Utah State University Press announces that Frances Brent’s The Beautiful Lesson of the I has been selected winner of the 2005 May Swenson Poetry Award. The Swenson Poetry Award is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitations on subject, the competition this year attracted 700 poets from across the U.S. and several other nations. Rachel Hadas was this year’s judge.