Publishers have 15 more days to make their nomination for the Library of Congress” biennial Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Poetry Prize. Nominations for the $10,000 may be made for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author in 2004 or 2005. The selection will be made by a prize jury of three judges selected by a committee of four people – the Poet Laureate Consultant, the Librarian of Congress and two others appointed by the Academy of American Poetry and the Bobbitt family. Read the full press release below:

Library of Congress Seeks Nominations for 2006 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Poetry Prize

Former winners of the award have included:

1990: James Merrill, “The Inner Room”
1992: Shared by Louise Gluck, “Ararat,” and Mark Strand, “A Continuous Life”
1994: A.R. Ammons, “Garbage”
1996: Kenneth Koch, “One Train”
1998: Frank Bidart, “Desire”
2000: David Ferry, “Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations”
2002: Alice Fulton, “Felt”
2004: B.H. Fairchild, “Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest