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The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is named for a former director of the Press.
Gudding is the author of the books, Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta Press, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive, 2007), and A Defense of Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He has given hundreds of poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America.
The press is especially known for literary publishing, particularly its Pitt Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, [3] and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The press also publishes the winner of the annual Donald Hall Prize, awarded by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Pages in category "Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Her first book, Mad River, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1994. Some of Beatty's poetry, considered sexually explicit, led to problems with a scheduled reading at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in April 2008.
The collection, with themes of myth, identity, domestic life, and loss, won the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for a first book. [6] Her second collection, Darwin’s Mother , published in 2017 also by University of Pittsburgh Press , is an exploration of evolution, natural science, and humanity’s place in the world, [ 7 ] and was a finalist ...
Her first book of poetry, The White Wave (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her second volume, The Niobe Poems (University of Pittsburgh, 1988), received honorable mention for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
Miriam Bird Greenberg is an American poet.She is author of four poetry collections: In the Volcano's Mouth, which won the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the chapbooks All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013) and Pact-Blood, Fever Grass (Ricochet Editions, 2013); and the limited-edition letterpress artist book The Other World, which won ...