“Christopher Blackman is alert to the ironies that link the comedy and tragedy of existence, yet his poems are never arch or brittle. […]By welcoming us with lucidity and candor into the particulars of someone else’s life; they end by handing us back our own lives, transformed.”—Nan Cohen, Final Judge
Christopher Blackman Wins Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize
Final judge Nan Cohen has selected the winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize: Christopher Blackman for his manuscript Three-Day Weekend. His book will be forthcoming from Gunpowder Press in 2024. Seven other poets were selected as finalists: Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Cleaver Magazine, Southeast Review, Booth, and Epiphany, among […]
Final Days! Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize for K-12 educators
Poets working full- or part-time for any K-12 school, public or private, are encouraged to submit a full-length manuscript (48-100 pages) for the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize. Your poems need not focus on schools or teaching, and all school employees—teachers, tutors, custodians, administrators—are eligible. Gunpowder Press editors David Starkey and Chryss Yost named this prize to […]