Douglas Barbour, President of NeWest Press's Board of Directors, was inducted into Edmonton's Cultural Hall of Fame in June, at the City of Edmonton's 52nd Annual Salute to Excellence Awards. Barbour was one of eight artists and builders (including Jane Ash Poitras, Mel Hurtig, James Keane, and Mickey Macdonald) honoured by being added to the Cultural Hall of Fame. Rudy Wiebe (author of Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning The Arctic) and Monica Hughes are among the other writers already in the Cultural Hall of Fame. Barbour, author of Fragmenting Body etc and Lyric/Anti-lyric: Essays On Contemporary Poetry, was nominated for his work as a poet, teacher, editor, and board member at NeWest Press (and Longspoon Press). Photographs of all those in the Cultural Hall of Fame can be viewed in the Lee Pavilion of Edmonton's Citadel Theatre.