Finalist: Elegy for the Southern Drawl , by Rodney Jones (Houghton Mifflin )
The Jury
The Jury
Alan Williamson(chair )
poet, professor of English
Bonnie Costello
poet, professor of English
Yusef Komunyakaa*
poet, professor
Winners in Poetry
2000 Prize Winners
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
Photo Staff
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.