[New-Poetry] Seattle poet J.W. Marshall win prize

[jfq at myuw.net]

I love Open Books. I'll have to remember to congratulate him the next time I'm in there.


On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 jforjames at aol.com wrote:

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> Last updated August 8, 2007 5:14 p.m. PT
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> Seattle poet J.W. Marshall is the 2007 winner of the prestigious Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College.
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> Marshall, 55, will receive $1,000 as well as publication of his first full-length collection. Oberlin University Press has scheduled March for release of his volume, titled "Meaning a Cloud."
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> Word of the award arrived the day after his longtime dog, Sandy, died. "There were a lot of emotions those two days," Marshall said, co-proprietor of Open Books, the poetry-only bookstore in Wallingford, with his wife and fellow poet, Christine Deavel.
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