Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry is awarded annually to the best book-length manuscript of original poetry submitted in an open competition. The award is administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison English department, and the winner is chosen by a nationally recognized poet. The resulting book is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The prize was founded in 1994 and honors Felix Pollak, a popular Wisconsin poet and former curator of the Rare Book Room and Little Magazine Collection at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Memorial Library. Among his best-known books are The Castle and the Flaw, Tunnel Vision, and Benefits of Doubt.

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Winners of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

About Crows Craig Blais	Winner of the 2013 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes
Voodoo Inverso Mark Wagenaar	Winner of the 2012 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Jean Valentine
Last Seen Jacqueline Jones LaMon	Winner of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Cornelius Eady
The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House Nick Lantz	Winner of the 2010 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Pinsky
Falling Brick Kills Local Man Mark Kraushaar	Winner of the 2009 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Marilyn Nelson
The Royal Baker’s Daughter Barbara Goldberg	Winner of the 2008 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by David St. John
Reunion Fleda Brown	Winner of the 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Linda Gregerson
Funny Jennifer Michael Hecht	Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins
A Sail to Great Island Alan Feldman	Winner of the 2004 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Carl Dennis
The Year We Studied Women Bruce Snider	Winner of the 2003 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Kelly Cherry
Ripe Roy Jacobstein	Winner of the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Edward Hirsch
Borrowed Dress Cathy Colman	Winner of the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Mark Doty
Ejo Poems, Rwanda, 1991–1994 Derick Burleson	Winner of the 2000 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Alicia Ostriker
Liver Charles Harper Webb	Winner of the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Bly
Mrs. Dumpty Chana Bloch	Winner of the 1998 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Donald Hall
Don't Explain Betsy Sholl	Winner of the 1997 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Rita Dove
Fragments in Us Dennis Trudell	Winner of the 1996 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Philip Levine
The Legend of Light Bob Hicok	Winner of the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Carolyn Kizer
Now We're Getting Somewhere David Clewell	Winner of the 1994 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Henry Taylor

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Updated 3/22/2013