{"id":485,"date":"2021-03-07T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-03-07T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T20:28:05","slug":"jean-prokott-wins-2021-howling-bird-press-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2021\/03\/07\/jean-prokott-wins-2021-howling-bird-press-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Prokott Wins 2021 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Press\nRelease<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March\n5, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Prokott Wins\n2021 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MINNEAPOLIS,\nMarch 5, 2021<\/strong>\u2014Howling\nBird Press has awarded its 2021 poetry prize to Almost Sunset at High Noon<\/em>\nby Jean Prokott of Rochester, Minnesota. The press will publish the book in fall\n2021, and Prokott receives a $1,000 prize. Prokott\u2019s work was chosen in a\nnational competition from among more than 200 submissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost\nSunset at High Noon<\/em> is\na collection of poems spanning four parts and covers topics related to the\npandemic, suicide, teaching, bullying, growing up, and survival. Prokott\u2019s\npoems are grounded in modern everyday life and often use a conversational tone\nand offer a humorous twist. Prokott\u2019s unique voice blazes through her poems,\nwhich vary stylistically from contemporary to hybrid form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI see the book as a reflection of the inner vs. outer\nselves we experience day by day, hour by hour,\u201d Prokott says. \u201cEach of us goes from trying\nto understand, existentially, who we are, what our place is, what grief does to\nus\u2014while at the same time trying to understand the same things from a political\n<\/em>perspective. The collection moves between how our personal experience\ndefines us as much as how political culture defines us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean\nProkott has poetry published or forthcoming in Arts & Letters<\/em>, Angel\nCity Review<\/em>, Anomaly<\/em>, and Adirondack Review<\/em>, among other\njournals; she is a recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a recipient of the\nJoan Ramseyer Poetry Award, a finalist for the RHINO Founder\u2019s Prize, and a\nfinalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. She has an MFA from Minnesota\nState University Mankato and a Master of Science in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augsburg\nUniversity\u2019s student-run Howling Bird Press issues a nationwide call for\nsubmissions on an annual basis. Prior to awarding the 2021 Howling Bird Prize\nto Prokott, Howling Bird\u2019s editorial board reviewed over 200 manuscripts\nsubmitted by writers at all levels of experience, from beginning to\nwell-established poets. Each manuscript was fully read and carefully\nconsidered, and the editorial board engaged in extensive discussion about the\nsubmissions with Creative Writing faculty members before selecting the winner. Almost\nSunset at High Noon<\/em> was one of six finalists, and the others are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n