2002 Poetry Prize Results

Final Judge: Mark Doty

 

 

Mark Doty‘s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven’s Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. He lives in New York City, and in the fall of 2009, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

 


 

2002 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

 

“The Wrestler’s Shower”

Zyskandar A. Jaimot

 


 

Finalists


“Hemispheres”
Ted Mathys

 

“A History of Tranquilizers”
Marlys West

 


 

Honorable Mentions


“Instrumentality”
Ravi Shankar

 

“Why I Hate Realism”
Marc McKee

 

“Dog Bites Rocket”
Marlys West

 

“What’s Best”
Christian Horlick

 

“The Capital Lawn”
Clare Banks

 

“The Science of Rain”
Thea S. Kuticka

 

“Wheels”
Stephen Bluestone

 

“Rookie”
Michael Dumanis

 

“Hoffman Street: Tallies & Sentinels”
Darcie Dennigan

 

“Gulls”
Doren Robbins

 

“In Lieu of Elegy”
Patricia Hill

 

“Two City Prose Poems”

“Ghosts in This Place”
Charles Vandersee

 

“Bad Girls Say White”
Elizabeth Brewster Thomas

 

“The Rainy Season”
Michael Dumanis

 

“Self-Portrait in Warsaw, With My Least Favorite Color (1986)”
Karen Kovacik

 


 

We offer our thanks to all who contributed to the success of the 2002 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to IR, which will begin with our Winter 2002 issue.

 
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