The Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards are relatively large prizes given out each year to poets with unpublished manuscripts.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 ''

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'', a biannual journal of creative works published by the Department of English of

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, 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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Jeffrey Skinner Jeffrey Skinner is an American poet, writer, playwright, and emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisville. His most recent collection of poetry is ''Salt Water Amnesia'', (Ausable Press, 2005). Skinner is editor ...

''Glaciology'' , , Jason Sommer ''The Laughter of Adam and Eve'' , , Cynthia Huntington , - , 2011 , , Jacob Shores-Arguello ''In the Absence of Clocks'' , ,

Wally Swist Wally Swist (born 1953) is an American poet and writer. He is best known for his poems about nature and spirituality. Biography Swist was born April 26, 1953, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is rumoured he attended Yale University but not confir ...

''Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love'' , , Yusef Komunyakaa , - , 2010 , ,

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Camille Dungy Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an American poet and professor. Career Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA. She is the author of four ...

''Smith Blue'' , , Michael Waters , - ,

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Todd Hearon Todd Hearon (born ) is an American poet, songwriter, dramatist and fiction writer. He is the author of three collections of poems -- STRANGE LAND, NO OTHER GODS and CROWS IN EDEN -- a number of plays and essays, and a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD. ...

''Strange Land'' , , Jennifer Richter ''Threshold'' , ,

Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U ...

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Alison Townsend Alison Townsend (born Pennsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. Life She grew up in New York. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her work has appeared in ''Calyx'', ''Clackamas Literary Review'', ' ...

''Persephone in America'' , ,

Jesse Lee Kercheval Jesse Lee Kercheval (born 1956) is a poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably ''Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, ...

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David Wojahn David Wojahn (born 1953, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts ...

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Ciaran Berry Ciaran Berry (born 1971 Dublin) is an Irish-American poet. Life He grew up in Carna, County Galway and Falcarragh, County Donegal. He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow. He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford Tr ...

''The Sphere of Birds'' , , Jake Adam York ''A Murmuration of Starlings'' , , Cathy Song , - ,

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Moira Linehan Moira Linehan is an American poet born in 1945. She graduated from Boston College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, with an MFA. She lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she worked as an academic administrator. She has been a resident at the ...

''If No Moon'' , , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ''Red Clay Suite'', , Dorianne Laux , - ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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Leslie Adrienne Miller Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956) is the author of five collections of poems. Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Miller holds a B.A. from Stephens College, an M.A. from the University of Missouri, and a ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

, , Victoria Chang ''Circle'' , , Greg Pape ''American Flamingo'', , Richard Cecil , - ,

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Jon Pineda Jon Pineda (born Charleston, South Carolina) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Life Jon Pineda was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has appeared ...

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Lee Ann Roripaugh Lee Ann Roripaugh (born 1965) is an American poet and was the South Dakota poet laureate from 2015 to 2019. Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five volumes of poetry: tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), Dandarians (Milkweed, Ed ...

''Year of the Snake'', ,

Ralph Burns Ralph Joseph P. Burns (June 29, 1922 – November 21, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Early life Burns was born in Newton, Massachusetts, United States, where he began playing the piano as a child. In 1938, he attend ...

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Elton Glaser Elton Glaser is an American poet. He has published collections of poetry and been published in literary magazines. Life He is a native of New Orleans, is a retired Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Akron, and forme ...

''Pelican Tracks'' , ,

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian (African Diaspora) poet and writer and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University. She is a Liberian Civil War survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991, ...

''Becoming Ebony'', , Tim Seibles , - ,

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Joy Katz Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.Poem: ''electronic poetry review 3'' > ''A desk chai'' by Joy Katz* _''How_I_feel_about_topiary''_by_Joy_Katz.html" ;" ...

''Fabulae'', , Susan Aizenberg ''Muse'', ,

Maura Stanton Maura Stanton (born September 9, 1946) is an American poet, and writer. Biography Maura Stanton was born to Joseph Stanton, a salesman, and Wanda Haggard Stanton, a nurse, in Evanston, Illinois. She received her B.A. from the University of Mi ...

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J. Allyn Rosser Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet. Life She grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey. She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and Eng ...

''Misery Prefigured'', ,

Julianna Baggott Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. She is a 2013 ...

''This Country of Mothers'', , Rodney Jones , - ,

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Oliver de la Paz Oliver de la Paz is an American poet and educator. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including ''Requiem for the Orchard'' ( University of Akron Press, 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry. His honors include a 2005 New York Fo ...

''Names Above Houses'' , , Rodney Jones , - ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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''Winter Amnesties'' , , Lucia Perillo , - ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been ...

''Star-Spangled Banner'' , , Richard Cecil ''In Search of the Great Dead'', , Rodney Jones

Winners

See also