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Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Sarah Hill, “From An MRI Machine”

October 16, 2023October 1, 2022 by New England Poetry Club

Honorable Mention, Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Charles Coe

Categories 2022 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Dean Gessie, “eulogy for empire”

October 16, 2023October 1, 2022 by New England Poetry Club

Winner of the Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Charles Coe

Categories 2022 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Susan Sklan, “To My Most Beloved Child: Letters from the Warsaw Ghetto”

October 16, 2023December 11, 2021 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Lloyd Schwartz

Categories 2021 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Daisy Bassen, “Kintsukuroi”

October 16, 2023December 11, 2021 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Lloyd Schwartz

Categories 2021 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Denise Provost, “Threads of Distant Music: A Garland of Sonnets”

October 16, 2023December 11, 2021 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize selected by Lloyd Schwartz

Categories 2021 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Announcing the NEPC Contest Judges for 2021!

April 2, 2021April 1, 2021 by New England Poetry Club
Categories Contests, Contests Tags Amy Lowell Prize, C. Prudence Arceneaux, Der Hovanessian Prize, E.E. Cummings Prize, Heather Treseler, Jean Dany Joachim, Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, judges, Lloyd Schwartz, Samuel Washington Allen Prize, Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, Toni Bee

Moira Linehan,”Accounting”

October 17, 2023October 31, 2020 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Accounting             Beyond the Border Wall:             The Migrant Quilt Project, Tucson Sector             New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA Moira Linehan is … Read more

Categories 2020 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Jennifer L Freed, “Cerebral Hemorrhage”

October 17, 2023October 31, 2020 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Cerebral Hemorrhage 1.In the room with the drawn curtains, my mother wakesenough to ask what’s happened to her,but You hurt your headis … Read more

Categories 2020 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

David P. Miller, “Add One Father to Earth”

October 17, 2023January 2, 2020 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Robert Pinsky Add One Father to Earth I.   Shelved where his shoes had been,  his unrested ashes waited in a black … Read more

Categories 2019 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize

Dzvinia Orlowsky, “The (Dis)enchanted Desna”

October 17, 2023January 2, 2020 by New England Poetry Club

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Robert Pinsky The (Dis)enchanted Desna—after Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956)1  in a time of Putin 1. Desolate   He had no soul, only steam, no eyes, … Read more

Categories 2019 Contest Poems Tags Samuel Washington Allen Prize
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