Five winners will be chosen from the AWP entries and five winners will be chosen from the online entries.
The ten winners will receive an email notification by March 31, 2017 along with instructions on how to claim their prize.
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2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Etheridge Knight, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others.
Throughout its history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. Beginning in 1978, Ed Ochester has been the editor and creative force behind the series.
Ed Ochester is a former director of the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, and is professor emeritus of English there. Ochester is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars, has twice served as president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, where he received the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. He is the author of numerous poetry collections including Sugar Run Road,Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New, The Republic of Lies, and edited American Poetry Now.
2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Etheridge Knight, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others.
Ed Ochester is a former director of the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, and is professor emeritus of English there. Ochester is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars, has twice served as president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, where he received the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. He is the author of numerous poetry collections including Sugar Run Road, Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New, The Republic of Lies, and edited American Poetry Now.
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