$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press
Final Judge: CORNELIUS EADY
Postmark Deadline: 9/30/2012
Previous
Winners: Ariana Nadia Nash, Lory Bedikian, Sarah Wetzel, Shane Seely,
Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke, Fleda
Brown.
2012 GUIDELINES
Manuscript
should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-100
pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title
pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of
the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously.
Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn
immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $25. Checks
should be made out to ÒFresno State (Levine Prize)Ó. Poets can submit
more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry
and must be accompanied by the $25 fee. Online payments can be made via
credit or debit card at the link below. Please note, online entry fee is
$25 plus an additional $3.38 service charge. The Vendini system
resembles an event ticketing system, but is simply a method of accepting
online credit and debit card payments.
Mail Entries to: Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
Department of English, Mail Stop PB 98 5245 N. Backer Ave. California
State University, Fresno Fresno, California 93740-8001
Cornelius Eady was born in 1954 in Rochester, New York. He is the
author of several books of poetry, the most recent being the critically
acclaimed "Hardheaded Weather" (Penguin, 2008), which has been nominated
for an NAACP Image Award. His other titles are: "Kartunes," (Warthog
Press, 1980); "Victims of the Latest Dance Craze," (Ommation Press,
1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American
Poets; "The Gathering of My Name," (Carnegie Mellon University Press,
1991), nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; "You DonÕt Miss
Your Water," (Henry Holt and Co., 1995); "The Autobiography of a
Jukebox" (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997); and "Brutal
Imagination" (Putnam, 2001). His work appears in many journals;
magazines; and the anthologies "Every Shut Eye AinÕt Asleep," "In Search
of Color Everywhere," and "The Vintage Anthology of African American
Poetry," (1750-2000) ed. Michael S. Harper.
With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave
Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He
is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature (1985); a John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, (1993); a Lila Wallace-Readers
Digest Traveling Scholarship to Tougaloo College in Mississippi
(1992-1993); a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy,
(1993); and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award (1994). In June 1997, an
adaptation of "You Don't Miss Your Water" was performed at the Vineyard
Theatre, in New York City. In April 1999, "Running Man," a
music-theatre piece co-written with jazz musican Diedre Murray, was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and awarded a 1999 Obie for
best musical score and lead actor in a musical.
Eady has taught poetry at SUNY Stony Brook, where he
directed its Poetry Center; City College; Sarah Lawrence College; New
York University; The WriterÕs Voice; The 92nd St Y; The College of
William and Mary; and Sweet Briar College. In January 2002, a production
of "Brutal Imagination" (with a score by Diedre Murray) opened at the
Vineyard Theatre, where it won the 2002 Oppenheimer award for the best
first play by an American Playwright. At present he is Professor of
English and the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at
the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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