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Sylvia Plath at Smith *
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Award: $500
Judge for 2010: Tracy K. Smith
In addition to the $500 cash prize awarded to the winner, she and three finalists will receive signed copies of Duende, by Tracy K. Smith.
Winners & finalists will also spend the day at Smith College, meeting privately with Ms. Smith to discuss their poetry, and presenting their winning work at her evening reading on March 23, 2010.
Submissions accepted: October 1 - December 1, 2009
One poem per student, maximum of 25 lines.
No entry fee. Application form required.
Winners will be announced March 15, 2010.
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Entry Form
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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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Tracy K. Smith’s second book, Duende, won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. and she is the recipient of awards from the Rona Jaffe, Mrs. Giles Whiting, and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundations. Educated at Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford, where she was a Wallace Stegnar Fellow, Smith is currently an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. Joy Harjo has called Smith’s “stunning” work “a true merging of the ancient roots of poetry with the language of an age of a different kind of sense.”
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