Media, Culture and Arts Department Sponsors Seaborn Jones Poetry Prize
Author: News Bureau
Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 5:02 PM
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College of Arts and Sciences | Pressroom
Macon, GA
The prize is named for the poet Seaborn Jones, who was born in Macon in 1942. He worked for Fred Rogers on the set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. At the Museum of Arts and Sciences, he was poet-in-resident and curator of live collections. A member of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s, he has published poems in New York Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and the Louisiana Review. He has written numerous books, including Drowning from the Inside Out (1981), Lost Keys (1996), and Going Farther into the Woods Than the Woods Go (2011), winner of the first Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry from Mercer University Press. In 1991 he was chosen as the Alan Collins Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in 1988, and has been the recipient of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, he died in October 2014.
In addition to the $100 prize, the winner will get the opportunity to read his or her poem at a memorial that will take place for Jones this fall.
For information, call (478) 471-5766.
Here are the rules and guidelines:
Deadline: Friday, September 4, 2015.
Eligibility: Any college student with a permanent address in Macon.
Prize: $100 and invitation to read poem.
1) Submit up to three poems written in English, typed, single-spaced, and titled.
2) Do not put your name on the poem.
3) No translations; no co-authored poems.
4) One poem per page.
5) Use a student email address to submit the poems (required).
6) Send one email to kevin.cantwell@mga.edu.
7) In the email, enclose your full name (no aliases); your permanent home address; the college or university you attend; and a cell number.
8) Include the title of each poem in the body of the email.
9) Send poems as separate email attachments (but not separate emails) in .doc, .docx, or .rtf files.
10) If your attachments cannot be opened, your submission will be discarded.
11) You may not hand-deliver or mail submissions.
12) The deadline is Friday, September 4, 2015, by midnight.
13) Any style or subject matter is acceptable.
14) The judge will be identified when the winner is announced.
15) The decision of the judge is final.
16) There will be a first prize and runner up. There is no monetary prize for runner up.
17) The winning poet will be invited to read the poem at a memorial reading for Seaborn Jones on October 2, 2015, at the Golden Bough Bookstore.
18) Failure to follow the above instructions will disqualify any submission, including a prize winner if any of the required information cannot be verified or is incorrect.
19) Authors retain copyright to poems, although Middle Georgia State has the right to print or reprint the winning poem on the web or in print; in such cases, the author will be credited.
20) The winning poem may already be submitted to a literary magazine or to another competition and may be submitted for publication afterward without the permission of Middle Georgia State.