2013 Green Rose Prize

New Issues Poetry & Prose

January 2013 

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Dear Friends,    Ralph Angel has won the 2013 Green Rose Prize for his manuscript Your Moon. Angel wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2014.         Ralph Angel is the author of five books of poetry: Your Moon (forthcoming); Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award); Twice Removed; Neither World (James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets); and Anxious Latitudes; as well as a translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song. His poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association. Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles.   Also accepted for publication:       Gazelle in the House by Lisa Williams     Tree Line by Judy Halebsky   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 for the 2014 prize are available on our website.       Green Rose Prize in Poetry    2012: Jaswinder Bolina Phantom Camera  2011: Corey Marks The Radio Tree    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   Now available to order:  Motherlunge "Impressive...Scott, winner of the AWP Prize in the Novel, renders wonderfully offbeat characters in crisp, polished prose."    -Booklist (starred review) "Funny and smart...in Thea and those around her Scott has created characters we believe in and wish well, characters who feel real -strange and sad and happy, like real people are."   -Publishers Weekly (starred review, "Pick of the Week")      Our titles are available online through Amazon.com and spdbooks.org.