2003 Poetry Prize Results

Final Judge: Denise Duhamel

 

 

Denise Duhamel is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) and The Star-Spangled Banner, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize (1999). A winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Poets and Writers’ Writers Exchange Award, she has been anthologized widely, including in several volumes of the Best American Poetry Award.

 


 

2003 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

 

“Regarding the character you named Maria, teacher’s notes”

Alexandra Budny

 


 

Runners-Up


“Jesus at the Help Desk”
Dana Roeser

 

“Puberty”
Roy Jacobstein

 


 

Finalists


“Loblolly Meditations of the Level”
Elton Glaser

 

“Tell Me If You’ve Heard This One”
Susan Ramsey

 

“No Homo”
Douglas Goetsch

 

“In Detroit, circa 1970″
Christine Rhein

 

“The Iraqi Hilton”
Michael Gushue

 

“Road Movie”
Matthew Thorburn

 

“The Pellet with the Poison is in the Flagon with the Dragon”
Michael Gushue

 

“Instructions to the Painter of Our Family Portrait”
Kate Umans

 

“Confession”
Jonas Lerman

 

“Head Heart Health Hands”
James Wilson

 

“The Secret of My Misogyny”
Christian Moody

 


 

We offer our thanks to all who contributed to the success of the 2003 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to IR, which will begin with our Winter 2003 issue.

 
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