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Marisa Crawford, from Reversible

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SPD Recommends Reversible by Marisa Crawford (Switchback Books).

"Rarely am I so submerged in the details of a poet's mind and world as I am with Marisa Crawford's work. It's bright and glitter roll-on scented, with a pitch-perfect 90s soundtrack. It's nostalgic, dark, surprising yet warmly familiar. I mourn for the girlhood of this book. In REVERSIBLE, Crawford has created an incredibly moving and vivid archive of growing up—part monologue, part lyric, part ethnography—distinct, striking, tender, and enchanting."—Morgan Parker

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POETS YOU SHOULD BE READING: MORGAN PARKER

Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books, 2015) and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House Books, 2017). She is a Cave Canem gra…

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Morgan Parker, from “Everything Is Bothering Me” (Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night)

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The Gatewood Prize

You are going to want to do this. You are going to want to win. 

The Gatewood Prize

The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48–80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

2013 Judge: Eileen Myles

Reading Period: March 1–June 1, 2013

Eileen Myles was born in Boston (1949) and moved to New York in 1974 to be a poet.Snowflake/different streets (poems, 2012) is the latest of her 18 books. Inferno (a poet's novel)came out in 2010. For The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art she received a Warhol Creative Capital grant. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She's a 2012 Guggenheim fellow. She lives in New York.

For more information visit:

http://www.switchbackbooks.com/contest.html

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