2015 Poetry Advisory Committee: William Brockman, Steven Herb, Julia Kasdorf, Christopher Walker
2015 Poetry Selection Committee: Le Hinton, Erin Murphy, Jeff Oaks
2015 Poetry Posters designed by Wilson Hutton.
Video - Award Ceremony (entire program)
"Taut and inventive, Paul Siegell...captures the restlessness and richness of our situation: busy but often stalled in traffic, hungry for some communication with a larger consciousness but deeply skeptical about final meanings."
From Poemergency Room by Paul Siegell, Otoliths Books
"Mary Szybist's marvelously constructed 'Apology' makes perfect use of the villanelle form. The interlocking rhyme and repetition of lines emphasize the very nature of apology: the dreadful back-and-forth between what was said and what should have been said."
Mary Szybist, “Apology” from Granted
"With 'Losing,' Tameka Cage Conley creates a masterful poem that understands with grief it is the image that whispers loudest. With each image we experience the desolation of loss, the even greater emptiness of the unknowable future."
From Fledgling Rag, Issue 11
"'This Weather' is a poem full of love, ache, and desire's freighted duties, the 'heavy-/handed strangeness' that can arrive suddenly, surprisingly, between parents and children."
From Beautiful Nerve by Sheila Squillante, Tiny Hardcore Press