The University of Maine English Department is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Clarine Coffin Grenfell Poetry Prizes, judged by poet Annie Finch, director of the Stonecoast Brief Residency Master of Fine Arts at the University of Southern Maine.
Recipients of the prizes will be recognized at the English Department’s Honors & Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 30, at 3:30pm in the Arthur Hill Auditorium of Barrows Hall. For more information, contact the English Department at 207-581-3822.
First Prize (free verse)
Katie Lattari for “I Break Leaves in Brittle Mornings”
First Prize (traditional form)
Crystal McArthur for “Rebirth”
Second Prizes
Megan Soderberg for “Fluency”
Jessica Putnam for “Reality”
Third Prizes
Virginia Lee Sand for “An American Indian Woman”
Cassandra Lueneburg for “My First Kiss”