Poetry Student Awards, Publications, and Honors
Publications
Other Honors and Achievements
Columbia College Awards
ALUMNI: We welcome and encourage your news and updates! Please email them to nwilson [at] colum [dot] edu.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Chapbooks
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, WOMB, and many others.
Presses and Magazines
Former and current students have founded or worked for several publishing ventures, including dancing girl press, Switchback Books, House Press, wicked alice, elephant, and others.
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
2008-2009
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Thomas Mowe
2007-2008
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Russell Jaffe
2006-2007
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Brandi Homan
2005-2006
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: 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.
Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival
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
Have more info?
Our records are incomplete. If you have additional information about these awards, or notice that any information is listed inaccurately, please email nwilson[at] colum [dot] edu.
Other Honors and Achievements
Columbia College Awards
ALUMNI: We welcome and encourage your news and updates! Please email them to nwilson [at] colum [dot] edu.
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, 2009)
- 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)
- Natalie Kenvin: Bruise Theory (BOA Editions, 1995)
- Becca Klaver (MFA ’07): Los Angeles 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)
- Daniela Olszewska (BA ’07): Resort to Humming (Scantily Clad Press, 2008), The Autobiography of Jane Doe (dancing girl press, 2008)
- 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)
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, WOMB, and many others.
Presses and Magazines
Former and current students have founded or worked for several publishing ventures, including dancing girl press, Switchback Books, House Press, wicked alice, elephant, and others.
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
2008-2009
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Thomas Mowe
2007-2008
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Russell Jaffe
2006-2007
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: Brandi Homan
2005-2006
Stuckey 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
Commencement Reader: 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.
Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival
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
Have more info?
Our records are incomplete. If you have additional information about these awards, or notice that any information is listed inaccurately, please email nwilson[at] colum [dot] edu.