Winning Writers has announced the winners of its annual War Poetry Contest: First Place – Kyle McDonald Second Place – Julian Damanas Third Place – Aliene Pylant Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass is the winner of the 2007 National Book Award. Robert Lee Brewer wins the Millennial Poetry School Award for explaining the school’s…
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Poetry Magazine has published the winners of its annual prizes: The winner of The Levinson Prize is Mary Kinzie. Kinzie’s poems were published in the November 2006 and September 2007 issues of Poetry Magazine. She won $500. Conor O’Callaghan won The Bess Hokin Prize and $500 for poems published in May and July/August 2007. In…
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I recently received a comment from a correspondent of Publisher’s Weekly. That’s quite an honor. And to what do I owe this astonishing brush stroke of humility? A post I made a few weeks ago announcing that my friend Gary Ciocco was the proud winner of the 2007 Bordighera Poetry Prize. I just want to…
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