Dogfish Head Poetry Prize to be presented Dec. 10
The Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for 2016 will be presented at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Dogfish Inn in Lewes. Amanda Newell and Carol Frost will be reading at the event.
A professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., Frost was one of three final judges for the poetry contest along with Baron Wormser of Vermont and Jan Beatty of Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and four Pushcart Prizes. She also received the Gold Medal in Poetry from Florida Book Awards for her book "Honeycomb: Poems" (Northwestern University Press, 2010). She is the author of 12 books of poetry, the latest being "Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences" (Tupelo Press, 2014).
Newell teaches English at the Gunston Day School in Centreville, Md., and has been a visiting lecturer at University of Paris, Creteil, France. She was a 2010 contributor at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. Newell was the 2010 winner of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize and the 2015 winner of the Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pa. She is currently pursuing her master of fine arts at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, N.C.
The Dogfish Head Poetry Prize is in its 14th year and is sponsored by Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head. The contest is open to poets in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. Publication of the winning manuscript by Broadkill River Press is supported by Dennis Forney of The Cape Gazette.
The winner's name is kept secret until the presentation party. The event is open to the public, but space is limited, so attendees are asked to RSVP to Linda Blaskey at linblask@aol.com.
