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Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction

Fall 2008 Finalists

Cynthia Arrieu-King, L'Assemblée Nationale

Craig Davis, The Dirt Birds Miss You, Chasey Ln

Tina Egnoski, Perishables*Winner*

Dana Elkun, Black Box Theatre as Abandoned Zoo

Michael Hartford, Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

Amelia Martens, The Doppelgängers' Daughter

Mark Minster, Home Scars and Oak Apples

Letitia Moffitt, Model Homes

Peter Moore, The Doppel Gang

E. K. Mortenson, Placing Light

Edward Mullany, The Quiet Hour

Katharine Rauk, Basil

Phoebe Reeves, The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate

Nicole Louise Reid, We Want it Back

Mark Smith-Soto, Eros Agape

Eleanor Stanford, Brood Chamber

Nancy Takacs, Sitting Outside the Store Inspire

Christian Teresi, Like Shining from Shook Foil

Dan Tremaglio, Oasis

Mark Wisniewski, End of Season

George Young, Nietzsche's Horse

Fall 2008 Semi-Finalists

Mary Armstrong, Winter Quarters

Tantra Bensko, Soul Waves

R. Steve Benson, A Light in the Kitchen

Anne Blonstein, Episodic Gardens

Larsen Bowker, Altering the Motion of the Landscape

Lisa Buchanan, Artifacts from the American Century

Mark Crosby, Selected Poems

Diane Shipley DeCillis, Crime and Sweets; Nest

James Dickson, Cloven

Juditha Dowd, What Remains

Doris Ferleger, Another One of These Days

Mark Fitzpatrick, Diva

William Ford, Descending with Miles

Clinton Frakes, Under the Aching Unrest of Spheres

Ed Frankel, Tools with a Voice

Terry Godbey, Shiver and Spark

Shilin Hora and Patricia Clark, Tree as Temple

Dan Howell, One Continuous Mistake

Charlotte Innes, More Moon than Moon

Luke Johnson, After the Last Hymn

Marie Kane, Survivors in the Garden

Byron Kanoti, Everything Is Impossible but Something Had to Happen

Sari Krosinsky and Robert Arthur Reeves, A Tale in Poems

Suzanne Levine, Haberdasher's Daughter

Kevin McKelvey, Deam Wilderness

Daniel Magers, Humoresque

Tara Masih, Little Fictions

Mark Minster, The North Pacific Gyre

E. K. Mortenson, Another One of These Days

Dorothy North, Pilgrim Heart

Barbara Paparazzo, The Red Silk Scarf

Tony Peyser, Untitled

Robert Phelps, Present Sense

William Franklin Postle, L.A. Cat

John Pursley, A Story without Poverty

Renee Rossi, Still Life

Judi Rypma, Worshiping at Lenin's Mausoleum

Marie Shield, That Which Changes Everything

Jeanine Stevens, Day Moon Watching

Robin Throne, A Feminine Ending

Benet Tvedten, In and Out of the Cloister

Emily Vizzo, Parts of the Hour

Rhett Watts, No Innocent Eye

Stephen Lloyd Webber, Greet the Fence

Arisa White, Post Pardon

Robert Wood, Gates of Paradise

Claire Zoghb, Riding the Bus in Alexandria