Blog - newsBloghttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012-02-23T23:14:54ZSquarespaceDeadline for The Kundiman Poetry Prize--March 1sthttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012/2/21/deadline-for-the-kundiman-poetry-prize-march-1st.htmlOliver2012-02-22T01:19:05Z2012-02-22T01:19:05Z 

 

Now accepting submissions
Deadline:  March 1, 2012 

 

The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets.  
Winner receives $1,000, book publication with Alice James Books and a New York City feature reading.

Alice James Books is a cooperative poetry press with a mission is to seek out and publish the best contemporary poetry by both established and beginning poets, with particular emphasis on involving poets in the publishing process.

First Readers:  Jenny Boully and Lee Herrick

 

Eligibility
  • Asian American writers living in the United States.

 

General Guidelines
  • Manuscripts must be typed, paginated, and 50 – 70 pages in length (single spaced).
  • Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks of less than 25 pages, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and self-published books are not eligible. No multi-authored collections, please.
  • Manuscripts must have a table of contents and include a list of acknowledgments for poems previously published. The inclusion of a biographical note is optional. Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number should appear on the title page of your manuscript. 
  • No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.
  • The Kundiman Poetry Prize is judged by consensus of the members of Kundiman's Artistic Staff and the Alice James Books Editorial Board. Manuscripts are not read anonymously. Learn more about our judging process.
  • Winners will be announced in June.

Guidelines for Electronic Manuscript Submission

You may submit your manuscript to The Kundiman Prize electronically by accessing our online submission manager here.  Entry fee is $28.


Guidelines for Print Manuscript Submission

Should you wish to submit your manuscript via postal mail, mail your entry to:

Kundiman
P.O. Box 4248
Sunnyside, NY 11104

Send one copy of your manuscript submission with two copies of the title page. Use only binder clips. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies.

MANUSCRIPTS CANNOT BE RETURNED. Please do not send us your only copy.
Entry fee is $28.  Checks or money orders should be made out to Alice James Books. On the memo line of your check, write The Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Checklist for print manuscript entry:
  • One (1) copy of manuscript enclosed, with acknowledgements and two (2) copies of title page
  • $28 entry fee
  • Business sized SASE
  • Stamped addressed postcard
  • Postmarked by March 1, 2012

 

Prize Events

For information on Prize Events, click here.

 

Previous Winners

2011

Mezzanines by Matthew Olzmann

Matthew Olzmann is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Inch, Gulf Coast, Rattle and elsewhere.  He’s received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kresge Arts Foundation.  Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Litereary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist.

2010

Pier by Janine Oshiro

Janine Oshiro holds degrees from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University), Portland State University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon’s Literary Arts. She lives in Hawaii and teaches at Windward Community College 

Praise for Pier

"As if through an echolocation of brilliant and insistent off-rhyme, these poems effect a delicate placement of self into body, body into world, world into word. And at the center of it all is even more delicate loss.  Oshiro's Pier takes its measure in precise instances that ache with intelligence. A truly masterful first book."  —Cole Swensen

]]>A Face to Meet the Faces Websitehttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012/2/9/a-face-to-meet-the-faces-website.htmlOliver2012-02-09T21:37:40Z2012-02-09T21:37:40ZI've been working on the anthology's website. Here's the URL:

http://facesanthology.com/

 

Look there for updates about readings as well as contributor profiles in the upcoming days.

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Stacey kept texting me yesterday with updates. She was tracking the package from the University of Akron. When I got home after picking up the kids from daycare, I saw the box outside our front door. Yay!


Stacey and I tried to open the boxes simultaneously via Skype, but I couldn't get the damn thing to work due to my poor ISP. Anyway, I snapped a couple of photos today.

 

]]>Apply to Western Washington University's MA Program in Creative Writinghttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012/1/26/apply-to-western-washington-universitys-ma-program-in-creati.htmlOliver2012-01-26T23:47:27Z2012-01-26T23:47:27ZDeadline is February 15th. Here is some info about WWU's Grad Program: http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/gradschool/programs/program_details.asp?Program=1007

]]>Updates to the websitehttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012/1/26/updates-to-the-website.htmlOliver2012-01-26T21:51:55Z2012-01-26T21:51:55ZJust doing a little housecleaning. I added links to A Face to Meet the Faces throughout the website. My updated readings calander is forthcoming!

 

 

]]>Today's Poem A Day Poemhttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2012/1/11/todays-poem-a-day-poem.htmlOliver2012-01-11T20:33:16Z2012-01-11T20:33:16ZI'm honored to have "Dear Empire [these are your temples] represented in the Academy of American Poet's Poem-A-Day series.

 

Check it out! http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22735

]]>Get your donation in before December 31st!http://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2011/12/29/get-your-donation-in-before-december-31st.htmlOliver2011-12-29T23:39:49Z2011-12-29T23:39:49ZDonate to Kundiman! Click here:  Kundiman is a 501c organization.

]]>Two Prose Poems in The Kartika Reviewhttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2011/12/28/two-prose-poems-in-the-kartika-review.htmlOliver2011-12-28T18:04:05Z2011-12-28T18:04:05ZThe new issue of The Kartika Review is up. Lots of Fil-Am writers in this issue, including Donna Miscolta and Lysley Tenorio. Two of my prose poems appear in the issue:  http://www.kartikareview.com/issue11/11delapaz.htm

]]>A Face to Meet the Faces--Cover Arthttp://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2011/12/16/a-face-to-meet-the-faces-cover-art.htmlOliver2011-12-16T18:22:50Z2011-12-16T18:22:50ZTwo versions of the same cover.

Version #1

Version #2

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The difference is subtle. I won't tell you what the difference is, but it's easy enough to figure out.

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Again, the anthology is due out in February. We're in the midst of final copy-edits.

 

]]>Guest Poet on the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Blog, etc.http://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2011/11/11/guest-poet-on-the-geraldine-r-dodge-poetry-blog-etc.htmlOliver2011-11-11T23:59:19Z2011-11-11T23:59:19ZI've got a little blog post about my experience at last year's Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. It was the first time that I had ever been to the festival, and I loved every minute of it. Only thing was I developed laryngitis. Anyway, you should read all about it here: CLICKY!

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Taking my customary weekend break from writing. 68 poems into the "Labyrinth" project and I think I'm waning a bit, so I may try to revisit a different project.

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It's definitely winter up in the Pacific NW. Gray, overcast, dark, rainy. Perfect reading and writing weather. Right now, I'm sitting in my office on campus watching undergrads run through wet piles of leaves on the Old Main lawn.

Knuckleheads.  ;-)

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Current Spin:

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