“Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest: The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes
Now in its 33rd year, the “Discovery"/The Nation contest, co-sponsored by The 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and The Nation magazine, is designed to attract large audiences to poets who have not yet published a book of poems. Each of the four winners will be awarded $500, a reading at the Poetry Center on Monday, May 7, 2007, and publication in The Nation. Among the notable writers who were “Discovery” winners early in their careers are Mary Jo Bang, Nick Flynn, Debora Greger, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Sherod Santos, Arthur Smith, Gary Soto, David St. John, Yerra Sugarman, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Rosanna Warren
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