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POL Prize
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 $2000, publication by Fordham University Press, and a reading by the winning poet and judge in the POL series at Fordham-Lincoln Center.


 
2008-2009 
POL Prize Judge

Cornelius
Eady

Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry: Kartunes (Warthog Press, 1980); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991); You Don’t Miss Your Water (Henry Holt and Co., 1995); The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997); and Brutal Imagination (Putnam, 2001). His work appears in numerous journals and the anthologies, including Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep, In Search of Color Everywhere and The Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry 1750-2000 (ed. Michael S. Harper). With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is co-founder of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African American poets.  


POETS OUT LOUD
IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
THE WINNER OF THE 
2007-2008 POL PRIZE

 



Amy Catanzano

Selected by 
Michael Palmer

 

Amy Catanzano's first book, iEpiphany, was published by Anne Waldman's Erudite Fangs imprint. Amy's poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines such as Aufgabe, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, and Fence. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She works and teaches in the Writing and Poetics Department of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.


CLICK HERE for 2008-2009
POL Prize Application & Guidelines
Deadline October 15th, 2008
Books can be ordered through the Fordham Fordham University Press website: www.fordhampress.com


Past Winners:


1999
Jennifer Clarvoe:
Invisible Tender
selected by J. D. McClatchy

2000
Julie Sheehan:
Thaw
selected by Marie Ponsot

2001
Robert Thomas: 
Door to Door
selected by Yusef Komunyakaa

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

2003
Lee Robinson: 
Hearsay
selected by Robert Wrigley

2004
Jean Gallagher:
This Minute
selected by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

2005
Karin Gottshall:
Crocus
selected by Alberto Ríos

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

2007
Amy Catanzano:
Multiversal
selected by Michael Palmer

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