Award Winning Poets

Two Sixteen Rivers authors were recently awarded prizes in the annual poetry contest sponsored by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. Congratulations to Nina Lindsay, author of Today's Special Dish, who was awarded $1000 and to Gillian Wegener, author of The Opposite of Clairvoyance, who was awarded $7500. The winning poems can be read at http://dorothyprizes.org/. Click on 2007 Prize Winners in the left-hand column and then click on the authors' names to see their work.
And...Helen Wickes, author of In Search of Landscape, and Nina Lindsay have been nominated for the inaugural Northern California Independent Booksellers Association awards to be announced in April, 2008. Congratulations, and good luck to Helen and Nina!

AWP Conference

A good time was had by all at the AWP Conference held in New York City from January 31 to February 2. We went to readings, lectures, panels, and tributes for a wide variety of poets and on a wide variety of topics. Dan Bellm, author of Practice, participated in an excellent reading at the 92nd Street Y, and all members of the press took turns manning the Sixteen Rivers table at the vibrant and exciting book fair. Now we are looking forward to next year's conference to be held in February in Chicago. (The photos are Dan Bellm and Gillian Wegener, top, and Terry Ehret and Gillian Wegener, bottom, taken at the Sixteen Rivers table.)