Michael Waters Poetry Prize

2013 Prize

Southern Indiana Review is pleased to announce the creation of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize. A prize of $2,000 and publication by SIR Press will be awarded annually for a collection of poetry written in English. Michael Waters will judge. Submit up to 80 pages (no more than one poem per page) with a $20 entry fee ($5 for each additional entry) by February 1, 2013. Click here for complete guidelines.

Michael Waters has written ten books of poetry, including Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2006); and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize (2001). His poems have appeared in various journals, including The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Rolling Stone. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation and fellowship residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland), and The St. James Centre for Creativity (Malta). He is professor of English at Monmouth University and also teaches in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Waters lives with his wife, poet Mihaela Moscaliuc, in Ocean, New Jersey.

SIR Press Editors

Marcus Wicker is the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial), selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University. Wicker’s awards include a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and The Fine Arts Work Center. A 2012 Image Award Nominee and Poets & Writers Debut Poet, Wicker’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Third Coast, and Ninth Letter, among other magazines. Marcus is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.

Formerly muscle for the IRS, Ron Mitchell is the editor of Southern Indiana Review and founder and former editor of RopeWalk Press. He teaches creative writing and literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.