YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR ANNUAL POETRY CONTESTS!

THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Including:
The Marsh Hawk Press Robert Creeley Memorial Award
Named for the late Poet and Member of the Marsh Hawk Press Advisory Board
&
The Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award
Named for the late Poet and Marsh Hawk Press Editor

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016

CONTEST JUDGE:

Mark Doty

Since the publication of his first volume of verse, Turtle, Swan, in 1987, Mark Doty has been recognized as one of the most accomplished poets in America. Hailed for his elegant, intelligent verse, Doty has often been compared to James Merrill, Walt Whitman and C.P. Cavafy. His syntactically complex and aesthetically profound free verse poems, odes to urban gay life, and quietly brutal elegies to his lover, Wally Roberts, have been hailed as some of the most original and arresting poetry written today. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Doty has also won a number of prestigious literary awards, including the Whiting Writer’s Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Series, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction, and the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (2008).  --from The Poetry Foundation

More information HERE.