Lost Horse Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 2004 Idaho Prize for Poetry:
HURRY BACK by Alvin
Greenberg
Alvin Greenberg is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and librettist. His new novel, Time Lapse, was published in 2003 by Tupelo Press, and The University of Utah Press published his collection of personal essays, The Dog of Memory: A Family Album of Secrets and Silences, in 2002. His most recent collection of short stories, How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from Graywolf Press; previous collections include The Man in the Cardboard Mask (Coffee House Press), Delta q (University of Missouri Press), and The Discovery of America (Louisiana State University Press). His collections of poetry include Why We Live with Animals (Coffee House Press), Heavy Wings (Ohio Review Press), and In/Direction (David R. Godine). He has also collaborated on three operas with composer Eric Stokes, most recently Apollonia's Circus (premiered at the University of Minnesota, 1994). After teaching for thirty four years in the Macalester College English Department in St. Paul, Minnesota, he now lives in Boise, Idaho, where his wife, poet Janet Holmes, teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.
Publication date for HURRY BACK is December 2004. Please
ask for HURRY BACK and the other fine Lost Horse titles at your
book store, or order it directly from Lost Horse Press, or contact
our distributor, Small Press Distribution of Berekeley, California.
Lost Horse Press wishes to thank all of this year's entrants of The Idaho Prize for Poetry, and special thanks to final judge, Marvin Bell.
The Idaho Prize 2004 Results
2004 guest judge, Marvin Bell, selected the winner of the first
annual The Idaho Prize for Poetry. The winning poet, Alvin Greenberg,
received an honorarium of $1200 and publication of his collection
of poetry, Hurry Back.
Winner The Idaho Prize 2004
Hurry Back by Alvin
Greenberg
Finalists:
Landscape with Silos by Deborah Bogen
The Devil’s Calligraphy by Matt Yurdana
American Common Prayers by Robert Brian Strong
These Blue Rooms by Laura Read
The Untested Hand by Richard Robbins
The School of Weeping by Jennifer Maier
Mister Five-by-Five by Philip Dacey
The Last Days of Elvis by D. James Smith
A Change of Maps by Carolyne Wright
Thanks to everyone who submitted their work.
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The Idaho Prize is a national competition offering $1200 plus publication for a book-length manuscript. All US poets are eligible!
Please submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, a $20 reading fee and SASE (for notification only) to:
THE IDAHO PRIZE
Lost Horse Press
105 Lost Horse Lane
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
All manuscripts must be received by May 15, 2004
Poems may have appeared in journals and chapbooks, but not in full-length single-author collections. It is not necessary to remove names and acknowledgements pages. Contest participants will be notified of the results by July 15, 2004. The identity of the final judge will be revealed at that time.
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