

	Sylvia Plath at Smith		Award: $500 Judge for 2011: Eavan Boland The winner & three finalists will read their poems at the Judge's reading at Smith College on April 3, 2012. Submissions accepted: October 1 - December 1, 2011 One poem per student, maximum of 25 lines. No entry fee. Application form required. Winners will be announced March , 2012.
	Entry Form CLICK HERE (SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN)		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.

			Ireland's greatest woman writer, Eavan Boland has published ten volumes of poetry, most recently Domestic Violence and New Collected Poems. In work that is feminist, political and deeply human, she applies her extraodinary lyric power to themes of family, history, myth, Irish landscape and poetry. Boland divides her time between Dublin and Palo Alto, where she directs creative writing program at Stanford University.
			View the 2011 winners View the 2010 winners View the 2009 winners View the 2008 winners View the 2007 winners From Sylvia Plath's journal, Smith College, April 27, 1953