U.S. Poets in Mexico is pleased to announce our 2nd Annual
Mérida Fellowship AwardDeadline: October 15, 2010
Winner announced: November 1, 2010Judge: Maureen Owen
Maureen Owen is the author of ten poetry titles, most recently Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. Other books include Imaginary Income, Zombie Notes, a brass choir approaches the burial ground, The No-Travels Journal, and Untapped Maps. She has work most recently published in YAWP magazine, Columbia Review, Hanging Loose, Poems from the Women’s Movement, The library of America, ed. Honor Moore, and Visiting Wallace, Univ. of Iowa Press (eds. Dennis Barone and James Finnegan). Maureen is a recipient of an NEA Writing Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts grant and most recently a Fund for Poetry grant. She currently teaches at Naropa University both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program and is editor-in-chief of Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night.
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The Mérida Fellowship Award is awarded annually to one American poet (over 18 years of age) to participate in our workshops with tuition and registration fees paid, a hotel room for the week, our schedule day trips and optional Spanish lessons.
To enter the contest: Send 4-6poems, no more than 6 pages in total, 12 pt. Times New Roman type. Do not put your name or address on submitted poems. Previously published poems will be accepted. Contest submissions will not be returned. Enclose your poems, a check for $25 (entry fee) and the Application.Mail to:
U.S. Poets in Mexico
P.O. Box 4150
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
