The International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize
We're pleased to announce that the International Reginald Shepherd Prize is back in action! The contest, which seeks to honor the memory and work of Reginald Shepherd, who passed away on September 10, 2008, was first held in 2009, and then went on hiatus. Now, however, the contest is back. Here are the details:
The 2012 contest will be judged by C. Dale Young.
The submission deadline is April 30, 2012.
The first-place winner will receive a $200 gift certificate to Powell's books, publication in Knockout, and five contributor's copies.
The second-place winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to Powell's, publication, and two contributor's copies.
The third-place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate, publication, and two contributor's copies.
The entry fee is $15. All contestants will receive a copy of the issue in which the prize-winning poems appear. The entry fee entitles contestants to enter as many as six previously unpublished poems per submission, provided that the entire submission doesn't total more than 15 pages. All non-winning poems submitted will be considered for publication in Knockout. Proceeds from the contest will be dedicated to prize money and will also help produce future issues of Knockout.
To enter, please submit and pay via Submishmash, our online submission manager. You can do so by following the link below:
http://knockoutmagazine.submishmash.com/submit
2009 WINNERS (selected by Carl Phillips)
First place winner: Occupation* (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)
Second place winner: Archaic Bronze** (Christian Gullette)
Third place winner: Wood*** (Larry Bradley)
RUNNERS-UP (selected by Carl Phillips)
First runner-up: Modern Ripple**** (Rickey Laurentiis)
Second runner-up: August, near Arles**** (Richard Foerster)
Third runner-up: Faggot**** (Rickey Laurentiis)
FINALISTS (in alphabetical order by poem title, selected by Knockout’s editors)
Fourteen (Lauren K. Alleyne)
He Calls Her Etsy (Karen Schubert)
Mirror God (Rickey Laurentiis)
Mother Loved to Joke (Joe Eldridge)
Muster (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)
The Reproduction of Desire (Julie R. Enszer)
Still Birth, September 22 (Karsten Piper)
There’s Always One on the Driveway, Featherless, (Diane Seuss)
Touch (L. Lamar Wilson)
SEMIFINALISTS (in alphabetical order by poem title, selected by Knockout’s editors)
Temp Work (Emily Van Kley)
Argo Navis (Jory Michelson)
Ars Poetica: Nov. 7, 2008 (L. Lamar Wilson)
Being Young (Kelly Madigan Erlandson)
Biting on Ginger (Chip Livingston)
The Café by Foujita (Christian Gullette)
Chip & Nico (Chip Livingston)
Cutlery Tale (P. Hurshell)
Daphne (Richard Foerster)
Dear Batman (Christian Gullette)
The Face of It: A Meditation on an HIV/AIDS Poster on the A-train (Lauren K. Alleyne)
The Gift of Flight (Chip Livingston)
Going Through Life Wearing a Bathing Suit and Helmet (Amy McLennan)
He Looks at Clouds (Joe Eldridge)
How It Touches Us (Lauren K. Alleyne)
Hunting Morels (Christopher Hennessy)
Impersonal Paragraph (J. Marcus Weekley)
Invocation (Binh Nguyen)
Love with the Beer Brewer (Ching-In Chen)
—Me Tangere**** (Rickey Laurentiis)
Mnemonic Device (Binh Nguyen)
Monument Avenue (Jeffery Berg)
One Explanation (Julie R. Enszer)
Otro Banda, The Other Side (Christian Gullette)
A Prayer for the Phlebotomist (L. Lamar Wilson)
Small Traffic (Emily Van Kley)
Surrender (Christopher Hennessy)
Tarry (L. Lamar Wilson)
“The Village Advocate” by an unknown Dutch Master, c. 1600 (Robert Kramer)
That the Body Wants (Lauren K. Alleyne)
To My Father’s Blue Tuxedo (Christopher Hennessy)
Unburdened (Christopher Phelps)
Vestiges [excerpt] (Phillip Brian Williams)
What I should Have Told the Homeless Man
in Cleveland Who Mistook Me for Mary’s Son (L. Lamar Wilson)
Where Ocean Meets Sky (Derrick Austin)
The Window (Suzanne Bottelli)
The Wrestler (Christian Gullette)
**** Knockout published this poem in its fourth issue.
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