Surprise #1: A lot of Kindle
The Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
Surprise #2: I had to go to #33 to find a book of real contemporary poetry - Evidence by Mary Oliver
Stephen Dunn
has published fifteen volumes of poetry, including Different Hours, which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the recently released What Goes On, Selected & New Poems: 1995-2009 (Norton, 2009).
He has received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, an Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, the James Wright Prize from Mid-American Review and many others.
A new and expanded edition of his book of essays, Walking Light, was published in 2001.
He is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, but spends most of his time these days in Frostburg, Maryland with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.
Stephen will lead two special Advanced Poetry Writing sessions at the Getaway.
"One" by Butch McElroy
We had a
'Most commonly misspelled word'
Spelling test
Yesterday in English,
Fourth Period.
I commonly misspelled them all.
Except one.
Loneliness
Was the only one I got right.
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The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press and Swallow Press (postmark deadline October 31)
The Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition (postmark deadline October 31)
Miller Williams Poetry Prize from University of Arkansas Press (postmark deadline October 31)
The T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press (postmark deadline October 31)
Bakeless Literary Prize in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (postmark deadline November 1)
CBC Literary Awards for Canadian citizens and residents (postmark deadline November 1)
Donald Justice Poetry Prize from West Chester University (postmark deadline November 1)
Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book by a woman (postmark deadline November 15)
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (postmark deadline November 15)
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (postmark deadline November 15
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards (postmark deadline November 16)
Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition (postmark/online entry deadline November 29)
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions, Ltd. (postmark deadline November 30)
Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition (postmark deadline November 30)
The Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (postmark deadline November 30)
The Plough Prize Poetry Competition (postmark/email deadline November 30)
The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press (postmark deadline December 1)
Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books (postmark deadline December 1)