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78th ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD | The Commonwealth Club

AlYoung.Org congratulates all of the Commonwealth Club’s 2009 California Book Award poets

View this year’s California Book Award recipients in all categories

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Gold Medal Winner

August Kleinzahler

SLEEPING IT OFF IN RAPID CITY: Poems New & Collected

awards-kleinzahler2 August Kleinzahler (Farrar Straus Giroux)

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Silver Medal Winner

Dan Bellm

PRACTICE

danbellmauthorphoto-practice Dan Bellm (Sixteen Rivers Press)

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Finalist

Victoria Chang

SALVINA MOLESTA

victoria-change-2 Victoria Chang (University of Georgia Press)

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Finalist

CS Giscombe

PRAIRIE STYLE

cs_giscombe01 C.S. Giscombe (Dalkey Archive Press)

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Finalist

Cecilia Woloch

NARCISSUS

cecilia_woloch Cecilia Woloch (Tupelo Press)

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