Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
William Stafford (1914-1993) is the author of more than 50 books and a recipient of the National Book Award for Traveling Through the Dark. After serving as Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1970, he was named Oregon’s Poet Laureate in 1975.

Remembered as the “Emily Dickinson of Oregon,” the reclusive Hazel Hall (1886-1924) was wheelchair-bound from the age of twelve in her Northwest Portland home. Her books include Curtains, Walkers and Cry of Time.

Award Winners and Finalists-Poetry
Note: Winners indicated in boldface type.

2005
Judith Barrington of Portland, Horses and the Human Soul (Story Line Press)
Laton Carter of Eugene, Leaving (The University of Chicago Press)
Vern Rutsala of Portland, A Handbook for Writers (White Line Press)
Maxine Scates of Eugene, Black Loam (Cherry Grove Collections)

2004
David Biespiel of Portland, Wild Civility
James Grabill of Portland, An Indigo Scent After the Rain
Henry Hughes of Monmouth, Men Holding Eggs
Christopher Johnston of Ashland, Violent Homeland
Lisa M. Steinman of Portland, Carslaw’s Sequences

2003
Jane Bailey of Salem, The Fine Art of Postponement
Casey Kwang of Ashland, Copia
Robert McDowell of Talent, On Foot, in Flames
Rita Ott Ramstad of Brightwood, The Play of Dark and Light
Clemens Starck of Dallas, China Basin

2002
Lois Baker of Portland, Man Covered With Bees
Joseph Millar of Eugene, Overtime
Carolyn Reynolds Miller of Salem, Rising and Falling
Willa Schneberg of Portland, In The Margins Of The World

2001
Karen Braucher of Portland, Sending Messages Over Inconceivable Distances
Tom Bremer of Portland, Just Once
Dorianne Laux of Eugene, Smoke
Ralph Salisbury of Eugene, Rainbows of Stone
Floyd Skloot of Amity, The Evening Light

2000
Bill Deemer of Eugene, Variations
Jeff Meyers of Portland, Hereafter
Judith Montgomery of Portland, Passion
Primus St. John of West Linn, Communion
George Venn of La Grande, West of Paradise

1999
casey l.b. kwang of Talent, on blue felix paper
Kim Stafford of Portland, A Thousand Friends of Rain
Clemens Starck of Dallas, Studying Russian on Company Time
Pimone Triplett of Eugene, Ruining the Picture

1998
Diane Averill of Beavercreek, Beautiful Obstacles
Michele Glazer of Portland, _It Is Hard to Look At What We Came to Think We’d Come to See_
James Grabill of Portland, Listening to the Leaves Form
Robert Hill Long of Eugene, The Effigies
Sandra Stone of Portland, Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Café

1997
David Biespiel of Portland, Shattering Air
Donna Henderson of Monmouth, Transparent Woman
T.R. Hummer of Eugene, Walt Whitman in Hell
Lawson Fusao Inada of Ashland, Drawing the Line
Lisa M. Steinman of Portland, Ordinary Songs

1996
Barbara LaMorticella, Rain on Waterless Mountain
Carlos Reyes, A Suitcase Full of Crows
Jim Shugrue, Small Things Screaming
Clemens Starck, Journeyman’s Wages

1995
James Grabill, Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone
Vern Rutsala, Little-known Sports
Floyd Skloot, Music Appreciation
Elizabeth Wood, Luminaries of the Humble

1994
Henry Carlile, Rain
Tom Crawford, Lauds
Jane Glazer, Some Trick of Light
Doug Marx, Sufficiency
Steven Sher, Traveler’s Advisory
Floyd Skloot, Poppies

1993
Lois Baker, Tracers
Lawson Inada, Legends from Camp
Peter Jensen, Erik Muller and David Johnson, Confluence
Lisa M. Steinman, A Book of Other Days

1992
James B. Hall, Bereavements
Christopher Howell, Sweet Afton
Vern Rutsala, Selected Poems

1991
Diane Averill, Branches Doubled Over with Fruit
Robert A. Davies, Tracks in Oregon
Sharon Doubiago, Psyche Drives the Coast
Nan Hannon, Sky River

1990
Primus St. John, Dreamer
Maxine Scates, Toluca Street (two winners)

1989
Judith Barrington, History and Geography
John Daniel, Common Ground
Lex Runciman, The Admiration’s
Lisa M. Steinman, All That Comes to Light

1988
Tom Bremer, A Bird That Changes Trees
Sharon Doubiago, Oedipus Drowned
Ingrid Wendt, Singing the Mozart Requiem

1987
John Haislip, Seal Rock
Vern Rutsala, Ruined Cities

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