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Announcing Winners of the 2008 New
Letters Readers Awards,
distinguished by readers from volume 74, issues 1, 2, 3, and 4:
Winning Poem:
"Hangman," by
Jennifer Maier
Winning Essays (a tie):
"How to Succeed in Po Biz," by
Kim Addonizio, and
"Mrs. Wright's Bookshop," by
Thomas Larson
Winning Story: "Two
Studies in Entropy," by Sara Pritchard
Essay Runner-Up:
"Authority," by Kelly Cherry
Poetry Runner-Up:
"Ultrasound," by Kristin Berger
Honorable Mentions:
In Fiction: "Intercourse: Couples in Six
Short Stories," by Robert Olen Butler; "In Africa," by Edward
Hoagland; "Mixed Breeding," by Scott Solomon; "Honesty," by Ellen
Wilbur;
"Black Step," by Daniel Woodrell.
In Poetry: "Blue Room," by Peter Balakian; The Inferno
of Dante Alighieri, Cantos I-V, a new translation, by Mary Jo Bang; "Once
Out of Nature," for Jim Simmerman 1952-2006, by Mark Irwin; "some
other god," by Michael Joyce; "The Palmer Method," by William Trowbridge.
In the Essay: "Why I Write Now," by Kelly Cherry.
Other Writers Distinguished by Our Readers:
Willis Barnstone, Beverly Blasingame, Deborah Bogen, Catherine Browder,
Patricia Clark, Desmond Egan, Nathan Englander, B.H. Fairchild, Inge Genefke,
Robert Gibb, Albert Goldbarth, M. Nasorri Pavone, David Ray, Adrienne Su, Melvin
B. Tolson, David Wagoner, Nancy White, Anne-E. Wood.