News Release
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May 15, 2006
Ahsahta Press Announces Winner of 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Competition
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Paige
Ackerson-Kiely |
Paige Ackerson-Kiely of Lincoln, Vermont, is the 2006 winner of the Sawtooth
Poetry Prize. The $1,500 Sawtooth Prize is given annually by Ahsahta Press,
Boise State University’s poetry press.
Ackerson-Kiely’s book, “In No One’s Land,” will be published by Ahsahta in
January. Her manuscript was chosen by D.A. Powell, whose book “Cocktails”
was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Poetry. Powell
chose Ackerson-Kiely’s book from about 500 entries, 24 of which were
finalists for the prize.
Ackerson-Kiely is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and the Vermont
College MFA Program for Writers. Her poems have appeared in the literary
magazines jubilat and Ninth Letter, as well as “Pleiades” and the
“Bellingham Review,” among others. She was recently named the recipient of
the 2006 Poets and Writers Exchange Award.
In addition to Ackerson-Kiely’s manuscript, Ahsahta Press will publish two
finalist manuscripts: “Irresponsibility” by Chris Vitiello of Durham, N.C.,
and “Realm Sixty-Four” by Kristi Maxwell of Tuscon, Ariz. The 2007 Sawtooth
Poetry Prize contest, which will run from Jan. 1 to March 1, will be judged
by poet and scholar Peter Gizzi, author of “Some Values of Landscape and
Weather” and “The House that Jack Built.”
Other finalists include Kristin Bock, Ken Chen, Shira Dentz, Kirk Davis,
Maryrose Larkin, Chloe Joan Lopez, Amy McNamara, Sandra Meek, Mary Molinary,
Martie McCleery Palar, Donna de la Perriere, Marthe Reed, Andrea Rexilius,
Lori Shine, Lytton Smith, Elizabeth Senja Spackman, Connie Voisine, Daneen
Wardrop and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
Ahsahta Press, which is named for the Mandan word for “Rocky Mountain
bighorn sheep,” was founded in 1974. The press publishes five books of
poetry every year, one of which is the winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Ahsahta Press is directed by Janet Holmes, a professor at Boise State who
teaches poetry in the MFA program.
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Contact: Janet Holmes, Ahsahta Press, (208) 426-2195,
jholmes@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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