Roger Craik Takes Second Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry!

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

BlazeVOX [books] author Roger Craik has taken Second Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry! The final judge for this year’s prize was Paisley Rekdal. Winning the competition not only includes a cash prize but also publication in the Nimrod International Journal.  His poems, “John Ruskin and a Nursing Home,” “‘Memory of a Free Festival’ By David Bowie,” “Founder’s Day,” “The Mistress at the Funeral,” “Telling George, Charlotte, and Louis,” “The Very Worst,” “Revenant,” “Grandmaster,” “Roseangle,” and “Dear Maxine,” will appear in print later in the year.

https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/nimrod-literary-awards/

 

Check out Roger’s BlazeVOX books here:

In Other Days by Roger Craik

Down Stranger Roads by Roger Craik

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org
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