Winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Cal Bedient About the Book: “Frayed escort puts a speedboat motor in the avant of avant-garde and immediately enters strange waters. Evading every opportunity to be obvious and tedious, the poetry somehow skips beyond even the need to be subtle: it is simply un­imaginably imaginative […]

Winner of the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Forrest Gander About the Book: “In agile lines that canyon-open, exposing an unfashionable, edgy sinceritas, Rusty Morrison explores the intertwining of life and language in quiet, gorgeous meditations inflected by barn swallows. Whethering leads us into a shapely attentiveness to those particular others—human, animal, vegetal—that […]

Winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Donald Revell About the Book: “The poetry of G. C. Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and conversational by turns. And the turning is telling; it comes round right. Bright idioms become bright branches, and the branches become the further architecture of Word. Christopher Smart […]

Winner of the 2002 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Fanny Howe About the Book: “These poems are unconventional, deep, independent, un-American, all-American, hip, tragic, observant, skitterish, critical, political, crushed, brushed, funny. It is the range of motion and emotion in them that makes them matter.” — Fanny Howe, final judge and author of Selected […]

Winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Jorie Graham About the Book: “A Summer Evening urgently and beautifully explores conflicting circular and linear sensations of time. Embodying that dismembering dichotomy in undated digital time-markers–thus refusing to indicate whether we are, at any given moment, moving forward or backward–it compels us to leap […]