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Awards:
- Chris Ransick’s Lost Songs & Last Chances has won the 2007 Colorado Authors League Award for poetry.
- Katie Kingston has won the Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry for her poem "What Does Lorca Own"? The prize is $1,000 and publication in Hunger Mountain.
- Across the High Divide by Laurie Wagner Buyer has been given a 2007 SPUR award for best poetry collection by the Western Writers Association. There will be an awards ceremony in June.
- On Oct. 18, at the annual Colorado Center for the Book gala, Jane Hillberry received the Colorado Book Award for Poetry for her recent book Body Painting (Red Hen Press).
- Beryle Williams’ poem “Packed In” has won First Place in the Traditional Form Category in the annual Columbine Poetry Contest (sponsored by Columbine Poets, the state league affiliated with the National Federation).
- In 2006, Cheryl Loetscher received The Litchfield Review Prize for a selection of five poems, the Wild Goose Poetry Prize for her poem "Surface Tension" and the George F. Wedge Prize for her poem "At the Window, Dancing".
- Cheryl Loetscher's first collection of poems., Unclaimed Baggage, was a finalist in the Finishing Line Press chapbook contest and will be published this spring.
- Aaron Anstett's No Accidents has recently won the 2005 Balcones Prize which recognizes an outstanding book of poetry published during a given year with an award of $1,000.
- Jake Adam York was acclaimed as “Best Prose Pro” in Westword's Denver 2006 Arts & Entertainment section. Murder Ballads was cited, along with his book in progress, Annumeration of Starlings.
- Denver Poet Laureate Announced - Colorado poet Chris Ransick (Colorado Book Award for Never Summer) accepted his appointment by Dever Mayor Hickenlooper as Denver Poet Laureate on March 22. “I’m more than a bit honored and humbled by all this,” Ransick tells the Colorado Poets Center, “but it’s now my role to work on advancing our city’s literary culture, and I’ll do my best.”
- Katie Kingston was a finalist in this year's Main Street Rag Chapbook Award. Her chapbook is available at www.mainstreetrag.com
- Evan Oakley (Windsor, Colorado) won the Dana Poetry Award for his poem "For the Obstinate et. al."
- Aaron Anstett (Pueblo): No Accident received the 2004 Backwaters Prize and is available from Backwaters Press.
- Sigman Byrd (Boulder): Under the Wanderer's Star received the Marsh Hawk Press's Second Annual Poetry Prize and is available from Marsh Hawk Press.
- Jake Adam York's first book of poems Murder Ballads was awarded Elixir Press's fifth annual publication prize.
- Lisa Zimmerman (Fort Collins): How the Garden Looks from Here, received the 2004 Violet Reed Hass Poetry Award and is available from Snake Nation Press.
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