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Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards

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The Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards are relatively large prizes given out each year to poets with unpublished manuscripts. In addition to the cash prizes, two winners get published by a university press.

The Crab Orchard Review, a biannual journal of creative works published by the Department of English of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Southern Illinois University Press organize the competition, which gives out $3,500 to two winners. Winners must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Prior to 2009, the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards awarded a first place and a second place. These winners received different prize amounts, but all winning manuscripts were published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Winners

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Year Co-Winner Co-Winner Judge
2013 Dan Albergotti Millennial Teeth TJ Jarrett ZION Rodney Jones
2012 Jeffrey Skinner Glaciology Jason Sommer The Laughter of Adam and Eve Cynthia Huntington
2011 Jacob Shores-Arguello In the Absence of Clocks Wally Swist Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love Yusef Komunyakaa
2010 Brian Barker The Black Ocean Camille Dungy Smith Blue Michael Waters
2009 Todd Hearon Strange Land Jennifer Richter Threshold Natasha Trethewey
Year First Place Second Place Judge
2008 Alison Townsend Persephone in America Jesse Lee Kercheval Cinema Muto David Wojahn
2007 Ciaran Berry The Sphere of Birds Jake Adam York A Murmuration of Starlings Cathy Song
2006 Moira Linehan If No Moon Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Red Clay Suite Dorianne Laux
2005 David Hernandez Always Danger Susan B.A. Somers-Willett Roam Leslie Adrienne Miller
2004 Victoria Chang Circle Greg Pape American Flamingo Richard Cecil
2003 Jon Pineda Birthmark Lee Ann Roripaugh Year of the Snake Ralph Burns
2002 Elton Glaser Pelican Tracks Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Becoming Ebony Tim Seibles
2001 Joy Katz Fabulae Susan Aizenberg Muse Maura Stanton
2000 J. Allyn Rosser Misery Prefigured Julianna Baggott This Country of Mothers Rodney Jones
2000 Oliver de la Paz Names Above Houses Rodney Jones
1999 Marilene Phipps Crossroads and Unholy Water Elton Glaser Winter Amnesties Lucia Perillo
1998 Denise Duhamel Star-Spangled Banner Richard Cecil In Search of the Great Dead Rodney Jones

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