{"id":282966,"date":"2011-03-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/03\/30\/montreal-international-poetry-prize-big-money\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:28:13","slug":"montreal-international-poetry-prize-big-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/03\/30\/montreal-international-poetry-prize-big-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal International Poetry Prize [BIG MONEY!!]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/books\/in-other-words\/new-50000-montreal-international-poetry-prize-launched\/article1959842\/\"><em>Globe &amp; Mail<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Literary Montreal is the source of an audacious new literary prize announced late last week: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealprize.com\">Montreal International Poetry Prize,<\/a> which will award $50,000 for a single poem of up to 40 lines written in English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Billing itself the \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Poetry Competition,\u201d the prize is \u201cdesigned to bring more attention to poetry and to encourage people from all over the world to enter their poems,&#8221; according to a press release.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is innovative about the prize is its encouragement of poems using \u201cany English dialect\u201d and its openness to poets from all over the world, whether previously published or not. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An editorial board of distinguished poets includes Montreal\u2019s Stephanie Bolster and Michael Harris, former Montrealer Eric Ormsby, Australian John Kinsella, Jamaican-born Valerie Bloom, Malawian Frank M. Chipasula, as well as the Nigerian Odia Ofeimun, Mumbai poet Anand Thakore, Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey from Belfast and London-born Fred D\u2019Aguiar, who grew up in Guyana of Guyanese parents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The early entry deadline for the competition is April 22, with a final deadline of July 8, 2011. The editorial board will choose the top 50 out of the poems submitted, and these will be published in print and in e-formats by Montreal\u2019s V\u00e9hicule Press in fall 2011. The winner of the inaugural prize, chosen by 2011 judge Andrew Motion, will be announced in December.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck to all our poetry friends . . . I&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;ll all apply, since it probably (unfortunately) takes three decades of poetmaking to earn $50K in royalties . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/19-maier\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/459.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe &amp; Mail: Literary Montreal is the source of an audacious new literary prize announced late last week: the Montreal International Poetry Prize, which will award $50,000 for a single poem of up to 40 lines written in English. Billing itself the \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Poetry Competition,\u201d the prize is \u201cdesigned to bring more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[19786,36216,39256],"class_list":["post-282966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-international-poetry","tag-montreal-international-poetry-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282966\/revisions\/345646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}