[Clive Watkins]

The winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, offered by the Waywiser Press, is Erica Dawson's Big-Eyed Afraid. Further details about Erica Dawson, about the finalists and semi-finalists, as well as an opportunity to read poems from each of their manuscripts, can be found at this link: http://waywiser-press.com/hechtprize2006.html . (Sample poems by the winner, finalists and semi-finalists from the 2005 competition can be found by clicking on the 2005 competition logo at the Waywiser site.)

Clive Watkins




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[Rose Kelleher]

Thanks, Clive. All new names to me! Browsing the sample poems at random I found some of them interesting. I esp liked Holly Karapetkova's "Postcards from the Field:: http://waywiser-press.com/hollykarapetkova.html

What do others think? I keep wondering if I should enter this one, but whenever I read the samples from the winners and finalists I end up deciding my stuff is not what they're looking for. Unfortunately that seems to be true of all judges, lol.

[Quincy Lehr]

Rose,

We're actually discussing Dawson over on the Round-Up, albeit based on a very limited sample of her work:
http://poetryroundup.createforum.net...=poetryroundup

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