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The New Measure Poetry Prize 2012

Parlor Press's poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is pleased to announce the fourth annual New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked in May or June of 2012. The nonrefundable entry fee is $25.00; checks and money orders should be made out to "Parlor Press." Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions will announce the winning manuscript no later than December 1, 2012. The judge for 2012 will be Jon Thompson.

The New Measure Poetry Prize Winners

2009: 13 Ways of Happily by Emily Carr [selected by Cole Swensen]
2010: Country Album by James Capozzi [selected by Jon Thompson]
2011: The Canticle of the Night Path by Jennifer Atkinson [selected by Susan Stewart]

Emily Carr's 13 ways of happily makes "Top 11 Poetry Books of 2011"

Rob McLennan chooses Emily Carr's 13 ways of happily for his "Top 11 (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011:

http://www.dusie.blogspot.com/2012/01/rob-mclennans-top-eleven-canadian....

13 ways of happily was selected in 2010 for the New Measure Poetry Prize in the Free Verse Editions series.

Congratulations, Emily!

Forthcoming in April, 2012

  • Gregory Ulmer, Avatar Emergency
  • Tom Lavazzi, Off the Page
  • Steve Parks, et al., eds. The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2011
  • Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts

New Measure Poetry Prize and Free Verse Editions Press Release 2011

Read or download the press release for the 2010 Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize and Free Verse Editions to be published in 2011.

Rational Rhetoric wins Olson Award

Cover of Rational RhetoricDavid J. Tietge's Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse has been named the winner of JAC's Gary A. Olson Award for most outstanding book in rhetorical and cultural theory. -- 26 May 2010.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing

Writing Spaces LogoParlor Press is pleased to announce an exciting new collaborative project with the WAC Clearinghouse and series editors Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a new textbook series seeking proposals for essays for the composition classroom. Each volume of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing will contain peer-reviewed collections of essays all composed by teachers for students, freely available for download under a Creative Commons license.

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