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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011 16:36 |
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. . . to Lou Lipsitz of Chapel Hill, who has been awarded the 2010 Blue Lynx Prize for his poetry collection, If This World Falls Apart, his fourth full-length book of poems. The prize carries a $2,000 cash award, and publication by Lynx House Press, a Spokane based independent literary publisher that began sponsoring this national manuscript competition in 1996. The book will be released in April 2011, and copies can be ordered from www.lynxhousepress.org. Final judge for this year’s competition was Christopher Buckley. Previous judges include Yusef Komunyakaa, David Wojahn, Robert Wrigley, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Dara Wier, and Dorianne Laux. The prize is given to a U.S. poet, regardless of publication history, for a full-length book manuscript of poems.
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