Evil Companions

Evil Companions Literary Award

Thanks to all for attending the 2008 Evil Companions Literary Award! Thank you Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, Dana Crawford, owner of the Oxford Hotel, and Colorado State University Professor of English, David Milofsky, for conceiving and producing this remarkable literary event.

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham is the 2008 recipient of the Evil Companions Literary Award. Widely regarded as one of the leading voices in American poetry today, Graham has published six books of original poems over the past 20 years and edited several anthologies. Her volume of selected poems, titled The Dream of the Unified Field, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. "Each poem," she writes in the introduction to The Best American Poetry 1990, "is an act of the mind that tries – via precision of seeing, feeling, and thinking – to clean the language of its current lies, to make it capable of connecting us to the world."

Click the links below to reserve copies of Graham's books.
Overlord, 2005
Never, 2002
Swarm, 2000
The Errancy, 1997
The Dream of the Unified Field : Selected Poems, 1974-1994, 1995
Materialism, 1993
Region of Unlikeness, 1991
The End of Beauty, 1987
Find out more about Jorie Graham at Poets.org and the Harvard University Gazette.

The Evil Companions

Working to preserve the memory of the original Evil Companions are Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, Dana Crawford, owner of The Oxford Hotel, and Colorado State University Professor of English, David Milofsky. The trio created the literary award and its accompanying event to promote and build upon Denver’s deserved reputation as a center for writing and literature. The Evil Companions event is quickly becoming a local favorite. Proceeds from the event benefit the Denver Public Library.

Evil Companions Previous Honorees

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