Jury
| Name | Profile |
| Helmut Frielinghaus | Journalist, editor, translator, of New York |
| Michael Anania | Poet, writer, and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, La Grange, IL |
| Philip Boehm | Translator and theatre director, of St. Louis, MO |
| Edna Mc Cown | Translator, of FL |
| Peter Filkins | Poet, translator, and professor at Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA |
