2010 Kanterman Book Award Winners Announced

[Billie Wilson]

2010 Kanterman Book Award Winners

The Haiku Society of America has announced the 2010 winners of the Kanterman Awards for books published in 2009. Seattle haiku poet and newspaper publisher Mike Dillon served as judge. The results are as follows. The judge's complete comments and book ordering details will appear in Frogpond.

Congratulations to each of the winners!

First Place ($500)
Live Again, by John Stevenson. Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 2009.

Second Place ($100)
Pacific, by Ce Rosenow. Hillsboro, Oregon: Mountain Gate Press, 2009.

Third Place ($50)
A Gate Left Open, by Alice Frampton. Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 2009.

Special Award for Fiction
Haiku Wars, by David G. Lanoue. Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 2009.

Best Criticism (Tie)
Walden by Haiku, by Ian Marshall. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Haiku and Modernist Poetics, by Yoshinobu Hakutani. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Best Anthology
Seeing Stars, edited by Michael Dylan Welch. Seattle, Washington: Haiku Northwest, 2009.

[AlanSummers]

Thanks for the results Billie! ;-)

I'm particularly pleased that John Stevenson's collection won first prize.  A while back I posted a review of this book on the Haiku Foundation.  As I can't locate it at present, it just so happens to be in the current issue of haijinx: http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/reviews/liveagain.html

Congratulations to John Stevenson! ;-)

Alan

[colin stewart jones]

well done to all

col :)