Michael S. Moos is 2017 Snyder Prize Winner
Congratulations to Michael S. Moos, winner of the Ashland Poetry Press 2017 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. His manuscript The Idea of the Garden was selected by final judge Elizabeth Spires. The book will be available in fall 2018. Moos will also receive a cash prize of $1,000.
Michael S. Moos is the author of three previous poetry collections: A Long Way to See (MN Book Award nominee), Morning Windows (MN Voices Winner), and Hawk Hover. He is the winner of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board and Loft-McKnight Foundation. Moos has an MFA from Columbia University and was poet-in-residence for the Academy of American Poets, the O’Neill Theater Center/National Theater of the Deaf, as well as several Midwestern arts councils. In the 1970s the National Endowment for the Arts made two documentary films of his work for Poets-in-the-Schools in Kansas and North Dakota.
The Ashland Poetry Press thanks all of our 2017 contestants. We received many excellent manuscripts this year and enjoyed reading them. Finalists for this year are listed below.
You can see a list of previous winners here, including our 2015 winner Life As It by Daneen Wardrop, recipient of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award gold "Ippy" medal for poetry, and our 2014 winner The Genome Rhapsodies by Anna George Meek, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.
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