Poetry Student Awards, Publications, and Honors

Publications
Other Honors and Achievements
Columbia College Awards

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PUBLICATIONS

Books and Chapbooks

• Hanna Andrews (MFA '07): a/long/division (Tilt Press, 2009)
• Kristy Bowen (MFA '07): girl show (Ghost Road Press, 2009), in the bird museum (Dusie Press, 2008), The Fever Almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006), Feign (New Michigan Press, 2007)
• Tyler Flynn Dorholt (MFA '09): Dog the Man a Star (Scantily Clad Press, 2009)
• Kate Dougherty (MFA '08): We Trundle We Ignite (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming)
• Carolyn Guinzio (BA): Quarry (Parlor Press, 2008), West Pullman (Bordighera Press, 2005)
• Brandi Homan (MFA '07): Bobcat Country (Shearsman Books, 2010), Hard Reds (Shearsman Books, 2008), Two Kinds of Arson (dancing girl press, 2007)
• Russell Jaffe (MFA '08): G(*)D (Pudding House Press, forthcoming)
• Natalie Kenvin: Bruise Theory (BOA Editions, 1995)
• Becca Klaver (MFA '07): LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (the greying ghost press, 2008)
• Jennifer Martenson (BA '94): Xq281 (Burning Deck, 2001)
• Tisha Nemeth-Loomis (MFA '09): Terrain of My Affection (Fractal Edge Press, 2011)
• Daniela Olszewska (BA '07): Resort to Humming (Scantily Clad Press, 2008), The Autobiography of Jane Doe (dancing girl press, 2008)
• Izzy Oneiric (MFA '10): From the Bombshell Shelter (Main Street Rag Press, 2010)
• Kristen Orser (MFA '08): Folded Into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm (the greying ghost press, 2009), Wilted Things (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), Squint (dancing girl press, 2009), Winter, Another Wall (blossombones, 2008), E AT I: (Wyrd Tree Press, 2009), Fall Awake (Taiga Press, 2008)
• Steven (MFA '06) and Maja Teref: Assembly: Selected Poems of Novica Tadić (Host Publications, 2009)
• Andrew Terhune (MFA '09): Handle This Bludgeon and Run Me Through (Tilt Press, 2009), Helen Mirren Picks Out My Clothes (the greying ghost press, 2009)
• Luis H. Valadez (BA, '04): what i'm on (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
• C. McAllister Williams (MFA '10): William Shatner (Alice Blue Books, 2010)
• Susan Yount (MFA Candidate): House on Fire (Tilt Press, 2010)

Journals and Magazines
Poems and translations by students and alumni of the Creative Writing--Poetry BA and MFA programs have appeared in recent issues of 6x6, Action Yes, AGNI, Black Clock, The Black Warrior Review, can we have our ball back?, Caketrain, Circumference, Coconut, Conduit, Cranky, CutBank, DIAGRAM, elimae, Elixir, Foursquare, H_NGM_N, Keep Going, The Kenyon Review, La Petite Zine, LUNGFULL!, MiPOesias, New American Writing, No Tell Motel, Parthenon West Review, Pebble Lake Review, Poetry, RealPoetik, Redivider, Salt Hill, Shampoo, Typo, Versal, WOMB, 1913, and many others. Poems by students and alumni have also appeared on the websites Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.

Presses and Magazines
Former and current students have founded or worked for several publishing ventures, including allwritethen, dancing girl press, House Press, Phantom Limb Press, Switchback Books, Tammy, Wave Books, wicked alice, and more.

   OTHER HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Graduates of the Columbia College BA and MFA Creative Writing--Poetry programs have gone on to establish national reputations. Graduates include Elaine Equi, who was on the International Shortlist for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize for Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems, and Connie Deanovich, winner of a coveted Whiting Prize of $30,000 and author of Watusi Titanic and Zombie Jet. Mary Jo Bang, who served as student editor of Columbia Poetry Review no. 6 while a student here, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Elegy. Two MFA students, Ian Harris and Hanna Andrews, have been finalists for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE AWARDS

2010-2011
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Benicia Blue (1st place), Zachary Green (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Ryann Wahl; Honorable mention: Kelly Forsythe
Minds of Winter Readers: Sarah Jedd, Zachary Green, Kayla Sargeson, Nathan Masters, Jessica Dyer Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Katherine Sanchez

2009-2010
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Adam Lizakowski (1st place), Zachary Green (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Stephen Danos; Honorable mention: Yulya Mykhiel Deych
Minds of Winter Readers: Louis Bardales, Thomas DeRoma, Kelly Forsythe, Steve Smaczniak
Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Carl Aagesen

2008-2009
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Abi Stokes (1st place), Colleen O’Connor (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Andrew Terhune. Honorable mention: Yulya Mykhiel Deych.
Minds of Winter Readers: Eric Unger, Natasha White, Chris Williams, Yvette Thomas
Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Thomas Mowe

2007-2008
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Jesse Crouse (1st place), Rachel Finkelstein (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Kate Brady. Honorable mention: Joe Eldridge.
Minds of Winter Readers: Kate Dougherty, Meghan Lee, Joe Bly, Jesse Crouse
Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Russell Jaffe

2006-2007
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Jen Watman (1st place), Rachel Finkelstein (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Aaron Flanagan, Stephen Dvorak. Honorable Mention: Russell Jaffe, Daniela Olszewska.
Ruth Lilly Nomination: Julie Rouse
Minds of Winter Readers: Aaron Flanagan, Ian Harris, Julie Rouse, BJ Soloy
Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Brandi Homan

2005-2006
Elma Stuckey Poetry Award: Donna Pecore (1st place), BJ Soloy (2nd place)
Lannan Award: Lindsay Bell, Daren Thurman.  Honorable Mention: Maggie Lopez, Nolan Chessman.
Ruth Lilly Nomination: Becca Klaver
Allen & Lynn Turner Commencement Poetry Competition: Danielle Aquiline

2004-2005:
Lannan Award: John Franklin Dandridge, Angela Mullenhour.  Honorable Mentions: Marissa Spaulding, Marlon Esguerra.
 
2000-2001
Lannan Award: Greg Pokarney. Honorable Mention: Stefani Iryne, Elizabeth Andersen.

Selected Readers, Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival:

2010-2011: Nick Narbutas

2009-2010: Abi Stokes
2008-2009: Richard Dugan
2007-2008:  Jess Rose
2006-2007:  Jen Watman
2005-2006:  Jacob Saenz
2004-2005:  Kimiko Ostrozovich
2003-2004:  Natalie Hill
2002-2003:  Ric Cleary
2001-2002:  Sarah Pearl
2000-2001:  Jennifer Grutzmacher
1999-2000:  Ryan Kulefsky