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Parallel Press presents best university student poetry in Forward
By Michael Worringer
Library Communications
Posted 5/5/2006
MADISON, Wis. -- Forward, a new Parallel Press publication, showcases poetry of the university's first-year Masters of Fine Arts writing students as well as the undergraduate winners, honorable mentions and finalists of the 2006 George B. Hill Program.
"It has been our distinct honor to teach all of our writing students, and to aid them in the formulation of their individual and stirring voices, which they will carry out into the dizzying world," writes Amaud Jamaul Johnson, assistant professor of English in the Creative Writing Program, in the Preface to Forward.
George B. Hill was a member of the class of 1908 at the University of Wisconsin, and was a writer and editor-in-chief of The Daily Cardinal. This year's George B. Hill Poetry Prize winners were selected from more than one hundred contest submissions. The 2006 contest judge was Collen Abel, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Forward is a collaborative effort by UW-Madison's Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, the UW-Madison Libraries and University Communications.
For more information, visit http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/etalia/forward2006.shtml
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Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2600