BTW News Briefs

Changing Hands Receives Spirit Award

Changing Hands Bookstore, a 31-year-old independent bookseller based in Tempe, Arizona, was one of five companies that received the 2005 Spirit of Enterprise Award on September 27. The award is presented by the Center for the Advancement of Small Business at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to recognize ethics and excellence in entrepreneurship.

The awards were presented at the ninth-annual Edward Jones Spirit of Enterprise Award luncheon at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa.

The 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Shortlist

On September 28, the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine announced the finalists for the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States during 2004. The winner of the prize will be announced in October.

The finalists, chosen from more than 150 entries, are: Poems New & Selected by Marianne Boruch (Oberlin College Press); Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf); Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press); New and Selected Poems by Michael Ryan (Houghton Mifflin); Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine (Wesleyan University Press); and The Displaced of Capital by Anne Winters (University of Chicago Press).