Winner of the 2010 Omnidawn CHAPBOOK Poetry Prize:
The Man Who Lost His Head
by Zach Savich
Selected by Elizabeth Robinson
To be published by Omnidawn in 2010
Zach Savich's first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the 2008 Iowa
Poetry Prize and received a New American Poet honor from the Poetry
Society of America. His second, Annulments, won the 2010 Colorado
Prize for Poetry, selected by Donald Revell. His poems, essays, and
book reviews have appeared in many journals, including Boston Review,
Kenyon Review, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, and Poetry Northwest.
A recipient of a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from
the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Savich has lived and taught
in Italy, France, New Zealand, and around the US. He currently teaches
and studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he helps
organize the jubilat/Jones Reading Series.
Here are the five finalists, selected by Elizabeth Robinson:
(Listed in alphabetical order by the poets’ last names. There is no ranking
order for our finalists)
The City Salutes Itself, by Jackie Clark (Jersey City, NJ)
verbs without a past, by Robin Powlesland (Taos, NM)
Dogbook, by Kate Schapira (Providence, RI)
Quarry, by Shannon Tharp (Seattle, WA)
Break-Night Dawn, by Erin Wilson (Berkeley, CA)
Ben Lerner will judge the 2011 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. We
will be accepting electronic and postal submissions: 3/1/11 to 6/30/11. More
information about this contest will be available in the coming months.
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