The Cathlamet Prize
The Ravenna Press of Spokane has announced the winner of its inaugural Cathlamet Prize for Poetry: Ann Taylor, a poet and English professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
Her manuscript, “The River Within,” was selected by judge Lynn Strongin, a Victoria, B.C. poet. The award includes a cash prize, as well as publication of the book by the Ravenna Press.
The Ravenna Press originated in Seattle in 1999. The company and its founder, Kathryn Rantala, moved to Spokane in 2007.
It has published 50 titles, many of them “innovative and experimental” with “strong literary foundations,” according to Rantala.