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Akron Poetry Prize
The Akron Poetry Prize is an annual contest held by The University of Akron Press. The competition is open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives an honorarium of $1,000 and publication of his or her book in the Akron Series in Poetry. The final selection is made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2017 was Oliver de la Paz. Other manuscripts may also be considered for publication by Series Editor Mary Biddinger. Past editor's choice selections have included books by John Gallaher, David Dodd Lee, and Sarah Perrier. Winners Source. *1995: Susan Yuzna, ''Her Slender Dress'', Judge: Charles Wright *1996: Clare Rossini, ''Winter Morning with Crow'', Judge: Donald Justice *1997: Jeanne E. Clark, ''Ohio Blue Tips'', Judge: Alice Fulton *1998: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, ''Never Be the Horse'', Judge: Thomas Lux *1999: Dennis Hinrichsen, ''Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights'', Judge: Yusef Komunyakaa *2000: John Minczeski, ''Circle Routes' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Akron Press
The University of Akron Press is a nonprofit university press that is a part of The University of Akron. Founded in 1988, the Press is currently directed by Jon Miller and is a member of Association of University Presses. The University of Akron Press publishes scholarly, academic, regional and literary titles in several series, including: Ohio History and Culture; Akron Series in Poetry; Contemporary Poetics; The Center for the History of Psychology Series; The Bliss Institute Series; ThNCCAkronSeries in Dance. The Press also distributes the works of psychologist Jacob Robert Kantor (1888–1984) under the imprint Principia Press. Each year, the Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning manuscript is published in the Akron Series in Poetry. The current Series Editor of the Akron Series in Poetry is Mary Biddinger. See also * List of English-language book publishing companies * List of university presses Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Rutsala
Vern Rutsala (February 5, 1934 – April 2, 2014) was an American poet. Born in McCall, Idaho, he was educated at Reed College (B.A.) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.). He taught English and creative writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon for more than forty years, before retiring in 2004. He also taught for short periods at the University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, University of Redlands, and the University of Idaho, and served in the U.S. Army, 1956–58. He died in Oregon on April 2, 2014. Books *''The Window'' (1964) *''Small Songs: A Sequence, Stone Wall Press'' (1969) *''The Harmful State'' (1971) *''Laments'' (1975) *''The Journey Begins'' (1976) *''Paragraphs'' (1978) *''The New Life'' (1978) *''Walking Home from the Icehouse'' (1981) *''The Mystery of the Lost Shoes'' (1985) *''Backtracking'' (1985) *''Ruined Cities'' (1987) *''Selected Poems'' (1991) *''Little-known Sports'' (1994) *''The Moment's Equation'' (2004) *''A Handbook for W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Mills
Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Account, an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University and the author of ''Hawk Parable'', winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press 2019) and ''Tongue Lyre'', winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press 2013). She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Work ''Hawk Parable'' was included in The Millions must-read poetry April 2019. ''Tongue Lyre'' was fourth on the Believer's "Readers Favorite Works of Poetry in 2013" list. Her poetry publications include The New Yorker, The Believer (magazine), the Boston Review, and Blackbird (journal) Awards * 2017 Akron Poetry Prize * 2015 Copper Nickel Editor's Prize in Prose * 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award * 2009 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, ''Crab Orchard Review'' * 2008 ''Third Coast'' prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Joseph
Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently, ''Confessions of a Bare-Faced Woman'' (Red Hen Press, 2018). Biography Born in London, England, to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Bronx, New York. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University with an M.F.A. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. Many of SIUC's creative writing faculty and graduate students are involved with the workshop, and the student participants come from several states. In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review' as the magazine's poetry editor and has worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She is also the publisher and founder of No Chair Press. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Giménez Smith
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. ''Carmen'' has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the " Habanera" from act 1 and the " Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of ''opéra comique'' with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. José abandons his chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. Biography She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover (poet), Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal ''New American Writing''. She is the author of six books of fiction and ten books of poetry, including ''The Turning'' (2008) and ''Among the Names'' (2005), both from Apogee Press. Chernoff's novel ''American Heaven'' and her book of short stories, ''Some of Her Friends That Year'', were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. With Paul Hoover, she has translated ''The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin'' (Omnidawn Press, 2008) which won the 2009 PEN Translation Prize. As of 2013, she lives in Mill Valley, California. Works Novels ''A Boy in Winter''(Crown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kirby (poet)
David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Biography Early life Kirby was raised in "the rural south" by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer and a "farm-girl" mother turned elementary school teacher who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep on their family's 10-acre property in Louisiana. As a child, Kirby took pleasure in wandering the great outdoors; conversing with Cajun neighbors, including "some of the oddest, sweetest people eever met"; and listening to fanciful stories told by his mother "about voodoo spells and people who lived in trees." He began writing for enjoyment at the age of 5 while suffering from polio. Also as a preteen, Kirby occasionally helped bartend for literary events hosted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Wier
Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) (born 1949) is an American poet and the author of ''Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina'' (Wave Books, 2022). Other titles include ''In the Still of the Night'' (Wave Books, 2017), ''You Good Thing'' (Wave Books, 2014), ''Reverse Rapture'' (Verse Press, 2005), ''Hat on a Pond'' (Verse Press, 2002) and ''Voyages in English'' (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council have generously supported her work. Limited editions include ''(X in Fix)''(2003) from ''Rain Taxi''’s brainstorm series), ''Thru'' (2019) and ''Two Poems'' (2021) from Scram, and forthcoming in 2022, ''Nine Poems'' from Incessant Pipe. With James Tate, she rescued ''The Lost Epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke'', published by Waiting for Godot Books. Poems can be found in ''Granta'', ''Volt'', ''Conduit'',, ''Incessa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Sajé
Natasha Sajé (born June 6, 1955, in Munich, Germany) is an American poet. Life She grew up in New York City, and New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches at Westminster College. and Vermont College. Her work appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''New Republic'', ''Parnassus'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''The Writers Chronicle''. Awards * 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV * 2015 15 Bytes Award, ''Vivarium'' * 2008 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award * 2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year, ''Bend'' * 1993 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ..., ''Red Under the Skin'' * Towson State Prize in Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Harmon (poet)
: ''For the playwright born 1983, see'' Joshua Harmon (playwright). Joshua Harmon (born 1971) is an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He has authored six books, including ''The Soft Path'' (poems, 2019), ''The Annotated Mixtape'' (nonfiction, 2014), ''History of Cold Seasons'' (short stories, 2014), ''Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie'' (poems, 2011), ''Scape'' (poems, 2009), and ''Quinnehtukqut'' (novel, 2007). Life and work Harmon was born and raised in Massachusetts. He was educated at Marlboro College and at Cornell University, where he earned an MFA in fiction. ''Quinnehtukqut'', excerpts of which were awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose, was short-listed for the 2008 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Of this novel, Open Letters Monthly wrote that "''Quinnehtukqut'' is the most impressive debut I can remember," while The Village Voice wrote that "Harmon...concerns himself with formal innovation at the expense of a coherent n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Espada
Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet, and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems. Life and career Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was introduced to political activism at an early age by his father, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement. Espada received a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a J.D. from Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts). For many years, he worked as a tenant lawyer and a supervisor of a legal services program. In 1982, Espada published his first book of political poems, ''The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero'', featuring photography by his father. This was followed by ''Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction'' (1987) and ''Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands''. In 2001, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.In 2018, Espada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Early life Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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