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Finalist: Search Party: Collected Poems , by William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin )

Winners

Prize Winner in Poetry in 2005:

Ted Kooser

Poetry

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Poetry in 2005:

The Jury

Linda Gregerson(chair )

Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English

James Baker Hall

professor of English emeritus and poet laureate of Kentucky

Wesley McNair

poet

Winners in Poetry

2005 Prize Winners

Staff

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