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2009 Bellday Prize Award Winner "Robbins can spin a hitherto-undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in the radiant, mortal, given world."   – Linda Gregerson, Final Judge   More on Radioactive City author, Richard Robbins   Excerpts from Radioactive City   Richard Robbins reads poems from Radioactive City _____________________ Marc Jampole's Music From Words More on Music from Words More on Music from Words author, Marc Jampole Excerpts from Music from Words Link to Interview of Marc Jampole by Cervena Barva Press Marc Jampole reads at the main branch of the Carnegie Library Marc Jampole reads at the historic Parker House Marc Jampole Reads Poems from Music from Words "If you like well-written poetry and enjoy an intellectual challenge, I highly recommend Music from Words. You won't be disappointed."   – Adrienne Muncy, BookReview.com "Marc Jampole's Music from Words is a good read for adults who want to put their thinking caps on."   – Pam Rosenblatt, Wilderness House Literary Review "Jampole is absolutely unique in the way he expresses his material, especially with regard to sound, meter and rhythm." – Michael Wurster, Small Press Review "This book is amazing." – Gloria Mindock, editor, Cervena Barva Press _____________________ Shelby Stephenson's Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl An intense and heart-breaking poetic narrative which, in its exploration of historical and personal materials, holds affinities to the work of Susan Howe and to James Agee’s classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Family Matters is a strenuous questioning — and exposure — of the fictions of ownership, whether of persons or places, graves or farms. - Allen Grossman, final judge, 2008 Bellday Prize competition.   More on Family Matters author Shelby Stephenson   Excerpts from Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl   Shelby Stephenson Reads Poems from Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl     _____________________ Bellday Poetry Prize Details

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