Deadline
August 31st, 2009
Prizes
$600 in cash prizes: 1st place poem, $300; 2nd place poem, $200; 3rd place poem, $100.
Publication in our October issue for all three winning poems.
Eligibility
Anyone is eligible to submit to this contest, regardless of age, citizenship, or publishing experience—with the exception of current or former staff members or guest judges.
SUZANNE LUMMIS
This year's finalist judge is Suzanne Lummis, founder and director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and editor of Speechless the Magazine. Her poems appear in the anthologies California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday Books), Poems of the American West (Knopf), Poetry Daily (Sourcebooks), Place as Purpose: Poetry of the Western States (Autry/Sun & Moon), Stand Up Poetry and in major literary publications in the US and UK. She has recent or forthcoming poems in Poetry International, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Pool. Her last collection, In Danger, was part of The California Poetry Series (Heyday Books/Roundhouse Press). She teaches several levels of poetry through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program including a course she developed "Poetry and the Movies: The Poem Noir." In 2006 she taught "L.A. Stories," fiction and film, at Emerson College in Burbank.
The deadline for Perigee's 2009 Poetry Contest has passed. The editors and finalist judge are reading through the submissions, and participants will be notified of the results by October 15th.