The American Poetry Review -

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2012 Kunitz Prize

Elizabeth — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:24:27 -0500

The Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize has been established by The American Poetry Review to honor the late Stanley Kunitz’s dedication to mentoring poets. The winning poem will appear on the feature page of the September/October 2012 issue of The American Poetry Review, and the poet will receive a prize of $1,000. All entrants will receive a copy of the magazine. Poets may submit one to three poems per entry (totaling no more than three pages) with a $15 entry fee by May 15, 2012. No limit on number of entries per poet.

2012 Honickman Book Prize Winner Announced

Elizabeth — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:41:44 -0500

Tomás Q. Morín has been awarded the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his manuscript A Larger Country. His book was chosen by this year’s guest judge, esteemed poet Tom Sleigh, who will also write an introduction for it.

Jerome J. Shestack Prize Winners

Elizabeth — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:25:48 -0400

The Editors of The American Poetry Review are pleased to announce that the recipients of the Jerome J. Shestack Prizes for 2010 are Matthew Lippman for “Marriage Pants” and other poems and Mary Ruefle for “Goodnight Irene” and other poems. The Shestack Prize awards $1,000 each to two poets whose outstanding work appeared in the magazine in the previous year.

2011 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize Winner

Elizabeth — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:43:00 -0400

The Editors of APR are happy to announce that Alex Dimitrov has been awarded the 2011 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets for his poem “Darling.” The poem will appear on the feature page of the September/October 2011 issue of the magazine.

Tom Sleigh to Judge 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize

Elizabeth — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:44:01 -0400

APR is delighted to announce that Tom Sleigh will judge the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Sleigh’s many honors include the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award for his book, Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, was published by Graywolf Press in 2006. He has also published After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, and a translation of Euripides’ Herakles. He has won the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Berlin, the Guggenheim and the NEA. In 2011 he received the inaugural John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His newest book is Army Cats (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).