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Topic: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize


  
  The Academy of American Poets
The Marshall prize is an annual award of $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the United States during the previous year.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize was established by the New Hope Foundation in 1975 and is now administered by the Academy of American Poets in conjunction with The Nation.
Lenore Marshall published three novels, three books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and selections from her notebooks.
www.poets.org /page.php/prmID/329   (933 words)

  
 Poetry Magazine Current Contests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A prize of $1,000 plus publication in Literal Latté, a journal of prose, poetry, and art, is awarded each year for an unpublished poem.
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Mid-List Press is awarded each year for a book-length story collection or novella and a collection of essays or a book-length work of creative nonfiction.
Three prizes of $1,000 and publication in Winter issue given for a short story, a poem, and a piece of creative nonfiction are awarded twice annually, spring and fall.
www.poetrymagazine.com /contests_august.htm   (1465 words)

  
 Poetry Magazine, Contests,  May 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Gorsky Press is given annually for a novella or a collection of poems or short stories by a writer who "expresses his or her talent in a concise slice of work." Submit a manuscript of 60 to 80 pages with a $15 entry fee by July 15.
A prize of $100,000 is given annually to honor a writer who is a native of Latin America or the Caribbean and writes in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or English, or a native of Spain or Portugal who writes in Spanish or Portuguese.
A prize of $2,500 and either an expenses paid trip to New York City to meet with editors and agents or a trip to the 2005 Maui Writers Conference is given annually for an original, unpublished manuscript.
www.poetrymagazine.com /contests_may04_copy(1).htm   (5342 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com Awards
Lenore Marshall (1897-1971) was a poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist.
The Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine.
The prize is endowed by the New Hope Foundation, an advocate for world peace, literature, and the arts.
www.books.com /awards/marshall_about.asp?z=y   (120 words)

  
 David Ferry Wins Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Ferry's other awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize was first awarded in 1975 and has been given annually ever since.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is endowed by a gift to the Academy from the New Hope Foundation, which for more than forty years worked to support literature, the arts, and world peace.
www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/Releases/2000/101300.html   (397 words)

  
 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The previous winners of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize are Cid Corman, Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Allen Tate, Hayden Carruth, Sterling A. Brown, John Logan, George Starbuck, Josephine Miles, John Ashbery, Howard Moss, Donald Hall, Josephine Jacobsen, Thomas McGrath, Michael Ryan, John Haines, Adrienne Rich, Thom Gunn, and W. Merwin.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize was established in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation in memory of Lenore Marshall (1897-1971), a poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist.
Lenore Marshall was the author of three novels, three books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and selections from her notebooks.
bookbuzz.com /marshall.htm   (682 words)

  
 Poetry Series
The lingering life of her poetry is a resort I seek when the demands of academia threaten to ossify the language in which I find myself, when discourse becomes a form of captivity.
Sometimes, Heather's poetry is simultaneously the face of Lot's wife and the consequent salt, the pause in a string quartet and the departed, breathless cellist, expired, become spirit, but feeling for the matter that had been part of him.
Fossil poetry, but never fossilized: for this is poetic language that yanks the untouched Irish into the present, modernizes the myths, and, as her admirers have long pointed out, creates a voice for women in Irish that has been unique and has inspired other Irish women poets to search for a voice as well.
www.dactyl.org /poetry/poetry.html   (3109 words)

  
 Vanderbilt News:Poetry book focusing on religion and values wins prestigious award
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is a $10,000 award for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize was established in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation in memory of Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, essayist and political activist.
The prize is endowed by a gift to the academy from the New Hope Foundation, which for more than 40 years worked to support world peace, literature and the arts.
www.vanderbilt.edu /News/news/oct98/nr12.html   (614 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
In 1994, the Academy was selected by the New Hope Foundation to administer the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in conjunction with The Nation magazine.
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize honors the memory of Lenore Marshall (1897-1971), a poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist.
She was the author of three novels, three books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and selections from her notebooks.
www.poets.org /page.php/prmID/108   (346 words)

  
 David Ferry Wins 2000 Bobbitt Prize
The biennial Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, a privately funded poetry prize given on behalf of the nation, recognizes the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years.
The previous Bobbitt Prize recipients are James Merrill (1990), for The Inner Room; Louise Glück and Mark Strand (1992), for Ararat and The Continuous Life, respectively; A.R. Ammons (1994), for Garbage; Kenneth Koch (1996), for One Train; and Frank Bidart (1998), for Desire.
The winner of the 2000 Bobbitt Prize was chosen by a jury appointed by a selection committee composed of the Librarian of Congress, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a publisher named by the Academy of American Poets and a literary critic nominated by the Bobbitt family.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0101/poetry_prize.html   (413 words)

  
 NTW Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Philip Levine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently The Mercy (1998).
His other poetry collections include The Simple Truth (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; What Work Is (1991), which won the National Book Award; 7 Years From Somewhere (1979), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Names of the Lost (1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize for Poetry, and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships.
main.wgbh.org /wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Poetry421.HTML   (225 words)

  
 Poets & Writers - Grants & Awards 1997 January/February
The prize, given annually for an outstanding book of poems published in the United States during the previous year, is administered by the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine.
The prize is given to a U.S. poet who has published at least one book within the last five years, has made important contributions as a teacher, and is committed to furthering the understanding of poetry.
The prize, awarded annually to a U.S. woman for a work of fiction, is sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester.
www.pw.org /mag/ga9701.htm   (5178 words)

  
 Lenore Marshall Prize for 1999
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is co-administered by the Academy of American Poets and The Nation.
Poetry that merely affirms the beliefs of a B particular denomination, untroubled by the complexities of the world and the ever-present contradictions of an individual life, is thin gruel.
It is a desire to recover more formal values in poetry, the resurgence of narrative, the dabbling in, if not the complete return to, established forms, meters and genres.
www3.baylor.edu /~Jesse_Airaudi/marshall.htm   (1017 words)

  
 BU | University Professors Program | Programs | Poetry Reading Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She is also the author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and has edited and translated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (1990) with Mariko Aratani.
Howe was the recipient of the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems.
She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005.
www.bu.edu /uni/programs/poetry.html   (860 words)

  
 Poetry at the University of California Press
The New California Poetry series presents works that help define the emerging generation of poets—books consistent with California's commitment to the Black Mountain tradition and reflective of California literary traditions—cosmopolitan, innovative.
Fanny Howe's Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the Most Outstanding Book of Poetry Published in 2000, Academy of American Poets; and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the Commonwealth of California, and was chosen by the Village Voice Literary Supplement as one of their 25 favorite books of 2000.
Each modestly sized book consists of a selection of poetry and prose, supplemented by commentaries and documents, and edited and introduced by a poet or scholar with a fresh and radical approach to the subject.
www.ucpress.edu /books/poetry.html   (678 words)

  
 in brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The $10,000 prize, presented by the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine, will be awarded this month to one of the five finalists.
Marshall was the author of three books of poetry, three novels, a collection of short stories and selections from her notebooks.
The largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry, the Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster appreciation of contemporary poetry.
www.lsu.edu /lsutoday/981009/inbrief.html   (333 words)

  
 Past Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The presentation will be made during a special Bicentennial conference on "Poetry in America: A Library of Congress Bicentennial Celebration." The conference will be held April 3-4, 2000, at the Library of Congress, and will include readings by the Special Consultants and the Poet Laureate.
Rita Dove, who was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1993-95, is on the faculty of the University of Virginia.
Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.loc.gov /poetry/laureate-past.html   (1324 words)

  
 Poet Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In recognition of his literary achievement, Aiken held the Chair of Poetry of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952 and was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1958.
His is a religious and culturally-obsessed poetry, his religion being that of a western mystic deeply influenced by his early Zen Buddhist studies and his studies of modern science (primarily physics) and technology.
Her poetry is filled with descriptions of her travels and the scenery which surrounded her, as with the Florida poems in her first book of verse, North and South, published in 1946.
www.ncguru.org /poems/poetbio_a-d.htm   (9972 words)

  
 WCU Poetry Conference > 2003 Poetry Workshops & Faculty
She is the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Wilbur Award, the Nemerov Prize, three of the yearly awards given by the Poetry Society of America, and the “Tree at My Window” Award from the Robert Frost Foundation.
Her honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters and the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is the recipient of a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, a Pushcart Prize (2001), and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.wcupa.edu /_academics/sch_cas/poetry/conference/workshopsandfaculty.html   (1624 words)

  
 Experience Literature - Poetry
He began writing poetry and fiction at age 12 and published his first poem at age 16.
He has published 14 volumes of poetry, including The Happy Man, (1986), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Pulitzer prize nomination.
His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publishers Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /introduction_literature/poetry/hall.htm   (330 words)

  
 B.U. Bridge: Boston University community's weekly newspaper
The Lenore Marshall Prize, administered by the Academy of American Poets and The Nation, is among the most prestigious a poet can win.
Robert Pinsky, CAS professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, was awarded the prize in 1997 for his own new and selected volume, The Figured Wheel.
It also received the Bingham Poetry Prize from the Boston Book Review and was a finalist for the L. Winship/PEN New England Award and the first annual New Yorker Book Award for poetry.
www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/2000/11-03/ferry.html   (553 words)

  
 David Ferry Wins Library of Congress Poetry Prize
awards the biennial $10,000 prize "on behalf of the nation" for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years.
The prize is the second national poetry award that Ferry has garnered this year.
The prize is donated by the family of the late Mrs.
www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/Releases/2000/121200.html   (386 words)

  
 Two University Press books nominated for major awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Marshall prize was established in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation in memory of poet, novelist, essayist and political activist Lenore Marshall.
Along with publishing novels, books of poetry, a collection of short stories and selections from her notebooks, Marshall, in 1956, was one of the founders of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and successfully lobbied for a partial nuclear test ban treaty in 1963.
Ostriker is the author of seven other volumes of poetry, including "The Imaginary Lover," which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America.
www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/29/101096/17.html   (601 words)

  
 Mark Jarman, Blackbird
Mark Jarman, a native of Kentucky, is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
A graduate of the University of California-Santa Cruz and the University of Iowa, he is the author of seven books of poetry: North Sea (1978), The Rote Walker (1981), Far and Away (1985), The Black Riviera (1990), Iris (1992), Questions for Ecclesiastes (1997), and Unholy Sonnets (2000).
Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine.
www.blackbird.vcu.edu /v1n1/poetry/jarman_m/jarman_m.htm   (169 words)

  
 Poetry Daily Feature: Donald Revell - Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems
Poet, translator and critic Donald Revell is the author of eight previous collections of poetry – most recently My Mojave, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – as well as two translations and a collection of essays.
Two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry, Revell has been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award, the Shestack Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations.
He writes a spiritual poetry that feels utterly truthful, giving us a phenomenology of spirit remarkably free of institutions and mostly free of habit.
www.cstone.net /~poems/pennyrev.htm   (263 words)

  
 Poets & Writers - Grants & Awards November/December 1999
The prize is given annually to a woman poet for a first collection of poetry.
The prize is given annually by the Chicago Tribune to recognize an outstanding work of fiction that "conjures the values and experiences of the Midwest." Books published between August 1 and July 31 of the prize year are eligible.
The annual prizes are given to first-time or published authors whose work remains unrecognized relative to the quality and ambition of their writing.
www.pw.org /mag/ga0001.htm   (3557 words)

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