THE COMSTOCK REVIEW ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST 2012
Final Judge: Dorianne Laux
more information on our judge at http://doriannelaux.com/
Initial Screening by Editors
First Prize - $1 ,000
2nd Prize -$250; 3rd Prize - $100;
Honorable Mentions - Subscriptions
DEADLINE: Postmark by July 1, 2012
Here’s how it works- Our Editorial staff chooses approximately 50 - 60 Finalists. The highest scoring Finalists (25 or so) are considered Special Merit Poems. Special Merit Poems go to the Judge. The Judge determines the top three Prize Winners, The entire editorial staff then selects the honorable mentions from the remaining Special Merits. All Special Merit poems are considered accepted work.
The Rules:
1. Each poem on a separate 8.5 by 11 page, typed.
2. Poems must be original, unpublished in ANY Medium,print or electronic,
and not under consideration elsewhere. Simultaneously submitted poems will
disqualify ALLof a poet's poems from consideration.
Please check your records carefully before submitting.
3. No poem must exceed 40 lines, beginning with the first line of text
below the title. DO NOT count blank lines. Please also consider
our 65 character line width when submitting.
4. Name and ALL contact information on the REVERSE side
of EACH poem entered. If not included, we have to disqualify your entry.
5. Send SASE for results only. No Poems will be returned.
6. All Prize Winners, Honorable Mentions, and Special Merit Poems
are considered accepted work, and will be published in Issue 26.2
(Fall/Winter 2012). (That means all poems that go to the final judge for consideration
of the top prize.) Other Finalists whose poems did not go to the judge,
will be queried for permission to use their work. A non-response is considered
a yes. All accepted authors will receive one contributor’s copy of the issue.
7. An entry fee of $5 per poem is required for each poem submitted. No limit
on the number of poems at $5 each.
Special offer for 2012: Order a one-year subscription with your entry
at the discounted price of $17 (normally priced $20). If outside the US,
add $5 per copy for postage. Make check out to "The Comstock Review."
Send contest submissions, after April 1, 2012 to:
CWG Poetry Contest 2012
4956 St. John Drive
Syracuse, NY 13215
Also click here for Contest Guidelines which offer many further explanations of the rules and editor preferences.
*Red section above highlighted since we often receive poems that fall outside the rules and they will be disqualified unless we can reach the poets and have them resubmitted following the rules. The Editors
Final Judge for 2012: Dorianne Laux
more information on our judge at http://doriannelaux.com/
PREVIOUS JUDGES:
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Judge for 2011: Marilyn Nelson
more information on our judge at www.soulmountainretreat.org
Judge for 2010: Charles Martin
Charles Martin was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up in the Bronx. He is a graduate of Fordham University in New York City and received his Doctorate from SUNY at Buffalo. His most recent book of poems, Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems (The Overlook Press, 2002), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was chosen as a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Two of his earlier books of poems, What the Darkness Proposes (1996) and Steal the Bacon (1987), were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Boulevard, and The Threepenny Review, among others.
About his work, the poet X. J. Kennedy has said: "A poet of masterly command, Charles Martin can think fiercely and feel intensely. He can captivate us with a sustained narrative, or dazzle us with a wicked epigram."
Martin is an acclaimed translator of Latin poetry. His verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (W. W. Norton, 2003) received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has also published translations of the complete poems of Catullus (Johns Hopkins, 1990) and a critical introduction to Catullus's work which is part of Yale University Press's Hermes Series.
He is the recipient of the Literature award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, a 2001 Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
A professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), he also teaches poetry at Syracuse University, and has taught workshops at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the West Chester Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry, and the Unterberg Center of the 92nd Street YMHA. In 2006, he was appointed Cathedral Poet in Residence at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. He lives in Manhattan and Syracuse with his wife, arts journalist Johanna Keller. (With thanks to: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/324)
Judge for 2009: Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (from poets.org/ was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She has published eleven books of poetry, including Connecting the Dots (W. W. Norton, 1996); Looking for Luck (1992), which received the Poets' Prize; Nurture (1989); The Long Approach (1986); Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems (1982); House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate (1975); and Up Country: Poems of New England (1972), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery (W. W. Norton, 2000); four novels; a collection of short stories; more than twenty children's books; and four books of essays, most recently Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2000) and Women, Animals, and Vegetables (1994). She has received the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Poetry, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Sarah Joseph Hale Award, the Levinson Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, and the National Council on the Arts. She has served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She lives in New Hampshire.
Judge for 2008: Marie Howe
Judge for 2007: Carolyn Forche
Judge for 2006: Thomas Lux
Judge for 2005: Cornelius Eady
For information and sample poems, including audio, visit: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n1/poetry/eady_c/
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