For the second year running, a Minnesota poet has won the Tupelo Press annual Snowbound Chapbook Poetry Award. Anna George Meek, whose work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other places, will receive $1,000 and 50 copies of her chapbook.

Meek, who teaches at the Loft Literary Center, has also won the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships, and many other honors. Her work, "Engravings: A Pictorial Dictionary of Visual Curiosities 1851," was chosen from among 850 submissions from around the world. This year's judge was Ellen Dore Watson..

Last year's winner was Kathleen Jesme of Inver Grove Heights. Having back-to-back winners from Minnesota "has got to be a million to one shot," said Tupelo Press editor in chief Jeffrey Levine. "And the other oddity is that we have a Sandra Meek on our list already. So the Meeks are inheriting the Earth."

"Kath Jesme is actually one of my writing partners, and it was she who encouraged me to submit this year," Meek said Wednesday. "Having two winners in a row from Minnesota may be 'a million-to-one shot,' as Jeffrey says. But don't you think those odds and this coincidence say something about the arts in Minnesota? This state is just jam-packed with amazing writers I feel lucky to be counted among." The Tupelo Press is a small literary press located in Massachusetts.