Sewell Awarded Tenth Gate Prize for Poetry
Lisa Sewell of
Philadelphia, PA has won the 2014 Tenth Gate Prize for her Poetry manuscript: Impossible Object, her fourth poetry
collection. This is the first time the
prize has been awarded.
“Lisa Sewell’s poems are
shot through with an adhesive intelligence born of the accretion of craft,
discernment, and engagement with the world. This is exactly the kind of
collection for which the Tenth Gate prize was developed,” says Series
Editor for the Tenth Gate, Leslie McGrath.
When not writing poetry,
Lisa teaches in the English Department at Villanova University where she is
also co-director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. She is also a
co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of two essay collections on 21st
Century North American poets.
Lisa’s poems have
appeared in the Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Paris Review and Harvard
Review. She has been awarded a Leeway Foundation grant and a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Impossible Object will be available by advance order for $17 plus
$4 shipping and handling at wordworksbooks.org.
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