Pushcart Nomination
Just found out “Mothers Eating Other Mothers’ Young” was nominated by the editors at Center for a Pushcart Prize. Yay.
Tag: Accolades
Finalist for 2008 Keystone Chapbook Prize
Just a note to say I was a Finalist again for the Keystone Chapbook Prize, this time for a chapbook called Keystone Effect which steals some poems from The Erotic Postulate and buddies them with some old but recently revised Pennsylvania-centric love poems. It’s fun to see all these poems together again under the Keystone Effect title. They originally Read More …
Specular Reflection Finalist for the 2008 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest
More good news for Specular Reflection: it was one of 24 finalists for the 2008 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest. You can see the announcement of the winner and the other finalists HERE.
Finalist for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize
Now that the winner has been announced I think it’s safe to reveal I was one of 29 finalists for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. This is the first contest placement for my second full-length manuscript, Skin Shift, which has increased my confidence in this project. I’ve been pondering Read More …
Always a Bridesmaid…
Another surprise in the mail today: found out I was a semi-finalist for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award. This would be my second time as a semi-finalist, though the letter doesn’t specify for which manuscript I submitted, so it may have been the Erotic Postulate again or Skin Shift for the first time. It remains a mystery, Read More …
Specular Reflection a Semi-finalist
Just a quick note that a new project I’ve been working on, Specular Reflection, inspired by my travels to Jamaica last year, was named a Semi-finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Not bad for its first time out.
Winner of the Beauty/Truth Press Chapbook Competition
Just found out my sequence Narcissus Resists won the 2007 Beauty/Truth Press Chapbook Competition. They are estimating the print date will be December 1st, and you can check in on their publication schedule here:BeautyTruthPoetryPublications
Frank O’Hara Award Runner-up
Just a note to say my long poem Platos de Sal was a runner-up in the Frank O’Hara Award Chapbook Competition this year. Last year I came in Fourth forPear Slip and the year before I was a Semifinalist for Narcissus Resists. But next year the contest will be going away (only for a year, though) as Read More …
Also Notable
Narcissus Resists has been highlighted as an “Also Notable” manuscript for “prowess in composition and daring originality” in Caketrain’s 2006 Chapbook Contest. Nice to be in the top 5.