2008 Green Rose Prize Winner (and champion) Patty Seyburn! And the crowd goes wild!
A big congrats out to the wonderful Patty Seyburn for winning the 2008 Green Rose Prize issued by New Issues for a poetry manuscript by an established poet (with her book Hilarity). They should’ve picked my manuscript for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize (for 1st book) and given Cal State Long Beach a 1-2 punch. But alas, Justin Marks’s A Million in Prizes won. Maybe California State University in Long Beach (like how I used the full name? Yeahhhhh) will get a little boost in interest because of this, as Patty teaches there with many other wonderful poets like Bill Mohr, Charles Harper Webb, Elliot Fried and Gerald Locklin.
Patty is also an editor at the always fabulous POOL: A Journal of Poetry, and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. One of the best around.
OK, that’s enough butt kissing, sorry. Couldn’t help it, it’s very exciting for someone you know to win a contest.