Poetry Magazine Awards Prizes For FY 2007 |

Poetry Magazine has published the winners of its annual prizes:

The winner of The Levinson Prize is Mary Kinzie. Kinzie’s poems were published in the November 2006 and September 2007 issues of Poetry Magazine. She won $500.

Conor O’Callaghan won The Bess Hokin Prize and $500 for poems published in May and July/August 2007.

In February 2007, Jason Guriel had prize-winning poems published in Poetry. He is the winner of The Frederick Bock Prize.

The winner of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize is Heidi Steidlmayer, who was also awarded $5,000. She was published in the June 2007 issue of Poetry Magazine.

Michael Hoffman, for translations from Gottfried Benn published in October 2006, was $500 and The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation.

The Friends of Literature Prize was awarded to Todd Hearon for a poem published in January 2007. He won $500.

$1,000 was awarded to Clive James for taking The Editors Prize for Feature Article in the December 2006 and February 2007 issues of Poetry Magazine.

Brian Phillips won The Editors Prize for Reviewing and $1,000 for reviews published in December 2006.

Poetry Magazine is one of the oldest and most respected poetry journals in the U.S. World Class Poetry congratulates each of these winners of these very prestigious prizes.