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Blue Light Book Award Winners

2023:

Anna Kodama – Lit Only by a Few Thousand Stars
Mark Tate – Walking Scarecrow
Scott T. Starbuck – Bridge at the End of the World

2022:

Stewart Florsheim – Amusing the Angels
Florence Weinberger – These Days of Simple Mooring: New and Selected Poems

2021:

Emilie Lygren – What We Were Born For
Jennifer Grant – Dangerous Women

2020:

Claudine Nash – Beginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse
Meg Pokrass – Spinning to Mars
Helga Kidder – Loving the Dead

2019:

Martin Willitts Jr., The Temporary World
Francine Witte, Dressed All Wrong for This
David Hurlin, Zero Gravity Funk Libido
Scott Caputo, The Bridge under Construction

2018:

Prartho Sereno, Indian Rope Trick
Susie Meserve, Little Prayers

2017:

John Peter Harn, Physics for Beginners
Kerry Tepperman Campbell, Dreaming of France
George Wallace, Smashing Rock and Straight as Razors

2016:

Cameron Scott, The Book of Cold Mountain
Kirston Koths, One Good Turn
KB Ballentine, The Perfume of Leaving

2015:

Age of Exploration, by Christopher Seid
What We Know So Far, by Robert Scotellaro
Hope is a Muscle, by Betsy Snider

2014:

Bend of Quiet, by Kenneth Pobo
Cellulose Pajamas, by Meg Pokrass

2013:

What Comes of Waiting, by KB Ballentine
Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & the Collected Discography of Morning, by Rustin Larson
A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, by Constance Rowell Mastores

2012:

Gimme Five, by Philip Dacey

2011:

Word Ghetto, by Loretta Walker
Rues, by Philip Kobylarz

2010:

Architects of Light, by Viktor Tichy
Weavings, by Mary Ellen Brannan
Cradling Monsoons, by Sarah McKinstry-Brown

2009:
Oracles for Night-Blooming Eccentrics, by Nancy Berg
Rumors of Shore, by Paul Fisher
2008:
Wednesday After Lunch, by Will Walker
2007:
Under a Prairie Moon, by Susie Niedermeyer
2006:
What We Love, by Ed Meek
2005:
The Short Fall from Grace, by Stewart Florsheim
2004:
Mural, by Alice Rogoff
Walking Backwards, by Ken McCullough

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Blue Light Poetry Prize Winners (chapbooks):
2023:

Michael Jemal – It Began

2022:

Charles Rammelkamp – A Magician Among the Spirits 
Anique Sara Taylor – Civil Twilight 

2021:

Gary Young – Red Cedar, Red Pine

2020:

Barbara Quick – The Light on Sifnos
Kate Aver Avraham – Arms of My Longing

2019:

Lucy Adkins – Two-Toned Dress

2018:

Christine Vovakes – I Didn't Mean to Forget

2017:

Matthew Monte – The Case of the 6-Sided Dream

2016:

Rustin Larson – Pavement
Margo Von Strohuber – Tangled Threads

2015:
Glenn Watt – Walking the Refuge
2014:
Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, by Lucille Lang Day
The Little House on Stilts Remembers, by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
2013:
When I Pick Up My Wings from the Dry Cleaners, by Lisa Cihlar
No Longer an Ingenue, by Megan Robinson
2012:
So Many Gods, by Hallie Moore
2011:
Small Pleasures, by Nikia Leopold
Heart Mountain, by Jodi Hottel
2010:
Copperhead: Tantric Lessons On Love, by George E. James
2009:
Cedar Crossings, by Alixa Doom
2008:
A Theatre of Fine Devices, by Tony Krunk
Coming Unfrozen, by Nancy Tupper Ling
2007:
A Slice of Angel, by Leah Shelleda
2006:
Epicenter, by Michelle Demers
2005:
The Importance of Bone, by Becky Sakellariou
2004:
When You Are Born, by Sarah McKinstry-Brown
2003:
Forgive, by Xue Di
2002:
The Multiplication of Joy into Integers, by Michael Angelo Tata
2001:
Woman at the Onsen, by Laurie Kuntz (out of print)
2000:
Against the Blue, by Christopher Buckley (out of print)
1999:
Where She Goes, by Kate Gray (out of print)
The Weight of the Heart, by Neil Carpathios
1998:
Dreams and Silences, by Constance Egemo (out of print)
1997:
A Light in the Kitchen, by Steve Benson

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