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Sylvia Plath at Smith *
Award: $500
Judge for 2009: Paul Muldoon
Submissions accepted: Oct. 1 - Dec. 1, 2008
One poem per student, maximum of 25 lines.
No entry fee. Application form required.
Entry Form:
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CONGRATULATIONS to the 2009 Prizewinners!
Winner:
Taylor Clarke (Phillips Academy), for her poem "Charlotte Mason"
Finalists:
Gabriella Fee (Walnut Hill High School), for "Nobska"
Stephanie Saywell (Lawrence Academy), for "Candlewick"
Bryna Cofrin-Shaw (Stonleigh Burnham), for "Things Change Size"
Read the winning poems here!
In addition to the $500 cash prize awarded to the winner, she and three finalists will receive signed copies of Horse Latitudes: Poems, by Paul Muldoon.
Winner & finalists will also spend the day at Smith College, meeting privately with Mr. Muldoon to discuss their poetry, and presenting their winning work at his evening reading on April 21, 2009.
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The Poetry Center at Smith College was founded in 1998 with the goals of bringing distinguished poets to the College, creating a video archive of their readings, promoting an appreciation of poetry in the larger community through outreach to schools. The Poetry Center celebrates Smith’s long and illustrious relationship with such world-renowned poets as Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, and Adrienne Rich.
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 Playwright, essayist, editor, translator, librettist, children’s book author, teacher, musician, and, foremost, poet, Paul Muldoon has won many distinguished awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in a house without books, he has lived in the U.S. for over twenty years. Generally regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation, Muldoon’s sidelong wit, formal ingenuity, and linguistic exuberance are legendary. He is poetry editor for The New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University |
