Awards
In 1982 Lucy received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature for her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets’ Workshop and Press). She has received many subsequent awards for her writing.
“Whether her subject is neural folds, hatching turtles, tumors, or self-planting seeds, Lucille Day’s tight poetic descriptions take us effortlessly toward our inevitable relationship with other forms of matter. The poet’s range widens to include a sequence of dramatic moments in which the painful ironies of family life are coupled to tender appraisals of marriage, child rearing, and domestic obligations.” — Robert Pinsky, David Littlejohn, and Michael Rubin, Judges, Joseph Henry Jackson Award
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“In Praise of the Jellyfish,” Grand Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest, 2008
“Fear of Science,” Janice Farrell Poetry Prize, 2007
“Aunt Ethel Please,” Honorable Mention, Passager Poetry Contest, 2006
Awards
2009
Willow Review Award for Creative Nonfiction for “Stalked”
Pushcart Prize nominations from Červená Barva Press for “Artists” and “The Liberation of Baghdad”
2008
Grand Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “In Praise
of the Jellyfish”
Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Woman”
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award, for “The Last Slave”
Honorable Mention, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, for “Fate of the Universe”
Honorable Mention, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, for “Shoplifter”
2007
First Prize, Janice Farrell Poetry Prize, Soul-Making Literary Competition, for “Fear of Science”
First Prize, Poetry Contest of Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, for “Earth Music”
Finalist, Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, for The Curvature of Blue
Semi-finalist, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, for The Curvature of Blue
Semi-finalist, Paumanok Poetry Award, Visiting Writers Program of Farmingdale
State College, New York
Honorable Mention, Jewel by the Bay Poetry Contest, for “Aunt Ethel, Please”
Pushcart Prize nominations from Červená Barva Press for “Counting” and “A Death”
2006
Finalist, Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers
Finalist, Blue Light Book Award, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)
Second Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “God of the Jellyfish”
Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “The Poem’s Feet”
High Distinction, Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Poetry, for “Color of the Universe”
Honorable Mention, Passager Poetry Contest, for “Aunt Ethel, Please”
Honorable Mention, Society for Humanistic Anthropology Poetry Contest, for “I Always Knew It”
2005
Second Place, Blue Light Book Award, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)
Finalist, Dorset Prize, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)
Finalist, Červená Barva Press Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers
Finalist, Poetry West Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers
Finalist, Two Rivers Review Chapbook Prize, for The Book of Answers
Semi-finalist, Paumanok Poetry Award, Visiting Writers Program of Farmingdale
State College, New York
Pushcart Prize nomination from River Styx for “Mictlantecutli at the Health Museum”
2003
Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Song of the
Slender Salamander”
1999
Third Prize, Ann Fields Poetry Contest, for “Birth of the Universe,” “Fear of Science,” and “Self-Portraits at the Health Museum”
1998
First Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Dancers”
Third Prize, Barbara T. Ewing Poetry Contest of the Maryland Poetry Review for “Converting”
1996
Appalachia Poetry Prize for “Tracking”
1982
Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope
1979
Third Prize, Free Verse, Chabot College Spring Arts Festival, for “The Bed and the Boxcar”
Third Prize, Southern California Chapter of the California State Poetry Society, for “Glass Animals”
Honorable Mention, Galbraith Memorial Prize of the Academy of American Poets, UC Berkeley, for group of eight poems
1977
First Prize, Poets of the Vineyard Annual Poetry Competition, for “Edge”
Fourth Prize, Hibiscus Press Poetry Contest, for “Heart Patient”
1971
Honorable Mention, Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize Competition in Lyric Poetry, UC Berkeley, for group of seven poems
