The Joy of Poetry
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Jericho Brown's The Tradition Wins Pulitzer Prize
"The Tradition questions why and how we’ve become accustomed to terror: in the bedroom, the classroom, the workplace, and the movie theater. From mass shootings to rape to the murder of unarmed people by police, Jericho Brown interrupts complacency by locating each emergency in the garden of the body, where living things grow and wither—or survive."
viaCOPPER CANYON PRESS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gillian Parrish on Paul Celan's "In the Daytime"
"This poem also expands my view of poem-making as a practice of attention to include poem as communion, as something more like prayer. Clearly, Celan’s poem is a poem of attention. Better yet, it is a poem that attends without wanting, that rests in a ready waiting-that-is-not-waiting. For only in such an open space can wildness arrive and minds meet." |
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North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
$12,500 in cash prizes. Deadline: June 30
Sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by BookBaby and Carolyn Howard-Johnson. Categories include Poetry, Mainstream/Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction & Memoir, Children's Picture Book, and Graphic Novel & Memoir. One grand prize of $5,000 and the winner in each category will receive $1,000, plus additional benefits. Gift for everyone who enters. Final judges: Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche. Entry fee: $65. Winning Writers is one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest). Entries accepted by mail and via Submittable. See guidelines and past winners. |
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