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The seventeenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, NC and District of Columbia) will be presented to the winner on Saturday evening, December 14, 2019 at the Dogfish Inn in Lewes, Delaware. The winner must agree to attend this event and to read from their winning book at a reception honoring the winner. The prize will be officially awarded by Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Distillery, or by another company official.

The Prize consists of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer*, manuscript publication by Broadkill River Press, and 10 copies of the book (in lieu of royalties)

.Previous Winners of The Dogfish Head Poetry Prize

2018 Becky Gould Gibson, Indelible
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2017 Beth Copeland, Blue Honey
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2016 Mary B. Moore, Flicker
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2015 Faith Shearin, Orpheus, Turning
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2014 Lucian Mattison, Peregrine Nation
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2013 Grant Clauser, Necessary Myths
The Broadkill River Press, Milton, DE

2012 Tina Raye Dayton, The Softened Ground
The Broadkill Press, Milton, DE

2011 Sherry Gage Chappelle, Salmagundi
The Broadkill Press, Milton, DE

2010 Amanda Newell, Fractured Light
The Broadkill Press, Milton, DE

2009 David P. Kozinski, Loopholes
The Broadkill Press, Milton, DE

2008 Linda Blaskey, Farm
Bay Oak Publishers, Dover, DE

2007 Anne Agnes Colwell,
Father’s Occupation, Mother’s Maiden Name
Bay Oak Publishers, Dover, DE

2006 Scott Whitaker, Field Recording
Bay Oak Publishers, Dover, DE

2005 Michael Blaine, Murmur
Bay Oak Publishers, Dover, DE

2004 Emily Lloyd, The Most Daring of Transplants
Argonne House Press, Washington, DC

2003 James Keegan Of Fathers and Sons
Argonne House Press, Washington, DC