The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

2010

The winner of the sixth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is The Uncertainty Principle by Mark Kraushaar Mr Kraushaar, of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, USA, has received a cheque for $3,000 and Waywiser will publish The Uncertainty Principle on 8 November 2011. The book will be launched at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. It took the press's screening panel three months of careful reading, deliberation and discussion to narrow the field to the group of finalists which, stripped of all identifying reference, was then sent to the 2010 judge, James Fenton. Waywiser's Senior American Editor, Joseph Harrison, rang Mr Kraushaar with Mr Fenton's decision in the first week of May. Our congratulations go not just to Mr Kraushaar and to those whose manuscripts reached the later stages of the contest – the finalists and semi-finalists are listed below – but to everyone else who entered. It is thanks to everyone who participated that the 2010 contest has been another resounding success. u At the same time as we publish The Uncertainty Principle, Waywiser will be publishing an anthology of poems by some of the contestants who have made it as far as the semi-finals in the first five years of the Hecht Prize. If you would like to read poems by the people who made it that far in the 2010 competition, please click on the relevant name and title below. Most of the poets have a page featuring two of the poems from their manuscript and these are followed by brief biographical notes and publication acknowledgements.     Winner Mark Kraushaar, The Uncertainty Principle   Semi-Finalists and Finalists (in name order) Michelle Bonczek, Through the Skin of This World Daniel Bosch, Death's Doorman Steven Brown , Bone Shine Katy Didden, Avalanche Amy Greacen, A Modern Herbal Karen Holmberg, Axis Mundi Lesley Jenike, Genius of the Place Andrew McCord, Dawn out from Night Patrick Moran, Dopplegangster Sierra Nelson, The Lachrymose Report Kathy Nilsson, The Infant Scholar Jessica Piazza, Interrobang Aaron Poochigian, The Cosmic Purr Alison Powell, On the Desire to Levitate Kathleen Rooney, Robinson Alone Provides the Image Don Schofield, Before Kodachrome Ravi Shankar, The New Transcendence Eric Smith, Black Hole Factory Jane Springer, Murder Ballad Jamie Joel Thomas , Etch and Blur Matthew Thorburn, Every Possible Blue Matthew Thorburn, This Time Tomorrow Mike White, How to Make a Bird with Two Hands