OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY COLLEGE POETRY PRIZE 2012
The Academy of American poets sponsors over 200 annual prizes for poetry at colleges and universities nationwide, including Old Dominion University. The winners and runners-up, with comments by contest judge Adrienne Su are: Graduate Winner – Kevin O’Connor: “The energetic language, the delight in repetition . . . the unexpected yet plausible images . . . and the sensory description made these poems stand out. This poet seems to savor the word and the thing equally – and to celebrate both with music.” Undergraduate Winner – Richard Frailing: “This poet knows how to get quickly from one place to another, wasting not a single word on transition, yet bringing the reader along. The proximity of words to each other – ‘skeletal’ and ‘zealots,’ ‘emptying’ and ‘entropy,’ ‘sycamore’ and ‘mysterious’ – suggests a sensitive ear.” Graduate Honorable Mention – Jeffery Turner Undergraduate Honorable Mention – Amanda Ralph Lawson
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