The Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to many prestigious, and community-minded poets, publishers and writers over the years. Here is a list:

Louisa Solano (Former owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop)

Sam Cornish (First Boston Poet Laureate)

David Godine (David Godine, Inc., publisher)

Jack Powers (Founder of Stone Soup Poets)

Frank Bidart (Renowned Poet and Critic)

Afaa Michael Weaver (Poet, Tufts/Kingsley Award-winner)

Robert Pinsky (Former Poet Laureate of the U.S.)

Robert K. Johnson (Poet, first Ibbetson Street Press poetry editor)

Most of these Awards were presented at the Somerville News Writers Festival from 2003 to 2010. The winner is given a cash reward, and a plaque.

Gloria Mindock is being awarded this honor for her long years as an editor, publisher, director, poet, her commitment to the community, and grassroots organizing.

Mindock is the founder of the Cervena Barva Press (http://www.cervenabarvapress.com), edited the Boston Literary Review for many years, headed an award-winning theater troupe, and is a widely published poet and author.