Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition

2005 Competition Winner

Dan Albergotti of Greensboro is the winner of the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition for his collection, Charon's Manifest. His chapbook will be published later this year by Harperprints of Henderson, NC. He will also receive a prize of $200, and have a reading and reception in his honor in the Greensboro area.

Albergotti is a native of South Carolina with BA and MA degrees in English from Clemson University and a Ph.D. in English from The University of South Carolina. After teaching stints at Alabama and Auburn, he moved to Greensboro in 2000 where he completed his MFA in poetry at UNC-Greensboro and served as the poetry editor of the Greensboro Review. Since the fall of 2003 he has taught English at Elon University. During the summer of 2004 he was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Richard Soref Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Beginning in the fall, he will be Assistant Professor of English at Coastal Carolina.

His poems have been published in Ascent, Mid-American Review, Meridian, The Southern Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

The final judge for the competition, poet Thom Ward, the Editor of BOA Editions, said of Albergotti's work: "Charon's Manifest is replete with poems where the word made flesh meets the flesh made word. Through Dan Albergotti's nimble imagination many Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian mythologies are spun on their heads. It is a playful, dark and surprising ride-and we enjoy every minute of it."

Runners-up

This year's competition awarded two runners-up:

• Gary Ettari of Candler, NC, is a runner-up for Local Habitation
• Andrea Bates of Wilmington, NC, is a runner-up for Muse in Sequins and Feathers