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Anne
Halley
was for twenty-five years Poetry Editor of MR, had a long
association with the English Department, and was author of
three distinctive volumes of verse and many prize-winning
stories, while enjoying a long career as a beloved teacher
in the U.S. and abroad._
The
Anne Halley Poetry Prize
is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Review and the English
Department of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. A Prize
of $500 is awarded annually for the best poem to appear in
the preceding year of MR, as chosen by two editors and a member
of the English Department. The prize poet is invited to give
a spring reading in Amherst.
The
2010 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Donald Morril
for his poem Enemy Infant
Volume
50, Issue 3
Donald Morrill is the author
of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky
and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as four
books of nonfiction: The Untouched Minutes (winner
of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool,
A Stranger’s Neighborhood, and, most recently,
Impetuous Sleeper. His work has appeared widely in
journals and anthologies, and his honors include the Mid-List
Press First Series Award, the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction
Award, the Emerging Writers of Creative Nonfiction Award from
Duquesne University Press, and The Missouri Review Editors’
Prize for Nonfiction.
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The
2009 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Marilyn Hacker
for her poems Ghazal: min al-hobbi ma khatal, and
Ghazal: dar al-harb
Volume 49, Issue 1&2
Marilyn Hacker is the author of eleven books
of poems, most recently Essays on Departure: New and Selected
Poems (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto
(Norton, 2003). Recent translations include Guy Goffette’s
Charlestown Blues (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (Graywolf,
2008). She lives in New York and Paris.
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The
2008 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Ralph Black
for 21st Century Lecture
Volume 48, Issue 3
Ralph Black's poems have appeared in the Carolina
Quarterly and the Georgia and Gettysburg
Reviews, among other journals. His first book, Turning
Over the Earth, was published by Milkweed Editions. He
teaches at SUNY Brockport, where he is Co-director of the
Brockport Writers Forum.
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2007
Winner:
First Do No Harm, by Bob Hicok
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2006
Winner:
Birds in the Woods, by Brian Swann
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2005
Winner:
the corgis of queen elizabeth, by Diane Wald
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