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shufPoetry Annual Poetry Prize

Deadline: July 31, 2014

Judge: Khadijah Queen

It’s 2014 and we are inching (and itching) to give away $100 to the bestest experimental poem we can find! We want your textual image poems, your audio file poems, your video poems, your handwritten poems, your painted poems, your language/hybrid/prose/animation poems. You know, the poems you make to play? Send them in! Our contest is free. Winner gets to be our featured poet in a future issue and, like, four hundred quarters.  Shuf on.

Submit to contest here.

Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic Books 2008) and Black Peculiar, which won the 2010 Noemi Press book award for poetry and was a finalist for the Gatewood Prize at Switchback Books. Individual poems appear in Best American Nonrequired Reading, jubilat, Aufgabe, Fire and Ink: A Social Action Anthology and many other journals and anthologies. Prose appears in Memoir, Rattle, Cutthroat, and forthcoming in The Force of What’s Possible (Nightboat 2014). Her drawings, performance, video and sound art have been presented at the Seattle Art Museum, Le Flash Atlanta, Cuchifritos Gallery in NYC, the Tao Gallery in Mumbai, India as part of Miko Kuro’sMidnight Tea project, and elsewhere. She currently works as an editor for a finance company, is raising a teenager, and since 2008 has curated the multi-genre reading series Courting Risk.

 

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