Of Looking At A Blackbird: February 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009

VCCA post

I've been here for four days and I haven't posted -- but I've been having a great time and getting a lot done. Right now, I'm sitting around, post dinner, post ping pong, with Eduardo Corral and Deborah Ager.

I'm going to post some photos:

Melissa Stein has been chosen by judge Mark Doty as the winner of the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for her manuscript Rough Honey. Her book will be published in fall 2010 by Copper Canyon Press.

Lisa Gluskin's poetry manuscript Tulips, Water, Ash, selected by Jean Valentine for the Morse Poetry Prize and published by Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England, is now available from your local bookstore and Amazon. Lisa has poems in Blackbird, Third Coast, and failbetter.

Idris Anderson was one of 10 finalists for the Emily Dickinson Prize and winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award (judge: Harold Bloom); Mrs. Ramsay's Knee was published Utah State University Press and is now available.

Zack Rogow has joined the faculty of the new low-residency MFA in Writing Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Zack was a co-winner of the 2007 Tanka Splendor award. Zack's new book of poems, The Number before Infinity, was published by Scarlet Tanager Books.

Robert Thomas's Baker's Daughter was a finalist for the Field Prize. One of Robert's Baker's Daughter poems appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Southern Reviewand another, a contest finalist, is forthcoming in Gulf Coast.

Diane K. Martin's Conjugated Visits will be published by Dream Horse Press in spring/summer 2010. Her poem "Hue and Cry" won the Erskine J. Poetry prize from Smartish Pace

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