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The 2023 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZES

2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize Winners

The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
($1,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book)

Chosen by Mary Jo Bang

Liane Strauss: “The Flaws of the Story”

Mary Jo Bang writes: Like Penelope’s daily weaving, ripped out each night in order to keep in play the possibility of a happy ending (Odysseus’s return, Laertes death forestalled), each of these fascinating poems is part of a larger story, each an exquisitely observed vignette that pinpoints a moment of conversation, or observation, or travel, that reveals, much like a chapter in a novel might, a set of characters with moods and conundrums. As the scenes accrue, the individual points in time become an inner life made visible, a brilliant enactment of a mind talking back to the world: “I know as soon as I wake up it’s time to start rethinking everything again.” Unputadownable, as in “so gripping as to be read right through at one sitting.”

 

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD
($250.00 Cash Prize)

Chosen by Mary Jo Bang

James Zukin: “Mr. Hand & Ms. Viz”

 

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD
($250.00 Cash Prize)

Chosen by the Marsh Hawk Press Editorial Board

George Looney: “Music Inherent in the Extremities”

 

FINALISTS

Allison Blevins, Elizabeth Coleman, Christian Gullette, Sarah Carey, Brandi George, Michael Weinstein, Patty Seyburn,

  1. Minnick, Derek Mattern, Lea Graham, Kathleen Winter, Elizabeth Rees, Connor Fisher, Ellen Malphrus, Cory McClellan

 

 

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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