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2022 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE AWARDS

2022 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE AWARDS

CONTEST JUDGE: John Yau

($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

“Translation Zone” by Brian Cochran

($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

Contest Judge John Yau on Translation Zone: Brian Cochran’s poems are precise clusters of sounds through which meaning peeks; they are allegories that slip out of that category as soon as we try to fix them there; they are rivers meeting but not quite blending; they are hummingbirds bursting through the page; they are locations and glimpses; they are migrations of thought, sound, and feelings – “a thousand voices in the wakened field”; they scrutinize differences (“Crows are big,, but ravens are enormous, roughly the size of a red-tailed hawk.”); they move effortlessly from “ellision” to “ellison”, all while attending to what is and what isn’t there and here, wherever we are in the vastness of our particular geography. They are poems in prose, words distributed across the page, narrow columns, field guides, and letters. Through the medium of poetry, the poet channels the spirits of Jack Spicer, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Julia Alvarez, Philip Guston, and dreams of werewolves, and yet they are unmistakably by Brian Cochran. One might say these poems, in all their sensuous densities, are not for everyone, but I would say that they are just for you.

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD

“The War in the War” by Dennis Etzel, Jr.

($250.00 Cash Prize)

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD

“Bamboo On the Tracks” by Tony Wallin-Sato

($250.00 Cash Prize)

FINALISTS

Jeremy Schmidt

Brian Strang

Adam Scheffler

Nancy Davis

Daniel Meltz

Danielle Hanson

Sawnie Morris

Michael Opperman

Freke Räihä

Melissa Tuckey

Adam Day

Marsh Hawk Press Artistic Advisory Board

Sandy McIntosh, Executive Editor and Publisher

Tony Trigilio, Managing Editor

Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
David Lehman
Alicia Ostriker
Andrew Levy
Anne Waldman
John Yau

In Memory of David Shapiro, Gerald Stern, Marie Ponsot, Robert Creeley, Paul Pines, Allan Kornblum, Rochelle Ratner, Corinne Robins, Madeline Tiger, Claudia Carlson, Heather Wood, and Harriet Zinnes. 

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Praise for Books

PAUL PINES: Charlotte Songs

The great themes—like Love, Death and Family— have inspired masterpieces and, alas, Hallmark Cards. In Charlotte Songs, Paul Pines celebrates his daughter. But, if you want the Hallmark Card version of fatherhood, you’ve come to the wrong place. Pines gives us the full paradox of living with his child as she grows from toddler to young woman. Inventive, humorous, baffling and poignant.

— Dalt Wonk
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