in the icehouse by Genevieve Kaplan
in the ice house by Genevieve Kaplan, To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Winner, 2009 Judge: Kate Gale, Ph.D. Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery, as well as...
Eloise Klein Healy, 2011 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
The 2011 To the Lighthouse finalist judge is Eloise Klein Healy, the first Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Post Update: Click here to see Eloise’s selected winner, Jessica Piazza.
Carolyn Guinzio Awarded 2010 To the Lighthouse Prize
Carolyn Guinzio’s manuscript “Spoke & Dark” is the winner of the 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, selected by judge Alice Quinn.
Alice Quinn, 2010 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
Alice Quinn is Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s graduate School of the Arts. She was poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007 and at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers, from 1976-1986, and she is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop. Her articles on and interviews with writers, poets, and...
Genevieve Kaplan Awarded 2009 To the Lighthouse Prize
The winner of AROHO’s first annual To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize is Genevieve Kaplan’s manuscript, “in the icehouse.” Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Genevieve Kaplan is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and the Iowa Writers Workshop. She currently lives in Southern California where she is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. She is the founding editor of the Toad Press...
Kate Gale, 2009 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge
Kate Gale, Ph.D., is the managing editor of Red Hen Press. Kate was the inaugural judge for AROHO’s To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize. Update to post: Click here to see Kate’s selected winner, Genevieve Kaplan.