Judge: Natasha Sajé
Entry Dates: Feb. 15 - May 15
*Submit up to 3 unpublished poems
*$10 Submission Fee
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*Winner receives $200 and publication in Crab Creek Review
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Natasha Sajé’s first book of poems, Red
Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), was chosen from over 900 manuscripts to win the Agnes Lynch
Starrett prize, and was later awarded the Towson State Prize in Literature. Her second collection of poems, Bend, was published by Tupelo Press in 2004
and awarded the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Her third book of poems, Vivarium, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She has recently
completed a critical book about poetry, Windows
and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory.
Sajé
was born in Munich, Germany, in 1955 and grew up in New York City and Northern
New Jersey. She earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from
Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park, for
a study titled, "'Artful Artlessness': Reading the Coquette in the Novel,
1724-1913." Her honors include the
Bannister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College, the Robert Winner and the
Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards from the Poetry Society of America, the 2002
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Slovenia, a Camargo
Fellowship in France, and grants from the states of Maryland and Utah. Sajé was
a Maryland poet-in-the-schools 1989-1998.
Her poems, reviews, and essays appear in many journals, including The
Henry James Review; Kenyon Review; New Republic; Paris Review; Parnassus; Chelsea; Gettysburg
Review; Legacy: Journal of American
Women Writers; Ploughshares; Pool; and
The Writer’s Chronicle. Sajé has been teaching in the low residency Vermont
College MFA in Writing Program since 1996, and is a professor of English at
Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she administers the Weeks Poetry
Series.
