OPEN READING PERIOD   JULY 1-JULY 31 

Poets chosen for publication during our open reading period are published by Trio House Press.  Selected poets must serve as a Collective Member of Trio House Press for twenty-four months. 

Please include a detailed cover letter approximately two pages in length with your bio, publishing history, and marketing plan along with your manuscript. Manuscripts received outside of this period will not be considered. 

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TRIO HOUSE PRESS BOOK AWARDS  NOVEMBER 1-APRIL 30

AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED SUMMER OF 2012.

Submissions CURRENTLY CLOSED. 2013 Judges announced shortly.

Trio House Press publishes distinct and innovative voices of emerging and established poets.

The Trio Award for First or Second Book includes $1,000, publication, and twenty books.  The Trio Award for First or Second Book is only open to poets with less than two books published.

The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence includes $1,000, publication, and twenty books.  The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to ALL poets, regardless of publication history.

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Trio Award for First or Second Book of Poems

Submissions Open November 1- April 30 2012

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2012 JUDGE ROSS GAY

Ross Gay’s books of poems include Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, MARGIE, Ploughshares and many other magazines.  He has also, with the artist Kimberly Thomas, collaborated on several artists’ books: The Cold Loop, BRN2HNT and The Bullet.  He is an editor with the chapbook press Q Avenue, whose recently published books include Chromosomory by Layli Long Soldier, Amigos by Matthew Dickman, Ad Hoc by Chris Mattingly, and Dolly by Kimberly Thomas and Simone White.  Ross Gay is also on the board of directors of the Bloomington Community Orchard.

Advisory Board

Peter Campion

Lea Deschenes

Terry Ehret

Joan Houlihan

Ilya Kaminsky

Ivy Page

Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence

Submissions Open November 1-April 30 2012

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2012 JUDGE MICHAEL WATERS

photo courtesy of Michael Paul Thomas

Michael Waters' ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006--finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001--finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)--these titles from BOA Editions--Bountiful (1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air (1985)--these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems. His co-edited volumes include Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, he has published poems in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Rolling Stone, and The Pushcart Prize, and has chaired the Poetry Panel for the National Book Award. Waters is Professor of English at Monmouth University and on the faculty of the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.

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