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Since 1999, Poets Out Loud has sponsored an annual competition for a full-length poetry manuscript, published each spring by Fordham University Press. The POL Prize awards $1000, publication by Fordham University Press, and a reading by the winning poet and judge in the POL series at Fordham-Lincoln Center.    


2010 - 2011 Poets Out Loud Prize Winners

Poets Out Loud Prize
selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge:

The Hello Delay
by Julie Choffel

Editor's Prize
selected by Elisabeth Frost:

Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red]
by Michelle Naka Pierce


2010-2011 Prize Finalists:

Desiree Alvarez’s The Inntermost Animal
Debbie Benson’s Rain from the Belly of a Cup
Laurie Blauner’s In the Room with All Kinds
Yu-Han Chao’s Body Shots
J.L. Conrad’s Disaster Fruit
T. Zachary Cotler’s Et in Terra Pax
Shira Dentz’s how do i net thee
Rae Gouirand’s Open Winter
Carolyn Guinzio’s &: Poems
Christopher Jenke’s psalterium
Jean Kane’s Make Me
Lizbeth Kelley’s Partial Waking
Jason Labbe’s Life-Size Atlas
Rebecca Lehmann’s House on Fire
Rebecca Lindenberg’s gloss
Nina Lindsay’s Morning Under Construction
Chloe Lopez’s Quelled Communiques
Laura McKee’s Drusy
Michals Nils’s Chantepleure
Martie Palar’s Black Frost
Emily Rosko’s Prop Rockery
Brenda Sieczkowski’s Souvenir Palace
Cori Winrock’s Anti-Portrait at Flashpoint
Heather Winterer’s The Two Standards and Art’s Garage
Angela Veronica Wong’s i am not prettier than anyone else here and All the Little Red Girls

Finalist were selected by our initial readers:
Amy Catanzano, Leslie Chang, Darcie Dennigan, Heather Dubrow, Elisabeth Frost,
Sarah Gambito, Janet Kaplan, Joseph Legaspi, and Bino Realuyo

   

2011 - 2012 Poets Out Loud Prize 

Open to poets with or without
previous book-length publication

TWO volumes will be published by 
Fordham University Press


1) POL Prize winner, selected by Prize Judge,
will receive $1,000

2) Editor's Prize winner will be selected
by POL Prize Series Editor and POL Prize Judge

Both authors will receive a book launch
in the Poets Out Loud Reading Series

Deadline: October 15, 2011

2011-2012 Prize Judge: Claudia Rankine

Series Editor: Elisabeth Frost



Submissions will be accepted via our
ONLINE SUBMISSIONS MANAGER
or by MAIL 


Click here to submit online

Click here to view full guidelines

Click here to download full guidelines
   




2010 - 2011 Poets Out Loud Prize 

Open to poets with or without previous book-length publication

TWO volumes will be published by 
Fordham University Press

Prize winner will receive $1,000

Second volume will be chosen by Prize judge
in consultation with POL Prize series editor

Both authors will receive reading / book launch
in the Poets Out Loud Reading Series

Deadline: November 15, 2010

2010-2011 Prize Judge: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge


 

This year, submissions will be accepted by 
MAIL or via our ONLINE SUBMISSIONS MANAGER

Click here to download full guidelines

Click here to submit online




   

Books can be ordered through the FordhamFordham University Press website
www.fordhampress.com


Past Winners:

2010
Julie Choffel:
The Hello Delay
selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Michelle Naka Pierce:
Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red]
selected by Elisabeth Frost

2008
Leslie C. Chang:
Things That No Longer Delight Me
selectedby Cornelius Eady

2007
Amy Catanzano:
Multiversal
selected by Michael Palmer

2006
Darcie Dennigan:
Corinna A-Maying theApocalypse
selected by Alice Fulton

2005
Karin Gottshall:
Crocus
selected by Alberto Ríos

2004
Jean Gallagher:
This Minute
selected by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

2003
Lee Robinson: 
Hearsay
selected by Robert Wrigley

2002
Janet Kaplan: 
The Glazier's Country
selected by Yvette Christianse

2001
Robert Thomas: 
Door to Door
selected by Yusef Komunyakaa

2000
Julie Sheehan:
Thaw
selected by Marie Ponsot

1999
Jennifer Clarvoe:
Invisible Tender

selected by J. D. McClatchy

   

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