Announcing the Second Annual William Matthews Poetry Prize
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The 2012 William Matthews Poetry Prize
**Update: The deadline for The 2012 William Matthews Poetry Prize has been extended to February 1st.**
Asheville Poetry Review will be accepting entries for the second annual William Matthews Poetry Prize from September 15, 2011 through January 15, 2012 (postmark dates).
First Prize: $1,000, publication in Asheville Poetry Review, and a featured reading at the nationally acclaimed Wordfest Literary Festival
Second Prize: $250, publication, and a featured reading at Wordfest
Third Prize: Publication and a featured reading at Wordfest
Final Judge: David Wagoner
The final judging process will be “blind” (all identifying information will be removed from the poems).
All submissions will be considered for publication.
Postmark Deadline: January 15, 2012
Send 1-3 poems, any style, any theme, any length, with a $20 entry fee (payable to Asheville Poetry Review) to:
William Matthews Poetry Prize
c/o Asheville Poetry Review
PO Box 7086
Asheville, NC 28802
Back issue content recently added
The Asheville Poetry Review website is in the process of an all-inclusive update. Our mission is to make all of the content of our back issues available online, creating an archive that contains the complete publishing history of our first fifteen years, dating from our first issue, published in June 1994. We thank you for your patience as we update this site.
Below you’ll find links to the most recently added poetry, reviews, essays and interviews.
The Angels of Our Expectations
The Fiction of History
Double Elegy: for a Child, for an Old Man
Morning Of The Duel
Caleb
Of Flesh and Heaven
Never Too Late
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For Camilla Wren McDaniel
— translated from the Latin by A. E. Stallings
Existence
— translated from the Spanish by Louis Bourne