Inaugural Cathlamet prize for poetry awarded
Ann Taylor, Professor of English at Salem State University in Salem, Mass., has won the inaugural Cathlamet Prize for Poetry offered by Ravenna Press of Spokane.
Taylor’s poetry manuscript, “The River Within” was selected by judge Lynn Strongin, a poet and reviewer currently residing in Victoria, B.C., over a field of national and international contestants. This is the first year the prize has been offered and it carries with it a cash prize plus publication of the winning poetry collection by Ravenna Press.
Taylor is the author of two books on college composition and a collection of personal essays. Her poems have been published in a number of journals and her poem “To Carry on with the Dying” has been selected for publication in the 10th anniversary collection of the Copperfield Review.
Ravenna Press is a small press originating in Seattle in 1999 by Kathryn Rantala, who named the Cathlamet prize; her family of Finnish immigrants settled here and she named the prize to honor them.