Mark Doty [2] has selected San Francisco poet Melissa Stein [3] as winner of the 2010 Honickman First Book Prize from the American Poetry Review (APR). Stein's debut collection, Rough Honey, will be published by APR and distributed by Copper Canyon Press, and she will receive three thousand dollars.

Some of Stein's poems [4], which have appeared in journals such as New England Review, [5] Seneca Review, and the Journal [6], appear on the Web site of her Bay Area writing workshop, Thirteen Ways [7].

Past winners of the APR/Honickman award are:
2009 Laura McKee for Uttermost Paradise Place selected by Claudia Keelan [8]
2008 Matthew Dickman [9] for All-American Poem selected by Tony Hoagland [10]
2007 Gregory Pardlo for Totem selected by Brenda Hillman [11]
2006 David Roderick for Blue Colonial selected by Robert Pinsky [12]
2005 Geoff Bouvier [13] for Living Room selected by Heather McHugh [14]
2004 Kevin Ducey for Rhinoceros selected by Yusef Komunyakaa
2003 James McCorkle [15] for Evidences selected by Jorie Graham
2002 Kathleen Ossip for The Search Engine selected by Derek Walcott [16]
2001 Ed Pavlic for Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue selected by Adrienne Rich [17]
2000 Anne Marie Macari [18] for Ivory Cradle selected by Robert Creeley [19]
1999 Dana Levin [20] for In The Surgical Theater selected by Louise Glück [21]
1998 Joshua Beckman for Things Are Happening selected by Gerald Stern

The next deadline [22] for poets who have not published books to submit manuscripts is October 31.