroway
I’ll Never Leave You by H. E. Francis, selected by Diane Glancy
The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories by Billy Lombardo, selected by Gladys Swan
Necessary Lies by Kerry Neville Bakken, selected by Hilary Masters
Love Letters from a Fat Man by Naomi Benaron, selected by Stuart Dybek
Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein, selected by Marly Swick
Dangerous Places by Perry Glasser, selected by Gary Gildner
Georgic by Mariko Nagai, selected by Jonis Agee
Living Arrangements by Laura Maylene Walter, selected by Robert Olen Butler
Garbage Night at the Opera by Valerie Fioravanti, selected by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Boulevard Women by Lauren Cobb, selected by Kelly Cherry
Thorn by Evan Morgan Williams, selected by Al Young
King of the Gypsies by Lenore Myka, selected by Lorraine M. López
Heirlooms by Rachel Hall, selected by Marge Piercy
The Owl That Carries Us Away by Doug Ramspeck, selected by Billy Lombardo
When We Were Someone Else by Rachel Groves, selected by Hilma Wolitzer
Stone Skimmers by Jennifer Wisner Kelly, selected by Stewart O’Nan
One of Us by Scott Nadelson, selected by Amina Gautier
