{"id":32212263621,"date":"2013-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/michael-waters-poetry-prize\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:00:00","slug":"michael-waters-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/michael-waters-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"MICHAEL WATERS POETRY PRIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poetry prize named for poet Michael Waters, a professor in the Department of English, was announced in December by <em>Southern Indiana Review<\/em>\u00a0(SIR), a literary magazine published twice a year by the University of Southern Indiana with the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Guenette, a <em>SIR<\/em>\u00a0contributing editor, describes Waters as &#8220;among the finest poets of his generation, a writer I have long considered a poet&#8217;s poet, an innovative technician with an illuminating, wry, and ever-empathetic voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Michael Waters Poetry Prize, which will be awarded annually, will include $2,000 and publication by SIR Press for a full-length poetry manuscript written in English. Professor Waters will judge the entries, which can include up to 80 poems.<\/p>\n<p>Waters has written 10 books of poetry, including <em>Gospel Night<\/em> (2011); <em>Darling Vulgarity<\/em>, a finalist for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0Book Prize (2006); and <em>Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems<\/em>, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize (2001). His poems have appeared in various journals, including <em>The Yale Review<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>The Kenyon Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry<\/em>, <em>The Georgia Review<\/em>, and <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. Waters resides in Ocean, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MU English Professor Honored by Southern Indiana Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,188,191],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[110,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-32212263621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-excellence","category-great-location","category-personalized-education","mediacontact-petra-ludwig","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-english","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32212263621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802226596,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32212263621\/revisions\/40802226596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32212263621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32212263621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32212263621"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=32212263621"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=32212263621"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=32212263621"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=32212263621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}