The following three awards are given to the editors' choice for outstanding work in the current issue.

The Nelson Bentley Editor's Choice Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of this award honoring the late professor of English at the University of Washington. The editors award $500 to Estill Pollock for his poem "Preludes for Prepared Piano."

The poem appears in Issue 29.

Previous winners include:

Cal Kinnear for "Brief," which appeared in Issue 28.

• Estill Pollock for "Natural World," "Engaging Venus," and "Rapunzel Revisited," which appeared in Issue 26.
• Mark Sullivan for "Longest Life Ends," "Attachment," and "Study for an Unfinished Landscape," which appeared in Issue 25.
• Paul Hunter for "The Beauty of the Thing," which appeared in Issue 24.
• Carlo Levy for "The Old Music of Heraclitus," which appeared in Issue 23.

Fine Madness thanks Friends of Nelson Bentley, sponsoring fellowships for Creative Writing MFA students at the University of Washington, the Sara Delano Redmond Fund at the Boston Foundation, Ruth Brinton, and Mac Perkins for making this award possible. [Note: Seattle Poet Catherine Wing, whose work also appeared in Issue 26, was awarded the 2001 Friends of Nelson Bentley Fellowship.]

The Mark Anderson Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of this new award honoring the late Mark Anderson, finely mad Seattle poet and friend. The editors award $500 to Tina Kelley for her poem "On the Collection of 70 Pairs of Shoes..."

The poem appears in Issue 29.

Fine Madness thanks an anonymous donor for the generous gift that makes this award possible.

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The Kay Deeter Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of this year's award honoring the late Kay Deeter, friend and poet from Alaska. The editors award $500 to Matthew Hittinger, for his poem "How to Write, How Not to Write About Pears."

The poem appears in Issue 29.

Thanks again to the Sara Delano Redmond Fund at the Boston Foundation, Ruth Brinton, and Mac Perkins for making this award possible.

The following writers were past winners of the Deeter Award. You can also order the issues that their work appeared in; just drop us a line at FINEMADNESS @ COMCAST.NET

• 2003: David Axelrod for his poem "Indirections."
• 1991: Caroline Knox (for body of work)
• 1990: Molly Tenenbaum & Nancy Lambert (for body of work)
• 1989: Tony Esolen & David Kirby (for body of work)
• 1988: Pattiann Rogers & Marc Hudson (for individual poems)
• 1987: Barb Molloy-Olund & Frank Maloney (for individual poems)
• 1986: David Hopes & Kaija Berleman (for individual poems)
• 1985: Glyn Jones & Melinda Mueller (for individual poems)