Presented to: Holly Ann Welker
For: "Feet";"Patience";"On My Father's 50th Birthday";"The Birthday Present"
The awards committee stated, "In these poems this gifted young poet writes of simple but significant human experience in a controlled style which is vibrant with color and humor and joy. We commend her for these auspicious beginnings and, echoing the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman, we greet her at the beginning of a bright and promising literary career."