Walt Whitman Award

Carl Adamshick

Honored for : Curses and Wishes

J. Michael Martinez

Honored for : Heredities

Jonathan Thirkield

Honored for : The Waker's Corridor

Sally Van Doren

Honored for : Sex at Noon Taxes

Anne Pierson Wiese

Honored for : Floating City

Mary Rose O'Reilley

Honored for : Half Wild

Geri Doran

Honored for : Resin

Tony Tost

Honored for : Invisible Bride

Suji Kwock Kim

Honored for : Notes From the Divided Country

John Canaday

Honored for : The Invisible World

Ben Doller

Honored for : Radio, Radio

Judy Jordan

Honored for : Carolina Ghost Woods

Jan Heller Levi

Honored for : Once I Gazed at You in Wonder

Barbara Ras

Honored for : Bite Every Sorrow

Joshua Clover

Honored for : Madonna Anno Domini

Nicole Cooley

Honored for : Resurrection

Jan Richman

Honored for : Because the Brain Can Be Talked into Anything

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Honored for : Science and Other Poems

Stephen Yenser

Honored for : Fire in All Things

Greg Glazner

Honored for : From the Iron Chair

Elaine Terranova

Honored for : Cult of the Right Hand

Martha Hollander

Honored for : The Game of Statues

April Bernard

Honored for : Blackbird Bye Bye

Judith Baumel

Honored for : The Weight of Numbers

Chris Llewellyn

Honored for : Fragments from the Fire

Christianne Balk

Honored for : Bindweed

Eric Pankey

Honored for : For the New Year

Christopher Gilbert

Honored for : Across the Mutual Landscape

Anthony Petrosky

Honored for : Jurgis Petraskas

Alberto Ríos

Honored for : Whispering to Fool the Wind

Jared Carter

Honored for : Work, for the Night is Coming

David Bottoms

Honored for : Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump

Karen Snow

Honored for : Wonders

Lauren Shakely

Honored for : Guilty Bystander

Laura Crafton Gilpin

Honored for : The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe

Reg Saner

Honored for : Climbing Into the Roots