Jane Ellen Glasser Wins 2005 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Jane Ellen Glasser (Photo by Jill Snapp)
Jane Ellen Glasser of Norfolk, Virginia, has won the 2005 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She will receive a $1,000 cash award plus hardcover and quality paperback book publication by the University of Tampa Press for her winning manuscript, entitled "Light Persists."
A selection of poems from the forthcoming book will appear as a “sneak preview” in one of the next issues of Tampa Review.
Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, and Connecticut Poetry Review. Her first collection of poetry, Naming the Darkness, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. D. Snodgrass, was issued by Road Publishers in 1991.
Judges of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry identified twelve finalists, including Glasser, in the 2005 competition. Other finalists are:
Christopher Bursk of Langhorne Manor, Pa., for “The First Inhabitants of Arcadia”;
David Floyd of Lansdowne, Pa., for “The Sudden Architecture of the Dark”;
Kirk Glaser of Santa Cruz, Ca., for “A Leaf of Ash”;
Edward Haworth Hoeppner of Rockford, Mich., for “Blue Ancestral”;
David Lloyd of Manlius, N.Y., for “The Gospel According to Frank”;
Richard Lyons of Mississippi State, Miss., for “Fleur Carnivore”;
Jim Peterson of Lynchburg, Va., for “The Horse Who Bears Me Away”;
Richard Robbins of Mankato, Minn., for “Other Americas”;
Barry Silesky of Chicago, Ill., for “This Disease”;
Helen Wallace of St. Petersburg, Fla., for “Shimming the Glass House”; and
Laurelyn Whitt of Spanish Fork, Utah, for “interstices.”
The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry is given annually for a previously unpublished booklength manuscript. Winners receive $1,000, hardcover and quality paperback book publication by the University of Tampa Press, and royalties on sales of their books.
Submissions are now being accepted. Entries must follow published guidelines and must be postmarked by December 31, 2005.
Guidelines are available here or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, University of Tampa Press, 401 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606.
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J. T. Rogers Wins 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama
J. T. Rogers
Playwright J. T. Rogers of Brooklyn, New York, has received the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama for his play Madagascar.
The play will be published in hardcover and paperback editions in fall 2005 by the University of Tampa Press. The winner also receives a $1,000 prize and royalties on sales of the book.
Rogers was also recently selected as one of ten playwrights in the nation to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004-2005, through which he is currently playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company. In addition to the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, Madagascar has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award, and was a finalist for the ATCA’s Steinberg New Play Award.
Madagascar will be seen this July off Broadway as part of the SPF Summer Play Festival and at The Adirondack Theatre Festival. From September 9-October 9 it will be performed in Florida at the New Theatre in Coral Gables.
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Carslaw's Sequences Among Finalists
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Poet Lisa M. Steinman's 2003 collection of poetry Carslaw's Sequences has been named as one of five finalists for the 2004 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. The winner we be announced in November. For more information please visit literary-arts.org.
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Lola Haskins to Read at University
Lola Haskins, award-winning poet and frequent contributor to Tampa Review will be reading Tuesday, October 19, 2004 in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery (Located in the Bailey Art Studios, 310 N. Boulevard).
This event is free and open to the public
Lola Haskins' work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Review of Books, Beliot Poetry Journal, Gereofia Review, Sourthern Review and more. Among Ms. Haskins' awards are the Iowa Poetry Prize (for Hunger); narrative poetry prizes from Southern Review and the New England Review; the Emily Dickinson/Writer Magazine Award from the Poetry Society of America; two NEAs and four grants from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
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Novelist Samrat Upadhyay Visits the University of Tampa
Samrat Upadhyay, the first Nepalese fiction author writing in English to be published in the West, visited the Reeves Theatre at the Univeristy of Tampa September 23 and read a selection of fiction from an upcoming novel. He is the author of The Guru of Love and Arresting God in Kathmandu.
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University of Tampa Press Book Selected for Minnesota Book Award
The Minnesota Humanities Commission announced Sunday, April 25, that poet Richard Terrill, whose book Coming Late to Rachmaninoff was published by the University of Tampa Press, is this year's winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry.
The 16th Annual Minnesota Book Awards were announced at the downtown Landmark Center in St. Paul Minn., Sunday following a day-long festival honoring the finalists. The ceremony was broadcast on Minnesota public television at 8 p.m. on May 2.
"The Minnesota Book Awards have recognized literary excellence for over fifteen years and have established a national reputation," said Richard Mathews, director of the University of Tampa Press. "This award is a much-deserved honor for Richard Terrill, who is a wonderful contemporary poet. He has just received one of the country's major book prizes and I hope it will bring him to the attention of an even wider audience of readers."
More information about the awards is available online at the Minnesota Humanities Comission web site:
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