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. The editors of The American Poetry Review will judge submissions anonymously, in compliance with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Code of Ethics.

Guidelines

1. Poets must be under 40 years of age.
2. All entries must be previously unpublished poems.
3. Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the title of the work.
4. Enclose a $15.00 reading fee and a SASE for contest results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee.
5. Entry fee covers up to three poems, totaling no more than three pages.
6. Contest entries must be postmarked before May 15, 2011.
7. Contest results will be announced by July 1, 2011.

Send submissions to:

The American Poetry Review

Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize

1700 Sansom Street, Suite 800

Philadelphia, PA 19103.

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.

Morín is a Texas native.  He received his MFA from Texas State University, and MA from Johns Hopkins University.  He is the recipient of scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and was a fellow at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Program.  He is a Senior Lecturer at Texas State University.

His poems have appeared in New England Review, Narrative, Boulevard, Slate,Threepenny Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. 

Congratulations, Tomás!

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.

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.

Alex Dimitrov’s first book of poems, Begging For It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Tin House, and Boston Review. He works at the Academy of American Poets and frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine.

(photo credit: Rachel Silveri)

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).