2009/2010 Flatmancrooked Poetry Prize
Guest Judge: Mary Karr
HarperCollins recently released Mary Karr’s new memoir, Lit, a follow-up to her New York Times bestselling non-fiction sensation, The Liar’s Club (which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for nonfiction, the Texas Institute Award for Letters, and was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards).
Karr is, perhaps more importantly, an award-winning poet. Her poetry grants include The Whiting Writer’s Award, an NEA, a Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and a Guggenheim. She has won prizes from Best American Poetry as well as Pushcarts for both her poetry and essays. Her four volumes of poetry are Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006), Viper Rum (Penguin, 1998), The Devil’s Tour (New Directions, 1993), and Abacus (Wesleyan, 1986). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and Parnassus.
Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and was the weekly poetry editor for the Washington Post Book World’s “Poet’s Choice” column, a position canonized by Robert Hass, Ed Hirsch, and Rita Dove. She lives in Syracuse, New York and New York City.
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