The Colorado Prize given by the Colorado Review, a fifteen-hundred-dollar award for a poetry collection that includes publication by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, will be judged in 2010 by the journal's poetry editor Donald Revell. The poet, who has published thirteen collections as well as translations from the French of Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire, is himself the recipient of a book publication award. Early in Revell's career, From the Abandoned Cities (Harper & Row, 1983) was selected by C. K. Williams for the 1982 National Poetry Series.
Revell's other collections include Gaza of Winter (University of Georgia Press, 1988), Erasures (Wesleyan University Press, 1992), My Mojave (Alice James Books, 2003), Thief of Stings (Alice James Books, 2007), and most recently, Bitter Withy (Alice James Books, 2009). He has also published a book of prose on the life of writing, The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye (Graywolf Press, 2007).
To enter the Colorado Prize competition, poets may submit manuscripts of 48 to 100 pages by January 14. An entry fee of twenty-five dollars includes a subscription to Colorado Review.
The past Colorado Prize winners and judges are:
2008
Endi Bogue Hartigan for One Sun Storm
selected by Martha Ronk
2007
Craig Morgan Teicher for Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
selected by Paul Hoover
2006
Jaswinder Bolina for Carrier Wave
selected by Lyn Hejinian
2005
Karen Garthe for Frayed escort
selected by Calvin Bedient
2004
Rusty Morrison for Whethering
selected by Forrest Gander
2003
G. C. Waldrep for Goldbeater's Skin
selected by Donald Revell
2002
Robin Ewing for Chemical Wedding
selected by Fanny Howe
2001
Geoffrey Nutter for A Summer Evening
selected by Jorie Graham
2000
Sally Keith for Design
selected by Allen Grossman
1999
Stephen Burt for Popular Music
selected by Jorie Graham
1998
Michael White for Palma Cathedral
selected by Mark Strand
1997
Catherine Webster for The Thicket Daybreak
selected by Jane Miller
1996
Bruce Beasley for Summer Mystagogia
selected by Charles Wright
1995
Dean Young for Strike Anywhere
selected by Charles Simic
In the video below, Revell reads from his translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations (Omnidawn Publishing, 2009). A second video from the reading is available on YouTube.