2007-12-14

 
Poetry Awards

I just heard today that I am the co-winner (with Johnny T Hernandez Jr.)
of the Academy of American Poets contest for 2007-2008
at the University of California, Berkeley.

The poem can be read if you click here.

The judge has commented:
"The poem by #xxxx is a beautifully cadenced series of images. They have a
striking, almost surreal character, thanks to the markedly original
lexical juxtapositions with which the poet builds his or her phrases. This
is a tough-minded but melancholy poem, reflecting on the world that's
immediately at hand."

I am very flattered, especially since this is one of the few times I've shown my poetry and indeed even won a prize.

EDIT: It later was announced that I'd been selected as co-recipient for a second prize from the UC competitions, the Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Lyric Poetry. It can be read here.

posted by MM 12:02 PM