Winner of the 2007 NIGHTBOAT POETRY PRIZE:

The All-Purpose Magical Tent by Lytton Smith
Chosen by Terrance Hayes

Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in NYC. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and Verse. A chapbook, Monster Theory, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2008, selected by Kevin Young. He helps run Blind Tiger Poets, an organization to promote contemporary poetry, and Mystery Bench Press. He received an MFA from Columbia University. Lytton is named for Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian novelist who first coined the novel opening, "It was a dark and stormy night."

Forthcoming in April 2009

We also want to congratulate our Finalists:
Kostas Anagnopoulos for Moving Blanket
Kristen Case for The Ice Fishermen
Adam Clay for Nodaway River
Melissa Dickey for The Lily Will (Editors' Commendation)
Josey Foo for The Lily Lillies(Editors' Commendation)
Jill Magi for Compass & Hem
Malinda Markham for Gets Back the Flag from Impose
Gail Segal for Light Raking the Water
Megan Snyder-Camp for The Forest of Sure Things
Allison Titus for Barter,Fasten
G.C. Waldrep for Archicembalo

Winner of the 2006 NIGHTBOAT POETRY PRIZE:

In the Mode of Disappearance by Jonathan Weinert
Chosen by Brenda Hillman

Jonathan Weinert has published poems and reviews in many journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, LIT, and 32 Poems. In the Mode of Disappearance is his first book of poems. He has many years experience editing, desiging, and producing books and Web sites, and serves as Web editor for the letterpress literary journal Tuesday: An Art Project. A graduate of Brandeis University and the Spalding University MFA Creative Writing Program, Jonathan grew up in Wellesley, MA, and has lived in Massachusetts for most of his life. More info, see jonathanweinert.net

ABOUT IN THE MODE OF DISAPPEARANCE BY JONATHAN WEINERT

How can we fully inhabit our own being without doing violence to a world that may be more perfect without us? If the best poem is silence, then how might we articulate the astonishing and terrible facts of our own experience? In the Mode of Disappearance reverses the direction of William Blake's alchemical journey, moving clockwise from North to West, from center to circumference—from the abstract and disembodied to the sensual, particular, and placed. By turns formal and experimental, discursive and fragmentary, In the Mode of Disappearance seeks to build, at the intersection of appearing world and disappearing self, a poetry that can account for and preserve the integrity of both.

Forthcoming in April 2008

Winner of the 2005 NIGHTBOAT POETRY PRIZE:

Glean by Joshua Kryah
Chosen by Donald Revell

Joshua Kryah's poems have appeared in Chelsea, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Verse, among other journals. Glean is his first collection of poetry. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Schaeffer Fellow alumni in poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Joshua was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. More info, see joshuakryah.com

ABOUT GLEAN BY JOSHUA KRYAH

Glean, a reference to the gathering of grain after harvest, explores the appalling trust implicit in any act of faith—that prayer may not elicit a response. Spare and evocative, the collection struggles with a language at odds with itself. How do we write about an absence that can never be fully possessed or known, an absence that may be all we ever glimpse of the divine? When does spirituality become more real than its pursuit? Moving between doubt and vulnerability, the body and its unresolved spiritual fate, these poems dedicate themselves to the pursuit of redemption.

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Winner of the 2004 NIGHTBOAT POETRY PRIZE:

The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson
Chosen by National Book Award Winner, Jean Valentine

Juliet Patterson's work has appeared or is forthcoming in 42opus, The Bellingham Review, Bloom, Conduit, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Journal, Washington Square, Verse and other magazines. Winner of a 2004 SASE/Jerome fellowship in poetry and a 2003 Arts fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board, she lives in Minneapolis with poet Rachel Moritz. More info, see www.julietpatterson.com.

ABOUT THE TRUANT LOVER BY JULIET PATTERSON

Juliet Patterson incorporates the voices of Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker, and Wallace Stevens, drawing into her stunning debut a fascination with the difficult, the improbable, and the uneasy. There is a quiet ferocity to mourn the world's injustice and a passion in her work expressing the perplexities of love, grace, and consciousness. For all their easy fluency of detail and lyrical meticulousness, they are poems not intended for the faint-hearted; they are tough, and unsparing, offering for our consolation only their scrupulous precision.

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