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2005 Poetry Prize Results
Final Judge: Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of ten books, including Desesperanto (Norton 2003); Winter Numbers, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Award of The Nation magazine and the Academy of American Poets in 1995; Selected Poems, which was awarded the Poets' Prize in 1996; the verse novel Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons, and Squares and Courtyards, which appeared in 2000. First Cities, a collection of her first three books, including the National Book Award-winning Presentation Piece, was also published in 2003. She Says, a translated collection of Vénus Khoury-Ghata's poems, in a bilingual edition, was published by Graywolf Press in 2003; Birds and Bison, translations of poems by Claire Malroux, will be published by Sheep Meadow Press in fall 2004. She lives in New York and Paris, and teaches at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

2005 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner:
Box Series
Rebecca Dunham

Runner-Up
“Etymology for Clam Diggers”
Darcie Dennigan

Runner-Up
“What I Hold”
Jessica Piazza

Finalists

“Noodling: A Documentary”
Jessica Lindberg
“In a Sauna in Trumansburg”
Ed Weathers
“Mapless City”
Stan Rubin
“Pike Place Fish Market, Seattle”
Kathy Dull
“Othello...In Connecticut...In 1925”
Eric Clark Van Cleve
“Celestial Navigation”
Elinor Benedict
“Final Letter”
Sandy Tseng
“Pre-Autopsy”
Cynthia Edlow
“Disengagement: Mendocino County, California”
Edie Rhoads
“Zamboni Has Left the Building”
Nancy Everett

“Leah Speaks of the Wilderness of Monkeys”
Linda Dove

“Compasses”
Julie Gamberg
“Plunder”
“Augenblick”
Gail Martin
“Hotel Window, Capitol Hill”
Genine Lentine
“A Rush of Bees”
“On Learning the Percentage of Non-Professional Head Neck Massages Which Do Not Lead to
Sexual Intercourse”
Susanna Childress

For results of our 2004 Poetry Prize, click here.


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