Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming on The Slowdown podcast and in The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry 2023. Fuhrman's next book Data Mind, a collection of prose poems about the internet, is forthcoming from Curbstone/ Northwestern University Press in 2024. Fuhrman, an assistant teaching professor in creative writing at Rutgers University, is the author of six books of poetry, most recently To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press, 2021). The 2023 final judge will be Joanna Fuhrman. The preliminary judge will narrow the entries down to a few dozen for the final judge, who will choose the winner and three runners-up from the pool of finalists. Two judges will blindly select the winner. There is no charge to enter the contest, but there is a limit of one entry per person. The poems and entry form must be submitted online. All work must be original, published or unpublished, typewritten or word-processed, one poem per page, in black ink. The entry requires 10 poems, any style, form, or length. The winner receives a $500 honorarium, a proclamation from the Bucks County Commissioners, and will be featured at a Fall reading and reception at Bucks County Community College with the previous year’s poet laureate, Tom Mallouk. Entries must be submitted online by Friday, September 8, 2023. The contest is open to Bucks County residents over the age of 18 who have not previously served as poet laureate, said Rackin, who teaches language and literature at BCCC, where the program is based.Įach entrant must submit 10 original poems of any style or length along with an entry form to the college’s Language and Literature Department. BCCC Launches 47th Bucks County Poet Laureate Competition The search is on for the 47th annual Bucks County Poet Laureate, according to Bucks County Community College (BCCC) Professor Ethel Rackin, Ph.D., director of the longest-running poet laureate program in Pennsylvania.
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