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Parallel Press author wins national poetry contest
By Katie Gilbert
Library Communications
Posted 1/27/2004
MADISON, Wis.—Andrea Potos, a Parallel Press poet and editorial board member has won first place in the James Hearst Poetry Prize contest for her poem, "Each Self."
The poem was selected from more than 2,250 entries. The award includes a $1,000 prize. "Each Self" will appear in the March/April issue of the North American Review, a bimonthly literary magazine published by the University of Northern Iowa.
Potos authored The Perfect Day in 1998, the first poetry chapbook published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The Perfect Day won a Pippistrelle Best of the Small Press award in 1999; the award is given to 13 new poetry collections, short prose or nonfiction works each year. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including CALYX Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Women's Review of Books and 25 Years of Women’s Poetry. Potos was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003.
James Hearst (1900-1983), for whom the competition is named, taught poetry writing at the University of Northern Iowa and authored several books and poems.
