The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Thursday June 22, 2006
Francisco Aragón tells the story of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, the first and only national first book award for Latino/Latina poets, and highlights the origins of the Prize & its first winner: Pity the Drowned Horses, by Sheryl Luna (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). The winner of the second Andrés Montoya Prize has just been announced: The Outer Bands, by Gabriel Gomez (forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
And for your reading pleasure, he has given us a poem:
“Love Poem,” by Francisco Aragón
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