<p>Winner of the inaugural Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. First in a series designed specifically for poets who have never published a full collection.</p>

Leaving Iowa

Meyerhofer, Michael

Briery Creek Press

Winner of the 2009 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry, Garrett J. Brown's first collection, Manna Sifting, acheives the poetic excellence and heart sought at the inception of the Prize. The Prize was established to recognize and honor Liam Rector, a man who dedicated his professional life to the success of American Letters. Having served as Executive Director of AWP, the Academy of American Poets, and founder and director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, among numerous other positions, Liam, through both his own poetry and his role as arts advocate, served the American arts community tirelessly, facilitating opportunity and creating standards for countless emerging writers. This contest, we hope, serves as a modicum of appreciation for that work, while also continuing his legacy of creating opportunities for writers.

Manna Sifting

Garrett J. Brown

The Dos Passos Review (5.2)

VARIOUS

"This poet has a mature voice, at once historical, compassionate, tender, and visionary. These are authentic American poems that ache lovingly across several generations."  - Adrian Louis, 2011 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry, author of Shedding Skins, Logorrhea, and Archeology  "These candid, sensitive, affecting poems follow, like gravity's rainbow, the arc of a long life, one that becomes a lived microcosm of the American history in those years. With a fine ear for the music that releases felt meaning in language, an attentive eye for the resonant detail, Greg McBride's poems, like the laps swum in the poem of that name, take us with him 'here to elsewhere, / content in going, then coming, / the well-shaped strokes, the honest work . . . .'" -Eleanor Wilner, author of Tourist in Hell, The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, and Otherwise  "When so many poets elevate mood over matter and allow consciousness to filter out the world, it is a surprise and a pleasure to read a book open to the full range of human experience--historical and familial, fleeting and abiding, from the horrors and banalities of war to the strains and satisfactions of domestic life..." - John Koethe, author of Falling Water, Domes, and North Point North: New and Selected

Porthole

Greg McBride

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Leaving Iowa

Manna Sifting

The Dos Passos Review (5.2)

Porthole