Clockwise from top left: Levine, Mills, Hyland, Webb, Kennedy-Nolle, Lubarsky
The Winner & Finalists Reading and Book Launch for the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award will be held at the Poetry Center at PCCC in Paterson, NJ on Saturday, March 16, 2024. The winner and finalists are all scheduled to read at this event.
The winner is Miriam Levine of Concord, NH. Her collection, Forget About Sleep, was published this month by NYQ Books as part of the award.
The five finalists and their manuscript titles are Emily Hyland, Divorced Business Partners; Nancy Lubarsky, Truth to the Rumors; Stephen S. Mills, We Will Always Be Perverts; Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Not Waving, and Sean Webb, Disappointment Awaits.
Miriam Levine's Forget about Sleep portrays the gifts and perils of aging as she remembers lost lovers, friends, and beloved family, and it celebrates treasured places and the near and dear still alive. These bold poems of sensual and spiritual life move from gritty Northern New Jersey to New England and Florida, from interior spaces to landscapes and the gardens she tends.
Miriam Levine is the author of five previous books of poetry and three books of prose. Her honors include the Autumn House Poetry Prize. A fellow of the NEA, and grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Levine is Professor emerita at Framingham State University and lives in Florida and New Hampshire. You may find more information about her work at miriamlevine.com
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