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Erika Meitner, this year\u2019s judge, has chosen If I Could Give You a Line<\/em> by Carrie Oeding<\/strong> of Pawtucket, Rhode Island as the 2021 Akron Poetry Prize winner<\/strong>. The contest received a total of 690 entries in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the winning manuscript, Meitner comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I Could Give You a Line<\/em> is not only a brilliant, associative meditation on every kind of conceptual and material line\u2014it\u2019s also a powerful ontological and epistemological treatise on what it means to be an artist and a mother in twenty-first century America. Via ekphrasis, ars poetica, and lyric essay, Carrie Oeding brings the world into these poems with grace and wit; Kim Kardashian and Kiefer Sutherland live alongside Susan Sontag and James Turrell, all coexisting with the detritus of motherhood: wet wipes, strollers, Band-aids, Purell\u2014creating poems that are simultaneously heady and corporeal. With humor, doubt, intelligence, cynicism, and ultimately strength, Oeding fiercely asserts her presence in these poems, pushing against a society that sees mothers as erasures or containers when she writes, \u201cI am painting myself in. I am so not pretend\u2026.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrie Oeding<\/strong> is the author of Our List of Solutions<\/em> (42 Miles Press), which won the Lester M. Wolfson Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts\u2019 Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has appeared in such places as Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Pleiades, Mid-American Review,<\/em> and DIAGRAM.<\/em> She grew up on a southern Minnesota farm and currently lives in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge for the 2022 competition will be Adrian Matejka. <\/strong>Matejka is the author of six books, most recently a mixed media collection inspired by Funkadelic, Standing on the Verge & Maggot Brain<\/em> (Third Man Books, 2021), and a collection of poems Somebody Else Sold the World<\/em> (Penguin, 2021). His book The Big Smoke <\/em>(Penguin, 2013), was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Among Matejka\u2019s other honors are fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Simon Fellowship from United States Artists. He is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University Bloomington and was Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018-19.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Akron Poetry Prize competition guidelines may be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021 Akron Poetry Prize finalists and semifinalists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Numerous finalist and semifinalist manuscripts were withdrawn during the contest deliberations and are therefore not listed below. Congratulations to those authors who had collections accepted elsewhere, and much gratitude to all who sent work to this year\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Birthday of the Dead<\/em>, Rachel Abramowitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close Red Water<\/em>, Emma Aylor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muzzle<\/em>, Brian Clifton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magician<\/em>, Jose Hernandez Diaz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sex Depression Animals<\/em>, Mag Gabbert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beehive State<\/em>, Christian Gullette<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Worry Dimension<\/em>, Brett Hanley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Softly Undercover<\/em>, Hanae Jonas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

earthwork<\/em>, Jill Khoury<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carson<\/em>, Molly Kugel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reel<\/em>, Colleen O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabulosa<\/em>, Karen Rigby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Outsiders<\/em>, Jenny Sadre-Orafai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dutch Landscapes of the American Great Lakes<\/em>, Max Schleicher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Real Man Would Have a Gun<\/em>, Stacey Waite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the arms we grew up in<\/em>, Sam Herschel Wein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Semifinalists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monster Movie<\/em>, Laura Bandy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The People We Love Are Disappearing Around Us<\/em>, Erica Bernheim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worn Smooth Between Devourings<\/em>, Lauren Camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D F E A R John Ashbery<\/em>, Dante Di Stefano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crows & Swallows<\/em>, Fay Dillof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Away Message<\/em>, Lizzie Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girls\u2019 Book of Knots<\/em>, K.D. Harryman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Spare People<\/em>, Erin Hoover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Animal in the Room<\/em>, Meghan Kemp-Gee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the Tented Skin<\/em>, C. Kubasta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilderness<\/em>, Quinn Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Always<\/em>, Robin Reagler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shed Boat Shed<\/em>, Andrea Read<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lexicographer\u2019s Garden<\/em>, Phoebe Reeves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mimicries<\/em>, R. Stempel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter Here<\/em>, Jessica Tanck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Library At the End of the World<\/em>, Julia Thacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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