Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading
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Contact: 202.544.7077
The Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht, is awarded annually by The Waywiser Press for a poetry collection by a poet who has published no more than one previous book of verse. It includes publication with a $3,000 prize.
Co-sponsored with The Waywiser Press
Celebrated British poet Anthony Thwaite has worked as a broadcaster, critic, editor, and academic. His poetry collections include Home Truths, The Owl in the Tree, The Stones of Emptiness: Poems 1963-66, New Confessions, and Collected Poems (2007). Thwaite was literary editor of the New Statesman and is the major editor of the work of Philip Larkin. He was awarded the OBE in 1992.
Jaimee Hills is the 2014 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize winner. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Confrontation Magazine, and Best New Poets, 2006.
Introduced by Joseph Harrison, poet and Senior American Editor of The Waywiser Press
Price: $15.00
Time: 7:30pm
Folger Shakespeare Theatre
201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC, Washington DC, 20003-1004, US
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