Annual Prizes
- Boatwright Prize
- Carter Prize
- Goodheart Prize
The Glasgow Prize
for Emerging Writers
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The James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry ($1,000)
David Bottoms
is winner of the $1,000 James Boatwright Prize for Poetry for his poem,
“First Woods,” which appeared in Shenandoah 57/3. The Boatwright
Prize is made possible by gifts from friends of the late James
Boatwright, former editor of Shenandoah. Eavan Boland of
Stanford, California was the judge. Bottoms has received the Walt
Whitman Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the founding editor of
Five Points and has been since 2000 the Poet Laureate of the
State of Virginia. Bottoms is the author of two novels, and his
collections of poetry include Armored Hearts (1995, Vagrant
Grace (1999) and Waltzing through the Endtime (2004), all
from Copper Canyon Press.
The Boatwright Prize for Poetry recipients:
2006: Eavan Boland, "Violence Against Women," 56/3
2005: Steve Scafidi, Jr., "The Egg Suckers," 55/1
2004: David Kirby, "I Think Satan Done It," "Scarlet Ribbons," 54/2
2003: Cody Walker, “Hephzibah Cemetery, April 1889,” “New Orleans,
August,
1890," 53/4
2002: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Small Murders,” 52/1
2001: Alice Friman, “Otma Rood,” 51/4
2000: Debra Nystrom, “The Cliff Swallows, ” 50/4
1999: Ted Kooser, “Early Morning Walk: Postcards to Jim Harrison,” 49/3
1998: Mary Oliver, “Flare,” 48/3
1997: Carolyn Miller, “Under the Magnolia,” 47/3
1996: Margaret Gibson, “Earth Elegy,” 46/4
1995: Eamon Grennan, “Howth, January, 1991,” 45/4
1994: Debra Nystrom, “Fly-Fishing on Tommy's Lake,” 44/2
1993: Betty Adcock, “To a Young Feninist Who Wants to be Free,” “Writing
Poems Late,” “The Mind,”
43/3
1992: James Applewhite, “A Change of Sky,” 42/3
1991: Robert B. Shaw, “December Vespers," "The Key," At the Bait Store,”
41/4
1990: Paula Closson Buck, “Little Spanish Poems,” 40/4
1989: David McKain, “Bus Stop in Soviet Georgia,” 39/1
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