Under the Blue Light

We are pleased to announce our 2009 Poetry Prize Winner. But first I'd like to thank final judge was Natasha Trethewey. Ms. Trethewey’s most recent collection Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin 2006), won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in several volumes of Best American Poetry. Thank you, Ms. Trethewey, for reading and selecting our winner! And without further ado:

2009 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

“First Shift at the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project”
Tom Christopher

Runners-Up

“Greenwood Resident the Afternoon After the Riot”
Tom Christopher

“Crow”
Robert Peake

Keep your eye out for Tom Christopher's poem and other finalists' poems in our Winter Issue Vol. 31.2. Congratulations again to Tom, and thank you to everyone who entered the poetry contests.