{"id":645,"date":"2021-07-16T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=645"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:20:01","slug":"2021-poetry-prize-cover-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2021\/07\/16\/2021-poetry-prize-cover-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Poetry Prize &#8211; Cover Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howling Bird Press has awarded its 2021 poetry prize to &#8220;The Second Longest Day of the Year&#8221; by Jean Prokott of Rochester, Minnesota. The press will publish the book in November, and along with publication, Prokott will receive a $1,000 prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2021\/07\/The-Second-Longest-Day-of-the-Year-book-cover-676x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Second Longest Day of the Year poetry book cover.\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2021\/07\/The-Second-Longest-Day-of-the-Year-book-cover-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2021\/07\/The-Second-Longest-Day-of-the-Year-book-cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2021\/07\/The-Second-Longest-Day-of-the-Year-book-cover-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/files\/2021\/07\/The-Second-Longest-Day-of-the-Year-book-cover.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prokott\u2019s work was chosen in a national competition from among more than 200 submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI see the book as a reflection of the inner vs. outer selves we experience day by day, hour by hour,\u201d Prokott says. \u201cEach of us goes from trying to understand, existentially, who we are, what our place is, what grief does to us\u2014while at the same time trying to understand the same things from a political perspective. The collection moves between how our personal experience defines us as much as how political culture defines us.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howling Bird Press has awarded its 2021 poetry prize to &#8220;The Second Longest Day of the Year&#8221; by Jean Prokott of Rochester, Minnesota. The press will publish the book in November, and along with publication, Prokott will receive a $1,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2021\/07\/16\/2021-poetry-prize-cover-reveal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,44,29,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}