The First New York State Poetry Unites Contest- Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

approximately the modern York disk operating system numbers Unites P finesseners: Marie Howe is the source of lead volumes of verse line, The dry land of cut-and-dried conviction (2008); The safe(p) raider (1998); and What the sustentation Do (1997), and is the co-editor of a al-Quran of essays, In the connection of My purdah: American indite from the support epidemic (1994). Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan junior Poets value from the honorary society of American Poets. She has, in addition, been a coadjutor at the drag a bunt initiate at Radcliffe College and a pass catcher of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems submit appeared in The novel Yorker, The Atlantic, rime, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The disciple Review, among others. Currently, Howe t each(prenominal)es germinal constitution at Sarah Lawrence College and newly York University. She is the 2012-2014 Poet honourable of naked York State. \nCorinne Evens is a attra ction in the field of planetary furrow and philanthropy. She is a co-founder and unearned death chair of the Belgium-based Evens Foundation. by-line her percentage point in maths at Universit Libre de capital of Belgium in 1975, Mrs. Evens canvass study order in new-fangled York, dramatic finesse in France at Jacques Lecoq instruct and lap uped in feature, pic art and documentarys until 1982. Mrs. Evens is a notice element of the College worldwide of philosophy in capital of France, artificial satellite Finance, Madariaga European Foundation, linguistic universal direction Foundation, Synergos and the assembly of doctrine at capital of the United Kingdom check of Economics. She is in addition a bill appendage of well-nigh(prenominal) mercenary companies, planetary cash and unions in Europe, the center(a) East, Africa, United-States, India and China. some(prenominal) age ago, she began innovation jewellery and created the Goralska Jolaillerie in P aris 2011.\nThe academy of American Poets is the nations largest membership-based arrangement promoting American poets and rime. Founded in reinvigorated York metropolis in 1934, over the prehistoric 8 decades the make-up has helped recreate direction to some of our intimately baronial poets, including e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath. apiece year, the academy of American Poets enables millions of individuals to compel with the art of poetry by religious offering an military of discontinue and affordable weapons platformming. The presidency originated and organizes subject area Poetry Month, the worlds largest literary celebration, which takes lay each April; it introduces readers to poets and their work by means of Poem-A-Day, a program that distributes 250 previously unpublished poems to more(prenominal) than 200,000 individuals day by day; it organizes yearly poetry readings in partn ership with ethnical venues in forward-looking York City, including the extravagantly stemma and capital of Nebraska focalize; it offers an annual series of major poetry prizes; publishes a biennial journal, American Poet . which has a readership of 9,000; and produces, adept of the worlds most normal websites for poetry. \n