Bluestem Poetry Award Winners

The Bluestem Poetry Award is no longer being offered.

For 15 years we published collections of poetry by poets from all over the country. Winners were chosen by guest judges and received a publishing contract and cash prize.


2005


Thomas Dukes

Baptist Confidential

Judge: Jeffrey Thomson

2004


Matthew Spireng

Out of Body

Judge: Vivian Shipley

2003


Patricia Hooper

Aristotle's Garden

Judge: B.H. Fairchild

2002


Elizabeth Tibbetts

In the Well

Judge: Elizabeth Dodd

2001


Cheryl Lachowski

Homing

Judge: Christopher Howell

2000


Katharine Whitcomb

Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems

Judge: Lucia Perillo

1998


Mary Crockett Hill

If You Return Home with Food

Judge: Mark Cox

1997


Jacqueline Berger

The Mythologies of Danger

Judge: Alberto Alvaro Rios

1996


Lesley Dauer

The Fragile City

Judge: Jonathan Holden

1995


George Looney

Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh

Judge: Henry Carlile


1995


Carlos Reyes

A Suitcase Full of Crows

Judge: Henry Carlile

1994


Edison Dupree

Prosthesis

Judge: Heather McHugh

1993


John Hodgen

In My Father's House

Judge: Vern Rutsala


1992


Robert Gregory

Boy Picked Up by the Wind

Judge: Madeline DeFrees

1991


Margaret Holley

The Smoke Tree

Judge: James Tate

1990


Jill Breckenridge

How to Be Lucky

Judge: William Stafford

1989


Ger Killeen

A Wren

Judge: Michael Heffernan