2009 KORE PRESS FIRST BOOK AWARD
Judge: Patricia Smith
A prize of $1,000 plus book publication by Kore Press will be given for a book-length poetry manuscript.
POSTMARK Deadline: July 31st, 2008
This competition is open to any female writer who has not published a full-length collection of poetry. Writers who have had chapbooks of less than 42 pages printed in editions of no more than 400 copies are eligible.
More info here.
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My sister sends me a phone-cam shot of Benedict XVI’s fly hooptie as it cruises down the boulevard of Yankee Stadium.
And so to mark this occasion, we take a break from the Palimpsest series and dedicate two poems, one by me and one by Jack Agüeros, to the Vicar of Christ and all the other interesting (read: ripe for poetic pickin’) language that comes with His Holiness. Thank you, White Jesus!
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Psalm for the Pope’s Five License Plate
Lord,
I have suggestions for the Pope’s
Five license plates
for his Five Mercedes Limousines.Big Guy.
Holy 1.
El Papa.
Pure-issimo.Lord,
I know that’s only four,
but I’m withdrawing
Humble 1,because it doesn’t seem to fit.
by Jack Agüeros
(from LORD, IS THIS A PSALM?, Hanging Loose Press 2002)
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FY 2008 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
The amount of the awards is pending Congressional approval of the NEA’s FY 2008 budget.
List of recipients here.
