The American Poetry Review

There’s still time to submit for the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize! The deadline has been extended until May 31, 2012. Complete guidelines and online submissions available here: http://americanpoetryreview.submishmash.com/submit/11755/account

The Editors of APR are honored that Fanny Howe will judge the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. 

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her recent collections of poetry include Come and See (2011), The Lyrics (2007), On the Ground (2004), and Gone (2003). Her Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice, as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute and the MacDowell Colony. Complete guidelines for the prize can be found here.

Nathaniel Perry’s first book of poems, Nine Acres, won the 2011 APR/Honickman First Book prize, judged by Marie Howe. Nine Acres is written in meter and rhyme. Each poem is constructed of four stanzas in tetrameter—an approach not found in abundance in today’s poetry journals. Second, the poems are all from the point of view of a single speaker and take their titles from the chapters of a 1935 farming handbook by M.G. Kains called Five Acres and Independence.

As you will see at the bottom of the main navigation bar, The American Poetry Review is now able to receive submissions online! Regular submissions to the magazine and contest entries for the Honickman First Book Prize or the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize can all be entered here.

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.

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.

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.