Congratulations to:

Bob Hicok, winner of the 2008 Bobbitt National Poetry Prize, awarded biennially by the Library of Congress. Hicok won for his latest collection, This Clumsy Living. (He splits the $10,000 prize with Charles Wright, who is being recognized for lifetime achievement.)

Pitt Press poets Bob Hicok and Reginald Shepherd, who've been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2008. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. Hicok's latest collection is This Clumsy Living; Shepherd's is Fata Morgana.

Bob Hicok for This Clumsy Living and Cathy Song for Cloud Moving Hands, both finalists for the this year's Paterson Poetry Prize, given annually by The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.

Afaa Michael Weaver, whose newest collection The Plum Flower Dance has received the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Sharon Crowley, author of Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, winner of the 2008 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Conference on College Composition and Communication). This is the fourth prize Crowley has won for this book.

Thomas Rickert, winner of the Gary A. Olson Award from JAC for the best book published in 2007 in rhetoric and cultural studies for his work Acts of Enjoyment.

Byron Hawk, whose work A Counter History of Composition was awarded the W. Ross Winterowd Award from JAC. The award is for the best book published on composition theory.

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