{"id":8897,"date":"2008-02-11T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/02\/11\/thn-announces-2007-readers-choice-"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:32","slug":"thn-announces-2007-readers-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/02\/11\/thn-announces-2007-readers-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"THN<\/i> announces 2007 Readers’ Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heron’s Nest<\/em> Readers’ Choice Awards for 2007<\/a><\/strong> were announced last night (illustration by Doris Thurston). Congratulations to skipping stones<\/a><\/em> editor Chad Lee Robinson<\/strong>, who was the Grand Prize winner in both categories — Poem of the Year and Poet of the Year. (This will perhaps be a year for handing the torch to a new generation in both poetics and politics: Chad was born in Pierre, SD, in 1980.) This is the favorite poem from Volume IX of The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

buffalo bones
\nwind less than a whisper
\nin the summer grass<\/p>\n

……………………….. by Chad Lee Robinson,
\nThe Heron’s Nest<\/a><\/em>, Reader’s Choice Poem of the Year 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This year, eighty-eight “readers” took the time to muse over and evaluate the 485 poems that (after review by “five critical editors”) appeared in The Heron’s Nest<\/em><\/a> in 2007. As often happens (see our “such naches<\/a>” posting this time last year), members of our f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Poet family were prominently represented among the winning Readers’ Choice poems and poets. To wit:<\/p>\n

Favorite Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Runner-up:<\/p>\n

circle of lamplight \u2014
\nI complete the baby quilt
\nbegun for me<\/p>\n

…………………. Carolyn Hall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second Runner-up:<\/p>\n

between windows
\nthe space the spider
\nlived and died
\n………………… Tom Clausen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Poet of the Year: <\/strong><\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n

First Runner-up <\/font><\/p>\n

……………. John Stevenson <\/font><\/p>\n

Second Runner-up <\/font><\/p>\n

……………… Carolyn Hall <\/font><\/p>\n

Third Runner-up <\/font><\/p>\n

……………….. Yu Chang<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/blockquote>\n

The Heron’s Nest Vol. IX<\/em><\/a> (due April 2008) [cover<\/a> detail, Jamie Edgecombe]
\nAs The Heron’s Nest<\/em>‘s founding editor Christopher Herold reminds us:<\/p>\n

\n

Full coverage of the awards, including an overview, editorial commentary,
\nthirty additional poems that merit inclusion in the “special mention”
\nsection, and comments by several voters will all be presented along with
\nthe four quarterly issues in their entirety in the paper edition of
\nVolume IX, due to come out early in April.<\/p>\n

The cost to purchase a copy of Volume IX is $16 in the United States,
\nu.s.$18 in Canada or Mexico, and u.s.$20 elsewhere. Please make checks
\nor money orders payable in U.S. funds to The Heron’s Nest<\/em> or
\nChristopher Herold and send to:<\/p>\n

The Heron’s Nest<\/em>
\nChristopher Herold, Ed.
\n816 Taft Street
\nPort Townsend, WA 98368<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here to see the winning illustrations<\/a> that will be included in the paper edition of THN IX<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No poet can have more than 8 poems accepted for publication in THN in any year. Only John Stevenson (who is has now taken over<\/a> as Managing Editor at THN<\/em> and will no longer by gracing its pages with his poetry) and Yu Chang had 8 poems in THN Volume IX. Carolyn Hall had six. You’ve already seen them here at f\/k\/a, but here is a reprise of a pair of haiku from each of our aptly-named Honored Guests:<\/p>\n

Mother\u2019s Day
\nfilling the bare spots
\nwith nasturtiums<\/p>\n

scudding clouds \u2014
\nthe creak of wagon wheels
\nthrough Grandfather\u2019s journal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…………………………………………………….. by Carolyn Hall<\/a>
\n“deep autumn” – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>, Vol. IX:2 (June 2007:)
\n“scudding clouds \u2014” – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> Vol. IX: 3 (September 2007).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

lucky bamboo
\na single leaf
\ntipped with sun<\/p>\n

longer days
\na nameless bug
\non my bicycle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. by Yu Chang<\/a> – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>, Vol. IX:2 (June 2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

spring morning \u2014
\nthe hand of a student who
\nmay know the answer<\/p>\n

\n

the rooster\u2019s
\nfirst five syllables . . .
\nall he\u2019s got<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

.\u2026 by John Stevenson<\/a> – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>, Vol. IX:2 (June 2007) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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