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Winner of 2020 New American Poetry Prize: Janine Certo

May 25, 2020

Janine Certo

We’re pleased to announce that Corey Van Landingham selected ELIXIR by Janine Certo of East Lansing, Michigan, to receive the 2020 New American Poetry Prize! Janine is the author of the poetry collection In the Corner of the Living (Main Street Rag, 2017) and the non-fiction book Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and out of School (Routledge, 2018). She was awarded second prize in the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Janine will receive $1,200 and ELIXIR will be co-published by New American Press and Bordighera Press, who also selected ELIXIR to receive the 2020 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (release date forthcoming).

Finalists for the 2020 New American Poetry Prize include:

  • Bucolia, by Caroline Crew of Atlanta, GA
  • the blow and scatter and blow, by Jordan Durham of Columbia, MO
  • Spandrel: A Queer Ecopoetics, by Alec Herschman of Ann Arbor, MI
  • Terrain Emergent, by Veronica Kuhn of Los Angeles, CA
  • Boats in the Attic, by Alison Powell of Berkley, MI
  • Steady Girl, by Leona Sevick of Bridgewater, VA
  • Mercator, by Alpay Ulku of Antalya, Turkey
  • Curiosity, by Patrick Whitfill of Spartanburg, SC
  • catastrophiliac, r.i.p., by Caroline Young of Athens, GA

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