Announcing the winners of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Awards
December 22, 2011
Alice James Books is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Awards: Viral by Suzanne Parker of New York, NY, Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos of New York, NY and We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer of Cambridge, MA. Each will receive $2,000 and will become members of the Alice James Books Poetry Cooperative Board. Their books will be published in September 2013, April 2013, and May 2013, respectively.
Finalists for the award were: Pomegranate Eater by Amaranth Borsuk, Indescribable Cardinals by Jordan Davis, Fugue for Other Hands by Joseph Fasano, The Body as One by Ezra Dan Feldman, Lost Property Unit by Rachel J. Galvin, Phase Shift by Alan Gilbert, Rough Comfort by Janlori Goldman, From this Wild & Perpendicular Earth by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Big Thinker by Jean-Paul Pecqueur, On the Desire to Levitate by Alison Powell, Killer by Doug Sanders, Church of Needles by Sarah Sousa, The Inventor’s Last Breath by J. Hope Stein, Jacket of a Ghost by Michael Paul Thomas, Five Satans by Jeffrey Thomson, Landscape with a Burning City by Michael Tyrell, and This Skeleton Coast by R.A. Villanueva. The Alice James Books Cooperative Board commends these poets for their fine work.
Thank you so much for submitting your manuscript to the competition and for your interest in and support of Alice James Books. Best of luck with your writing!
Announcing the winner of the 2011 Beatrice Hawley Award
April 19, 2011
We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award is Jane Springer of Clinton, New York for her book, Murder Ballad. She will receive $2,000, and her book will be published in May 2012. The Cooperative Board has chosen one additional book for publication: Black Crow Dress by Roxane Beth Johnson of San Francisco, California. Her book will be published in September 2012, and she will receive $1,000.
Jane Springer’s first book, Dear Blackbird (University of Utah Press, 2007), won the Agha Shaid Ali Prize . Her other awards include an AWP Intro Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, an NEA grant, and a Whiting Award. She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2008 and now teaches poetry at Hamilton College, in upstate, New York, where she lives with her husband, John Powell, their son Morrison, and their two dogs, Walter Woofus and Georgia. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such places as Fugue,The Oxford American, and The Southern Review.
Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry, Jubilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Philip Levine was the judge. She has won an AWP Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, 2007. She has received scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, San Francisco Arts Commission and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from: The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Image, Callaloo, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, ZYZZYVA, The Bitter Oleander, Sentence, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.
Finalists for the award were: Distant Satellite by Kate Angus,The Real Cause for Your Absence by Curtis Bauer, Before the Warby Adam Day, The Arbitrarium by Frank Giampetro, Pink Collar Brides by Emilie Lindemann, Gloss by Rebecca Lindenberg,Oppenheimer’s Dog by Radha Marcum, The Boundary Waters by Jacob Shores-Arguello, Glaciology by Jeffrey Skinner, Five Satans by Jeffrey Thomson, Skeleton Coast by R.A. Villanueva, and Poetry for Planes by Mark Yakich.
Semifinalists for the award were: Darktown Follies by Amaud Jamaul Johnson, In a World Made of Such Weather as This by Sandy Longhorn, Daylily Called it a Dangerous Moment: Agitations & Meditations by Alessandra Lynch, Revoke by Joy Manesiotis, Golgotha by Orlando Ricardo Menes, godflesh by Vikas K. Menon, Unmarked Border by Sara Michas-Martin, Hider Roser by Ben Mirov, Twitterf*ck by Elizabeth Astrid Powell, The Forage House by Tess Taylor, and Ultramegaprarieland by Elisabeth Workman. The Alice James Books Cooperative Board commends these poets for their fine work.
Thank you to all who submitted manuscripts to the competition, for your interest in and support of Alice James Books. Best of luck with your writing!
Announcing the winner of the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize
Kundiman and Alice James Books are delighted to announce the winner of the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize: Matthew Olzmann.
We want to congratulate Matthew, a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Literary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist, on his prize-winning collection.
In addition, we would like to congratulate the following finalists for their riveting manuscripts: Lux Aeterna by J. Mae Barizo, A Shelter of Leaves by April Naoko Heck, Fablesque by Anna Maria Hong, Artless Flower by Miho Nonaka, Hello::Ghost by Soham Patel, Bells by Cheryl Quimba, Trembling on the Brink of a Mesquite Tree by Brynn Saito, Theatre by Mei Underhill, and HypnoPompia by Yim Tan Wong.
The Kundiman Poetry Prize is made possible through the support of Fordham University and the University of Maine at Farmington.
Shara’s 2011-12 Readings
updated June 19, 2011
Fall 2011
· Monmouth University, Monmouth, NJ—September 15, 2011
· Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA—September 20, 2011
· SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY—September 22, 2011
· Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA—October 12, 2011
· Bucknell University Lifelong Learning Center, Lewisburg, PA—October 25, 2011
· Allegheny College, Meadville, PA—October 6, 2011 or October 27, 2011 (one of these two dates)
· Xavier University & the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA—November 9-11, 2011 (tentative date)
· Miami Book Fair International, Miami, FL—November 19, 2011 (tentative date)
· Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA (date not yet set)
Spring 2012
· Paterson Poetry Center, Paterson, NJ—February 4, 2012
· University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Aetna Writer in Residence—February 15-17, 2012
· AWP, Chicago, IL—March 1-4, 2012 (may be on a panel; attending either way)
· River Styx at Duff’s, St. Louis, MO—March 19, 2012
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