28th Annual Northern California Book Awards

And the finalists for
POETRY
are:

Lucky Break
Terry Ehret
Sixteen Rivers Press

Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, New and Selected
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

the true keeps calm biding its story
Rusty Morrison
Ahsahta Press

and...

The Date Fruit Elegies
John Olivares Espinoza
Bilingual Press

To learn who are the finalists in other genres, click here.