philip booth poetry prize
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s guest judge, Matt Rasmussen, has chosen “Nepenthes Terrarium” by Rebecca Hawkes as the winner of the 2021 Philip Booth Poetry Prize. Rebecca receives $500 and publication in Salt Hill’s 46th issue, due out late summer.
Read more about the process, our winner and our finalists here. For previous years’ results, click here.
Guidelines:
Up to three poems / pdf or doc / 12 pt font / any length / any style.
Winner receives $500 and publication in Salt Hill Issue 46 (due out in July/August 2021).
Your name or other identifying information should not appear anywhere on your submitted work.
Poems must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as long as you notify us immediately of a poem’s acceptance elsewhere. Reading fees ($10 paid through Submittable) will not be refunded for withdrawn entries.
All poems will be considered for general publication, unless the entrant requests otherwise.
Family, colleagues, current and former students of the last two years of the guest judge are ineligible to submit, as are recent graduates (within the past three years) of, and those affiliated with, the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.
2021 Guest Judge: Matt Rasmussen
Matt Rasmussen’s Black Aperture, won the 2012 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. He’s been the awarded the Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize, as well as grants and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Corporation of Yaddo, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, and the McKnight Foundation. Rasmussen is also a co-founder of the independent poetry press Birds, LLC. He teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College and lives in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.