Jean Corrie Poetry Contest for Students

TO:  ALL FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS, SOPHMORES, AND JUNIORS

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENTS

You are invited to compete for the 2021 Jean Corrie Poetry Competition Prize (open to first-year students, sophomores, and juniors).

A maximum of three poems may be submitted, each printed on a separate sheet of paper. All poems submitted must be original and unpublished in campus publications or elsewhere, including on blogs and anywhere else on the Internet.  The poems must be labeled with the name of the prize “Jean Corrie” for which you are eligible.  The writer’s name, class year, email address, and phone number must appear in the body of the email but not on the poems themselves.

 All entries must be submitted to Ms. Maureen Mulrooney, administrative assistant, Department of English, mulroonm@lafayette.edu, no later than noon on Friday, February 19.

 The Jean Corrie Prize ($100 by deed of gift) is sponsored by both the Lafayette College Department of English and the Academy of American Poets.  

 Entries are judged by award-winning poets.  The judge of the 2021 Jean Corrie Competition in Poetry will be Edgar Kunz.  Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. Originally from New England, Edgar lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the low-residency Newport MFA. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is working on a book of poems about love and late capitalism.

 If you have any questions, please contact Professor Megan Fernandes  at fernanmk@lafayette.edu.