Lost Horse Press [4] has announced the winner of the 2009 Idaho Prize for Poetry [5]. Stephen Gibson of West Palm Beach was named the recipient of the one-thousand-dollar prize, which includes publication of his winning collection, Frescoes, by Lost Horse Press. Carolyne Wright [6] judged.
Gibson’s most recent book of poetry is Masaccio’s Expulsion, published in 2008, which won MARGIE/IntuiT House Press’s Robert E. Lee and Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award [7], judged by Andrew Hudgins [8]. His debut collection, Rorschach Art, was published by Red Hen Press in 2001. Frescoes will be released in February of next year.
Two runners-up for the Idaho Prize were also named. They are John Brady for Thunder Shakes the Snake: The Poetry of Cheng Hui and Matthew Thorburn [9] for Every Possible Blue.
The longlisted finalists are John Bensko [10] for Fur Traders on the Missouri, Esther Lee [11] for little lung damage, James McKean for We Are the Bus, Peter Munro for Animal Kingdom, Richard Robbins [12] for Radioactive City, Catherine Staples for Still-Life Breathing, Joe Wilkins for Ragged Point Road, and Maya Jewell Zeller [13] for Rust Fish.
The book prize is given annually in August, and the next deadline for manuscript submissions is May 15, 2010.