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Parallel Press’ Forward showcases best young poets on campus
By Michael Worringer
Library Communications
Posted 5/23/2007
MADISON, Wis. -- Forward, an annual 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 2007 George B. Hill Program.
"Beauty, empathy, anxiety, craftsmanship, and recklessness thrive in the works of young writers today. The voices of our best young poets cast a spectrum of interests, and take many shapes and forms," 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 100 contest submissions. The 2007 contest judge was Jennifer Key, 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 on the Parallel Press, visit http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/.
Orders may be sent to:
The Parallel Press, UW-Madison Libraries
372 Memorial Library
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2600
