Grayson Books Poetry Prize
Deadline: August 15, 2018
This is open to all poets writing in English. Electronic submissions only. Use Submittable to submit your 50-80 page manuscript electronically.
The winner will be awarded a $1,000 prize, publication, and 10 copies. The reading fee is $25.
Please do not put contact information on the manuscript.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if we are notified immediately about an acceptance elsewhere. Acknowledgments may be included with your submission, but are not required.
Patrick Donnelly is this year's judge. He is the author of four books of poetry and the director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.
Please enjoy this poem by Sharron Singleton from her 2017 winning manuscript, Our Hands a Hollow Bowl.
Dostoyevsky and the Buddha
The World Will Be Saved by Beauty
DostoyevskyI was born into the world…for the salvation of the world
BuddhaPerhaps we'll be saved
by the beauty
in what is lacking
as emptiness
makes of our hands
a hollow bowlor by the beauty
of the unsaid—
the note blown across
the mouth
of the empty bottleby what is reduced
and waiting—
broth boiled down
to its hoard of goldby all that is about
to be—and suspended from the tap,
the drop
that swells with light
before it falls.
