We are happy to announce that Elly Bookman has been chosen as the winner of the 2010 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for her poem “Another Thing I’d Rather Not Know About Myself.” The poem will appear on the feature page (back cover) of the September/October 2010 issue.

Elly Bookman is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and a 2009 graduate of Colby College in Maine.  She is entering her first year in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 

Marie Howe, author of The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood as winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, as well as What the Living Do (W. W. Norton, 1998) and The Kingdom of the Ordinary (2008), will serve as judge for the 2011 APR/Honickman First Book Prize.