We are pleased to announce this year's winner!

Final judge Martha Ronk has selected Endi Bogue Hartigan's manuscript “One Sun Storm” as the winner of the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Hartigan’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Free Verse, Quarterly West, TinFish, New Orleans Review, LVNG, and Insurance. Previous work has appeared in a number of magazines, including the Antioch Review and Northwest Review. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hartigan lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Patrick, and their son, Jackson, and works in communications for the state's university system.

This year's finalists were:

Samuel Amadon, “Like a Sea”
Renee Ashley, “The View from the Body”
Jennifer Frost Banks, “The Ever-Juvenile Eternities”
Anne Blonstein, “and my smile will be yellow”
Julie Carr, “Of Sarah-A Fragment”
Adam Clay, “Nodaway River”
Melissa Dickey, “The Lily Will”
Lauren Haldeman, “The Wolftown Postoffice”
Kristen Hanlon, “Near Life Experience”
Jennifer Kronovet, “Awayward”
Jimmy Lo, “The Sea Is White”
Joy Manesiotis, “Revoke”
J. Michael Martinez, “Heredities”
Rachel Moritz, “Borrowed Wave”
Fred Muratori, “The Spectra”
Amy Newman, “Dear Editor”
Benjamin Paloff, “The Politics”
Jean-Paul Pecqueur, “Big Thinker”
Emily Perez, “The Thief Downstairs”
Jessea Perry, “Persistent World”
Rush Rankin, “The Sensorium”
Michael Robins, “Circus”
Zach Savich, “Forecast”
Keith Shein, “Prowling Even as They Sleep”
Brandon Shimoda, “O Bon”
Maggie Smith, “Hush Now”
Jonathan Thirkield, “The Waker’s Corridor”
Sam Witt, “Occupation: Dreamland”
Lynn Xu, “For an Expedient Return to Wilderness”