Congratulations to Rebekah Stout, winner of the Poetry International Prize 2009!

Stout's poems 'Midas' and 'In the Garden' will appear in Poetry International 17. Sandra Alcosser judged. Kudos to finalists Melissa Stein, Ann Struthers, Noreen Ayres, Sierra Nelson, and Michael Lee Phillips.

Poetry International is now accepting submissions for our 2010 contest.

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Poetry International is given annually for a single poem. B.H. Boston will judge.

Submit up to three poems with a $10 entry fee (entrants may submit additional poems for a charge of $3 per poem.) Deadline is April 23rd. The winner will be announced on our website in the fall of 2010.

Guidelines

• Provide your contact information & titles of all poems submitted, on the title page.
  
  
• Author name and information should appear only on the title page.
  
  
• No handwritten entries, please.
  
  
• Please make your entry easy to read--no illustrations, fancy fonts or decorative borders.
  
  
• Simultaneous Submission Allowed: You may submit your poems simultaneously.  Please contact us if we need to withdraw your poem(s) because they have been accepted elsewhere.
  
  
• Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.

A Note to Previous Poetry International Prize Contestants

You are welcome to enter this year's contest, whether or not you won a prize in the previous year.      

Information about the winner of the 2008 award:

Winner of Poetry International Prize for 2008 is Sasha Parmasad for her poem, Memory of Sugarcane-worker Off Duty. Ms. Parmasad has received the prize of $1000, and her poem will appear in the next issue of Poetry International.