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Eastern Washington University Press is pleased to announce that the 2009 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry has been awarded to Arianne Zwartjes, for her collection The Surfacing of Excess. Ms. Zwartjes is the author of the chapbook Stitched (A Surface Opens), from Diagram/New Michigan Press, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals, among them the Blue Fifth Review, Caketrain, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Fireweed, Front Porch, The Pinch, and Word for/Word, as well as in Catch Our Breath: Writing from the Heart of AIDS. Her honors include the Margaret Sterling Memorial Award and the University of Arizona Poetry Prize. A native of Maine, she currently lives in Tucson. Please join us in extending our warm congratulations to Ms. Zwartjes. |
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| Previous Winners |
2008 |
Boys Whistling like Canaries, by Jorn Ake |
2007 |
This Dirty Little Heart, by B.T. Shaw |
2006 |
Revolt of the Crash-test Dummies, by Jim Daniels |
2005 |
The Museum of Natural History, by Julie Gamberg |
2004 |
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Cartographer's Melancholy, by David Axelrod |
2003 |
My Work Among the Faithful, by Lisa Beskin |
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Queen of No Ordinary Realms, by Naveed Alam |
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Judging is anonymous. Previous judges include:
Michael Heffernan
Robert Wrigley
Primus St. John
Dara Wier
Dorianne Laux
Yusef Komunyakaa
Beckian Fritz Goldberg |
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| For its 15th year, the Blue Lynx Prize is returning to Lynx House Press.
The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a U.S. author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the U.S. and U.S. citizens living abroad. Poems included may not have appeared in full-length, single-author collections. Acknowledgments pages and author names may be included, but will be removed prior to final judging.
Entries must be at least 48 pages in length and must be accompanied by a $25 reading fee and an SASE (for notification only); checks to be made payable to Lynx House Press.
Send to: Lynx House Press, P.O. Box 940, Spokane, WA 99210. Postmark deadline: May 15, 2010.
For questions regarding the contest, please contact Chris Howell via e-mail. |
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