Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry 2013 Now Open For Submissions

Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation are thrilled to announce that submissions are open for the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry 2013. Submissions will be accepted from December 3, 2012, to January 31, 2013. The prize-winning collection will be announced in April 2013 and published the following winter.  Visit http://milkweed.org/ for details and complete submission guidelines.

This annual regional prize—open to poets currently residing in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin—will award $10,000 as well as a contract for publication to the author of the winning manuscript. Finalists for the prize will be selected by the editors of Milkweed Editions, with the winner selected by an independent judge, chosen yearly from among the ranks of eminent regional and national writers.  This year’s judge will be G.C. Waldrep.

G.C. Waldrep is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, most recently Archicembalo (Tupelo Press, 2009), winner of the Dorset Prize, and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011), a collaboration with the poet John Gallaher. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently “St. Laszlo Hotel” (Projective Industries, 2010) and “Susquehanna” (Omnidawn, forthcoming 2013). With Ilya Kaminsky he co-edited Homage to Celan (Marick Press, 2011), and with Joshua Corey he co-edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012). His work has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, PA, where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits the journal West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.

Milkweed Editions is one of the nation’s leading independent publishers, with a mission to identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it. The Lindquist & Vennum Foundation was established by the Minneapolis-headquartered law firm of Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP, and is a donor-advised fund of The Minneapolis Foundation. This partnership between Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation will celebrate poets for their artistic contributions, and bring outstanding regional writers to a national stage. The inaugural Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry 2012 was awarded to Patricia Kirkpatrick of St. Paul, Minnesota for her collection Odessa, and the honorary judge was Peter Campion.