Winners of the 2011 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest,
Marilyn Nelson, Judge

FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)
BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Ne Dirvatur Fuga Temporum

Second Prize, $250
BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Li Po and the Moon

Third Prize, $100
Anna Scotti, of Santa Monica, California, for Twelve

First Honorable Mention
Steve Lautermilch, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for Basho Mujo

Second Honorable Mention
Trent Nutting, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for Air Raid

Third Honorable Mention
Josephine Yu, of Tallahassee, Florida, for Cock, an Etymology

Honorable Mention poets receive a one year subscription to Comstock Review

Special Merit Recognition goes to:

BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Halo
Jennifer Chapis, of Brooklyn, New York, for Living Alone
Donna Coffey, of Waleska, Georgia, for House Boat
Becky Dennison Sakellariou of Kifissia, Greece, for Wing Bones
Kirsten Dierking, of Arden Hills, Minnesota, for Kayak
Rebecca Foust, of Ross, California, for On the Runway
Carol Frith, of Sacramento, California, for Exposed River
Tonissa Saul, of Brooklyn, New York, for Nails
Nancy Hewitt, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, for Heard
Rachel Langille, of Mission Viejo, California,
for Returning from Vermont
Peter Ludwin, of Kent Washington, for Trail of Compassion, Baker City, Oregon
Debra Marquart, of Ames, Iowa, for Invasive
Trent Nutting, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for Old Shoes
Connie Post, of Livermore, California, for Advice to the Dog Sitter
and Structurally Sound
Lisa D. Schmidt, of Federal Way, Washington, of Loose Ends
Anna Scotti, of Santa Monica, California, for Around the World in Forty Years
Sarah Sousa, of Ashfield, Massachusetts, for The Art of Flying
Paul Weidknecht, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, for Plantation’s Corn
Josephine Yu, of Tallahassee, Florida, for Word of Warning
Geraldine Zetzel, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
for This Will Only Hurt for a Minute

All poems are screened by the Comstock Review Editors.
Editors and Final Judge do not know the poets’ names until winners are selected.
This year’s Honorable Mention poems were selected by Marilyn Nelson.

Please note:  we are still reviewing submissions and finalists who will be featured in the Awards issue.  We will be notifying people by mid-November 2011.

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Prize Winners for 2007, Carolyn Forché, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
       Sally Albisio from Port Angeles, WA "Beggar’s Purse"
2^nd Prize: ($250) Casey Charles from Missoula, MT "Stay"
3^rd Prize:  ($100) Steven Lautermilch from Kill Devil Hills NC
       "Confession and Penance,   For Paul Cezanne"
4th Prize: ($50)  J.T. Ledbetter from Thousand Oaks, CA "Child of the Palouse"
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Prize Winners for 2006, Thomas Lux, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Allan Peterson from Gulf Breeze FL "Antipyretic"
2^nd Prize:($250) Greg Larson from Richfield, MN "Vertebrae"
3^rd Prize: ($100) Lynn Levin from Southhampton, PA "To Hair"
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Prize Winners for 2005, Cornelius Eady, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Jamie Ross from Carson, NM,   "Elope" 
2nd Prize: ($250)  Paul Aviles from Syracuse, NY, "Mizu- The Word for Water"
3rd Prize ($100)   Therése Halscheid from Haddonfield, NJ, "Trash Day"
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Prize Winners for 2004, Molly Peacock, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Judson Evans, from Holbrook, MA: "Window Washer"   
2nd Prize:     Karen Mandell, from Needham, MA:  "Portrait of a Lady, 1801-1834
3rd Prize: Mimi Walter Hinman, from San Jose, CA: "Mulberry Ghazal"
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Prize Winners for 2003.  David St. John, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Stacie Cassarino from South Windsor, CT , "Half June"  
2nd Prize: Kathryn E. Clement, "Nighthawks (Edward Hopper, 1941)"
3rd Prize:  R. G. Evans ,  "To The Flayed Goat ...."
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Prize Winners for 2002:  Kelly Cherry, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award. $1,000
     Melanie Almeder "Poem for the Man Who Does Not Answer the Phone"
2nd Prize $250        Andrea Potos:  "Emily Dying"
3rd Prize:  $100          Autumn McClintock:  "On Harris Hill"
4th Prize: $50          Melanie Drane:    "Buddy Breathing" 
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Prize Information	About the Poet
PRIZE WINNERS FOR 2001,                     The Perfection  First Prize Mureil Craft Bailey Award:  $1,000	Mary Oliver, Judge by Paul Hostovsky  Paul Hostovsky lives in Millis, MA where h works as an interpreter for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf.  His poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and The Lyric, among others, and his first book, Sonnets from South Mountain, came out in 2001.
Invitation to Rockaway 2nd Prize: $200	by Jennifer Keller (New York, NY)
What the Mother Skunk Told Her Babies 3rd Prize: $100	by Melissa Montimurro (Layton, NJ)

Prize Information	About the Poet
Tornado Year 2000 First Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Award Prize: $1000 Judge: Stephen Dobyns	by Elaine Christensen Elaine Christensen was born in Frankfurt , Germany. An army-brat, she grew up in Japan, across the United States, and back in Germany, as a teenager, where she attended a girl’s German school for three years...
Hereafter 2nd Prize: $250	by Janell Moon (Emeryville, CA)
RPM 3rd Prize: $100	by Jarret Keene (Tallahassee, FL)

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