FELIX POLLAK PRIZE IN POETRY

The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry is awarded annually to the best book-length manuscript of original poetry submitted in an open competition. The award is administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison English department, and the winner is chosen by a nationally recognized poet. The resulting book is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The prize was founded in 1994 and honors Felix Pollak, a popular Wisconsin poet and former curator of the Rare Book Room and Little Magazine Collection at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Memorial Library. Among his best-known books are The Castle and the Flaw, Tunnel Vision, and Benefits of Doubt.

Of related interest
The University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series
Series Editor: Ronald Wallace, English, University of Wisconsin­Madison

This series features new books of poetry by previous Pollak and Brittingham prize-winners.


Past Winners of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Funny Jennifer Michael Hecht	Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins
A Sail to Great Island Alan Feldman	Winner of the 2004 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
The Year We Studied Women Bruce Snider	Winner of the 2003 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Kelly Cherry
Ripe Roy Jacobstein	2002
Borrowed Dress Cathy Colman	2001
Ejo Poems, Rwanda, 1991–1994 Derick Burleson	2000
Liver Charles Harper Webb	1999
Mrs. Dumpty Chana Bloch	1998
Don't Explain Betsy Sholl	1997
Fragments in Us Dennis Trudell	1996
The Legend of Light Bob Hicok	1995
Now We're Getting Somewhere David Clewell	1994

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