Prairie Poetry - January 2008 Edition
Winners of the 2007 Peer Awards

Click on the links to read these excellent works recognized by their peers: Leah Browning - The Woman Who Could See Sound — Friends Prize Winner Mary Butler - Loon Larry Schug - Arrogant Bones More Award Winning Poems The Peer Awards were inaugurated in 1999. The awards for 1996, 1997, and 1998 were judged by individual authors. Beginning with the 1999 awards, authors whose work has been published at Prairie Poetry are invited to nominate poems for the Peer Award monthly and select the winners from a group of finalists annually. The criteria for nomination is that, in the judgement of their peers, the craft and vision embodied in these works merit special recognition. The works, usually three, receiving the most nominations for a calendar year are awarded this honor.   To receive a monthly alert when a new edition appears, enter your Email address: (This list is never shared outside of Prairie Poetry.) Click to send:

Many Thanks To The Friends of Prairie Poetry For Their Contributions To The 2007 Friends Prize Ron Beam Dori Patterson Bearce Alan Bender John Blair Gary Blankenship Janet Brennan Geraldine Byrne William Carroll Joe Coffey J Donald Coonrod Laura Dahlke Marc duPlan Christine Emmert Gail Ficher Thomas Flanagan John Gallagher McKenzie Graye Richard Hagen John Heck Debra Kaufman Elisabeth Lee Tracy Magnan Francis Masat Nadine Miller Margaret Mullins Robert H. Nunnally Jr. Jim O'Loughlin Teresa Mary Orton Naomi Patterson Karsten Piper Leslie Quinlan Sandra Raichel Elizabeth Reninger Alexandra Shively Table Round Press Eldon Turner Elizabeth Wiley Please support the annual Friends Prize. 100% of your contribution goes to the poets who make this journal great reading. Click on the image below to give to the 2008 Prize through PayPal

 

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issued 13 January 2008