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Michael Palmer

2007-2008
 POL Prize
 Judge

 

Michael Palmer is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Company of Moths (New Directions, 2005), which was shortlisted for the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize; Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988 (2001); The Promises of Glass (2000); The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (1998); At Passages (1996); Sun (1988); First Figure (1984); Notes for Echo Lake (1981); Without Music (1977); The Circular Gates (1974); and Blake's Newton (1972). He is also the author of a prose work, The Danish Notebook (Avec Books, 1999).

Palmer's honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. In 1999, he was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He lives in San Francisco.

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POL Prize Application & Guidelines
Deadline November 15th, 2007


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 judgein the POL series at Fordham-Lincoln Center.

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

 

POETS OUT LOUD

IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

THE WINNER OF THE 2006-2007 POL PRIZE

   

Darcie Dennigan

Selected by 
Alice Fulton

 

Darcie Dennigan was born and raised in Rhode Island and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Atlantic Monthly, Black Warrior Review, Court Green, Forklift Ohio, H_NGM_N, Indiana Review, Tin House, jubilat, and Swink, and were anthologized in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. In 2007, she received the Discovery/The Nation prize.


Bullet

It was like a heavy seed, so I thought, Plant it.

No soil so I swallowed it.

 

How to make it not the thrown stone, not the grape 
    of wrath.

Make it not the animal’s eye gleaming at the attack.

 

Think tuft of cotton not glint of cobalt. 

A bluebell in my woods near moss.

 

There will be a loud report.

No. There will be snow falling on the shrub.

 

It was a heart and I its house and I opened 
    my door and it went out.

 

Small button on a blouse, then buckle of a belt.

But there was its pulse.

 

The tip of a jackhammer, tongue of an alarm.

I sang along.

 

I looked right in the mother’s gleaming eye.

It’s innocent, I said. Innocent.

 

Small ball.

No. I swear when my fingers unfurled I held— 
    a silver jonquil.

 

Maybe I mothered when I should have fathered.

Maybe a seed not for the start but for the end.

 

There was a small ball in the boy’s fist. And a voice
    in his ear, Throw it.

 

 (originally published in Atlantic Monthly)




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