Congratulations to Rob Kenagy, whose poem “End Notes” has won the Virginia Tech/Poetry Society of Virginia Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. MFA writers Michael Roche and James Stolen placed, respectively, as first and second runners-up.
Rob’s poem will earn him a small cash award, the amount of which will be determined by the Academy of American Poets.
Rob and Michael both will be nominated for the 2012 Best New Poets anthology from the University of Virginia Press. Nominated poets get to submit two poems each to Best New Poets, which showcases the work of 50 emerging writers each year.
Virginia Tech will also nominate all three poems for the 2012 Intro Journals Project, an annual competition from the Associated Writing Programs. Eventual winners of the Intro competition will receive an award letter, publication, and a $100 honorarium.
The judge for this year's competition was Susan B. A. Somers-Willett (who visits Virginia Tech next spring for a reading). All poems entered in the competition were submitted to her in standard format, without any information to identify the author.
Congratulations again to Rob, Michael, and James. We know you’ll do a great job representing Tech!
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