2009 Poetry Prize Results

Final Judge: Natasha Trethewey

 

 

Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. Her poetry collections, Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), have received numerous awards and accolades, including the 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

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2009 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

 

“First Shift at the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project”

Tom Christopher

 

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Runners-Up

“Greenwood Resident the Afternoon After the Riot”
Tom Christopher

 

“Crow”
Robert Peake

 

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Finalists

“Lilies, Stone Fruit, Bitter Herbs”
Melanie Drane

 

“Blackbird in the Open Field”

Ansel Elkins

 

“How I Feel When It Stops”
Gail Martin

 

“Quiet Country”
Jeff Miles

 

“My Daddy’s Casket”
Anand Prahlad

 

“The Hanging Tree, 1916″
Spencer Michael Seward

 

“In the Sadness Museum”
Susan Thomas

 

“Moonblind”
Jared Walls

 

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We offer our thanks to all who contributed to the success of the 2009 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to IR, which will begin with our Winter 2009 issue.