The New Measure Poetry Prize

Parlor Press’s poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is also pleased to announce The New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Cole Swensen will select the winning manuscript. Other manuscripts not selected for the New Measure Poetry Prize may still be eligible for publication by Free Verse Editions. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked in April or May of 2009. The nonrefundable entry fee is $25.00. Please see www.parlorpress.com for full submission requirements.