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Binghamton Book Awards for 2007


The Binghamton University Book Awards are sponsored by The Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University-State University of New York with the support of the Harpur Dean's Office.

THE 2007 BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
MILT KESSLER POETRY BOOK AWARD
Denise Duhamel for Two and Two
from University of Pittsburgh Press

Judge: Laura Boss

If poetry were a physical sport, the energy, daring, and speed would qualify Denise Duhamel's poems in Two by Two for the Olympics. Yet with all her language electricity, Duhamel's generous and intelligent voice retains its power to connect with the reader on the deepest emotional landscape.

Laura Boss is the founder & editor of LIPS. Her books of poetry include the prize-winning On the Edge of the Hudson; also Reports from the Front, Stripping, and Arms: New and Selected Poems.

Kessler Award Finalists for 2007:
(in alphabetical order)
Judith Ortiz Cofer for
A Love Story Beginning in Spanish (U of Georgia Press)
Martin Espada for
The Republic of Poetry (W.W Norton)
Alicia Suskin Ostriker for
No Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Rochelle Ratner for
Balancing Acts (Marsh Hawk Press)
David Ray for
Music of Time: Selected and New Poems (Backwaters Press)
Anele Rubin for
Trying to Speak (Kent State University Press)

THE 2007 BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD
Rachel Kadish for Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
from Houghton Mifflin

Judge: Grace Cavalieri

This is a book to place in a time capsule if we want to show the sensibilities of our culture
at this time --- a sparkling piece of fiction that shoulders the weight of history,
literature, and human relationships with equipoise. Kadish writes of our humanity
with style and humor. She knows what makes a novel worth reading, and how to
structure it so that big ideas feel as natural as the afternoon sun.

Grace Cavalieri is a writer with 14 books and 21 plays to her credit. She produces
"The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" for public radio.

Gardner Award Finalists for 2007:
(in alphabetical order)
Gonzolo Barr for
The Last Flight of José Luis Balboa (Houghton Mifflin Co)
Cary Holladay for
The Quick-Change Artist (Swallow Press)
Todd James Pierce for
Newsworld (University of Pittsburg Press)
Terese Svoboda for
Tin God (University of Nebraska Press)
Robert Vivian for
The Mover of Bones (University of Nebraska Press)
Katharine Weber for
Triangle (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Allen Wier for
Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press)

 

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