Robert Cording: Finalist for the 2012 Poets’ Prize

The Poets’ Prize of $3,000 honors a book of poems published two years prior to the award year.  The annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who also serve as judges.

Winner of the 2012 Poets’ Prize:

NED BALBO
The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems
Story Line Press (2010)

AND FINALISTS:
ROBERT CORDING, Walking with Ruskin, CavanKerry Press
MAURYA SIMON, The Raindrop’s Gospel:
The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula, Elixir Press

The prize was presented on
Thursday, May 17 at Nicholas Roerich Museum
(319 West 107th Street, New York, NY)

Funding for the Poets’ Prize is administered by the West Chester University
Poetry Center and is contributed by the members of the Poets’ Prize Committee:

Dick Allen
Colette Inez
David Mason
Lynn Emanuel
Major Jackson
Linda Pastan
Claudia Emerson
Allison Joseph
Robert Phillips
B. H. Fairchild
Julie Kane Marie Ponsot
Richard Foerster
Margaret Lally
Timothy Steele
R. S. Gwynn, Chair
Peter Makuck
Leon Stokesbury
Andrew Hudgins
Charles Martin

“We believe there is no greater honor than to be awarded a prize by a jury of one’s peers.”