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Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

2001 Honoree

Stone Bench in an Empty Park

Judges also selected Paul B. Janeczko to receive an honor award for Stone Bench in an Empty Park (Orchard Books)—a collection of haiku poems that celebrate city life, illustrated with black-and-white photos by Henri Silberman.

“I love the clean lines and open spaces of this book, and the subtlety of the haiku and the pristine black and white photos of mostly city scenes. I like the premise of discovering poetry in the ordinary things around us,” wrote one judge about Stone Beach in an Empty Park.

 

Light-Gathering Poems
Light-Gathering Poems
Light-Gathering Poems

2001 Winner:

Light-Gathering Poems by Liz Rosenberg

The 2001 winner was Liz Rosenberg for the anthology Light-Gathering Poems (Henry Holt & Company, Inc.), a collection featuring authors such as Dickinson, Frost, Stafford and Keats. Rosenberg arranged the poems alphabetically and included biographical notes for those who wish to learn more about a poet or poem in the anthology.

The judges explained their selection of Light-Gathering Poems with the words “expansive, beautiful, classical, great choices, accessible—just the kind of poems to turn children on to the music and sound of the words.” One judge remarked, “This is the kind of book I could see a young person keeping and cherishing and returning to over and over again.”