Winner of the 1998 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Mark Strand About the Book: “There is a Wordsworthian grandeur about Michael White’s poems, a rhetorical and emotional fullness that is breathtaking. His attention to the shifting complexity of the natural world, his precise diction, his finely tuned cadences carry with them an unusual power, […]

Winner of the 1997 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Jane Miller About the Author: Catherine Webster is a poet, teacher, and third-generation California farmer who lives in the San Joaquin Valley. Her book of poems The Concept of Bodily Objects was also published in 1997. She has edited Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology […]

Winner of the 1996 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Charles Wright About the Author: Bruce Beasley grew up in Macon, Georgia, and won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1992. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Spirituals and The Creation, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award in […]

Winner of the 1995 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Charles Simic About the Book: “Although his work comes out of the poetries of Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Frank O’Hara and James Tate, Young has his own original voice. The language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems is astounding. […]