Spring 2007 Winner of Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series Contest Announced
The Coastal Carolina English Department is pleased to announce the winner of the second Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series contest. The contest, open to current Coastal Carolina students, received 37 entries. The high quality of the submissions made the process of judging extremely difficult.
Our judge, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey of Emory University, selected "Country Summers, Country Songs" by Annie Silva as the winner. Annie will receive a $100.00 gift certificate to the Coastal Carolina bookstore and 25 copies of the broadside which will be produced by the end of the Spring 2007 semester in an edition of 100 numbered copies. Please join us in congratulating Annie on her winning poem.
Trethewey also awarded honorable mention to Tara Hamel’s "It Wasn’t God. It Wasn’t Me" and Amelia Gay Hammond’s "Regret." Trethewey noted that she was very impressed with the overall quality of the submissions for the contest and with the creative writing students she met during her visit to campus in February.
The "Country Summers, Country Songs" broadside will be available in the next few weeks. Those wishing to acquire a copy should contact Dan Albergotti in the Department of English (albergot@coastal.edu, 843-349-2420).
The deadline for the third contest in the Paul Rice series will be announced in the Fall 2007 semester.
We wish to thank everyone who participated in the second contest. Please consider entering a submission again next fall.
About the Contest Judge
Natasha Trethewey is the author of Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). Her third collection, Native Guard, was published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. During the 2005-2006 academic year, she held the Lehman-Brady Joint Chair Professorship of Documentary and American Studies at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill. Trethewey is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.
Reminder:
The inaugural broadside in the series, Erin Grauel’s "Cheers" is still available. Those wishing to obtain a copy should contact Dan Albergotti in the Department of English (albergot@coastal.edu, 843-349-2420). A small donation of $2.00 per copy goes to support the continuation of the Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series. Many thanks again for your support.
The Coastal Carolina English Department is pleased to announce the winner of the second Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series contest. The contest, open to current Coastal Carolina students, received 37 entries. The high quality of the submissions made the process of judging extremely difficult.
