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The Morton Marr Poetry Prize
The Morton Marr Poetry Prize is an endowment by Marilyn Klepak of Dallas in honor of her father, whose love of poetry has encouraged her to pass this love on to others. Generous supplemental donations were also provided by Mr. and Mrs. David T. Searls, Jr. The first prize is $1,000 and the second place prize is $500. Both prizes earn publication in Southwest Review pages. Judging for 2007 was Debora Greger.
RULES: This contest is open to writers who have not yet published a first book of poetry. Contestants may submit no more than six, previously unpublished poems in a "traditional" form (e.g. sonnet, sestina, villanelle, rhymed stanzas, blank verse, etc.). Poems should be printed blank with name and address information only on a cover sheet or letter. (If work is submitted online, please omit the author's name from the final "submission content text area"). There is a $5.00 per poem entry/handling fee. Postmarked deadline for entry is September 30, 2008. Submissions will not be returned. For notification of winning poems, include a SASE. Entries should be addressed to: The Morton Marr Poetry Prize, Southwest Review, P.O. Box 750374, Dallas, TX 75275-0374.
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The Morton Marr Poetry Prize
2007 Winners
Gretchen Steele Pratt
First Place
"Black Baldwin Grand"
(Volume 93, number 1)
Gretchen Steele Pratt's poems are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Iowa Review, RATTLE, and The Greensboro Review. She recently received her MFA from Purdue University.
Bradford Gray Telford
Second Place
"Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Analyst"
(Volume 93, number 1)
Bradford Gray Telford has published work in The Yale Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others. A doctoral candidate at The University of Houston, he won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for his work on the poetry of Geneviève Huttin. His translation of Huttin's book The Story of My Voice will appear in 2009.
Honorable Mention:
Elisabeth Rosen
"Extinctions"
and
Chloë
Joan López
"Critique by Tiger"
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