Donald Justice Poetry Prize
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The Donald Justice Poetry Prize (appears as Donald Justice Prize on book covers) is a nationally-known prize sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards
by the West Chester University Poetry Center. Given annually since 2006 to one American
poet
for an unpublished book-length manuscript of formal poetry
, the award includes $1000 and an opportunity for publication. Winners are presented with the award at the West Chester University Poetry Conference
. The prize is named after former poet Donald Justice
.
, and A. E. Stallings
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The competition is open to all American poets regardless of whether they have published in the past.
Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards
The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards are three awards administered by the West Chester University Poetry Center and are given annually during the West Chester University Poetry Conference "to recognize the important role of arts and letters in American life." The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards were...
by the West Chester University Poetry Center. Given annually since 2006 to one American
United States
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poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
for an unpublished book-length manuscript of formal poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, the award includes $1000 and an opportunity for publication. Winners are presented with the award at the West Chester University Poetry Conference
West Chester University Poetry Conference
West Chester University Poetry Conference is an international poetry conference that has been held annually since 1995 at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, United States. It hosts various panel discussions and poetry craft workshops, which focus primarily on formal poetry, narrative poetry,...
. The prize is named after former poet Donald Justice
Donald Justice
Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr has written, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his...
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Judging
Every two years, two unpublished manuscripts are selected for the award, one of which is given out each year. The winning manuscripts are chosen by a member of the WCU Poetry Conference faculty, which in the past has been done by R. S. Gwynn, David MasonDavid Mason (writer)
David Mason is an American writer and the Poet Laureate of Colorado.-Life:David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. He studied briefly at the Colorado College, but left after one year to work as a fisherman in Alaska. He returned to the college to earn his B.A. in 1978...
, and A. E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow-Background:Stallings was raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia and University of Oxford. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved...
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The competition is open to all American poets regardless of whether they have published in the past.
Past Winners
The following are the winners of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize:- 20062006 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon...
— Kate Light, Gravity's Dream: New Poems and Sonnets - 20072007 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding...
— Kim Bridgford, In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records - 20082008 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* June — the release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys *...
— John Poch, Two Men Fighting with a Knife - 20092009 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nazim Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet...
— Julie KaneJulie KaneJulie Kane is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011-2013 term. Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native...
, Jazz Funeral - 20102010 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 19 - For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, early...
— Ned BalboNed BalboNed Balbo is an award-winning poet and essayist. He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield, and her daughter Catherine.-Life:...
, Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems - 20112011 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights...
— Amit MajmudarAmit Majmudar-Life:He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in Nuclear Medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya....
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