MTVu Poetry Prize: the waiting game.
Here’s what it’s about. Basically, and simply, it’s an mtv sponsored new division of the National Poetry Series, which picks only from college (undergrad and grad) students. This, the inaugural year is judged by none other than Yusef Komunyakaa, who the winner will interview for MTVu in an episode of “My shot with” as well as having the book published by HarperCollins, and, yeah, I wouldn’t mind my first book being published by Harper-FREAKING-COLLINS. Not a bad place for a first book, if you ask me. So obviously, I’ve entered, and await my inevitable rejection, like so many others must be. I really just want to get this first book out of the way already, I’m pretty sure I’ve got it where I want it, the right poems in the right order, so I am trying to move onto the next collection, which is hard to do without a first published. Sooner or later. Hmph.
In other first book contest news, The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize looms on the horizon, however, end of April deadline, and that is another really sweet contest, very prestigious, and there’s a $5,000 grand prize, which sets it a little further apart.