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Here are this year's judges for the Pulitzer in poetry: Cynthia Huntington, professor of English, Dartmouth University (Chair) Rafael Campo, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School *Claudia Emerson, professor of English, Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA *past Pulitzer Prize winner Here are the judges who gave the award in 2006 to Claudia Emerson: Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, Syracuse University (Chair) Michael Harper, poet and professor, Brown University *Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, Garland, NE *past Pulitzer Prize winner The finalists for 2006 were: Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "American Sublime" by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press), and "Elegy on Toy Piano" by Dean Young (University of Pittsburgh Press). Rather than the image of Joseph Pulitzer in Heaven bestowing the prize from on high, I can imagine a scenario of deal-making by a cultural conservative impacting both the years 2006 & 2007. Barry Alpert