Indiana Review's 2007 Poetry Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication

Final Judge: Joy Harjo

POSTMARK DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2007
Reading Fee: $15
Includes a one-year subscription

All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send only three poems per entry.

Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. Simultaneous submissions okay, but fee is non-refundable if accepted elsewhere. Multiple entries okay, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry.

Further, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or former student of the prize judge. We also will not consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of the judge.

Cover letter must include name, address, phone number, and titles. Entrant’s name should appear ONLY in the cover letter. If desired, include self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Make checks payable to Indiana Review.

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Joy Harjo is a multi-talented artist of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician. She has published seven books of acclaimed poetry. They include: She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and her most recent How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton. Among her numerous poetry awards included are the Oklahoma Book Awards, 2003, the 1997 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She co-edited an anthology of contemporary Native women's writing: Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Native Women's Writing of North America. She has served on the National Council on the Arts. She is the Joseph M. Russo Professor of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, and when not teaching and performing she lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she is a member of the Hui Nalu Canoe Club. Forthcoming is a book of stories from W.W. Norton.

http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prizes/poetprizeguidelines07.htm