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| Winner: Corey Marks |
The Editors of New Issues Poetry and Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize: Corey Marks for his manuscript
The Radio Tree. Corey wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2012.
Corey Marks’
Renunciation was a National Poetry Series selection published by the University of Illinois Press. His poems have appeared in
New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and in the anthology,
Legitimate Dangers. He’s received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from
The Paris Review. He holds a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from University of Houston and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson. An associate professor and director of creative writing at University of North Texas, he lives in Denton with his wife, Amy, and their daughter, Madeleine.
Also accepted for publication:
The Frame Called Ruin by
Hadara Bar-Nadav
to appear in the fall of 2012
The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. Guidelines are available on our website.
The Green Rose Prize in Poetry
2010: Seth Abramson
Northerners
2009: Malinda Markham
Having Cut the Sparrow’s Heart
2008: Patty Seyburn
Hilarity
2007: Jon Pineda
The Translator’s Diary
2006: Noah Eli Gordon
A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow
2005: Joan Houlihan
The Mending Worm
2004: Hugh Seidman
Somebody Stand Up and Sing
2003: Christine Hume
Alaskaphrenia
Gretchen Mattox
Buddha Box
2002: Christopher Bursk
Ovid at Fifteen
2001: Ruth Ellen Kocher
When the Moon Knows You're Wandering
2000: Martha Rhodes
Perfect Disappearance
