Jennifer Kronovet Is Awarded The 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

Rochester, NY — Jennifer Kronovet is the 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry
Prize winner for her first collection of poems, Awayward. Jean
Valentine selected this manuscript from 17 semi-finalists and will
write a Foreword to the published collection. Kronovet will receive a
$1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in
March, 2009, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series.

An annual competition, the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is open to
poets who have yet to publish a full-length- book collection of
poetry. This year’s finalists were XING by Debora Kuan; Good Question
by Sally Fisher; and Point Everywhere by Patrick Culliton. Jennifer
Kronovet’s winning manuscript was chosen from a field of 908 entries.
Jean Valentine says, “Jennifer Kronovet’s poems in Awayward are so
surprising and compelling and beautiful, so intelligent and felt.
Kronovet uses simple words and works at a mysterious depth, one we can
enter with gladness.”

BOA Editions will be accepting manuscripts for the eighth annual A.
Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize between August 1, 2008 and November 30,
2008. An entry form and fee are required. The guidelines for the
2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize will be announced on
www.boaeditions. org later this year.

Jennifer Kronovet’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The
Colorado Review, Crowd, Harp & Altar, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry
Northwest, A Public Space, and other journals. She is the co-founder
and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, a journal of poetry in translation.
She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in
St. Louis, an MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University
Teachers College, and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.
Jennifer wrote many of the poems in Awayward while living in Beijing,
China. She now resides in her native New York City.

Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe
College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the
Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965.
Her most recent book is Little Boat (Wesleyan University Press,
2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and
Collected Poems 1965 – 2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book
Award for Poetry.

BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester-based Pulitzer-Prize- and National-
Book-Award-winning publishing house, received a 2001 New York State
Governor’s Arts Award for overall artistic excellence. Now in its
32nd year, BOA has published more than 190 books of American poetry,
poetry in translation, and fiction.

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