BkMk Press Author Wins Poets’ Prize
BkMk Press is delighted to announce that Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, by Tony Barnstone (BkMk P, 2009), has been awarded the Poets’ Prize, one of the nation’s top awards for a book of poems. The prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. Publishers of recent Poets’ Prize books include Houghton Mifflin, W.W. Norton, Alice James Books, TriQuarterly Books, Penguin, Viking, and Counterpoint—a list that now will include UMKC’s own BkMk Press.
Books for this award are nominated by a prize selection committee and voted on by a panel consisting of many of the nation’s top poets. The Poets’ Prize comes with a $3,000 cash award for the author. An award ceremony will take place on Thurs., May 19, 2011, at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City.
For more information about Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki visit BkMk Press’ Web site at
http://cas.umkc.edu/bkmk/catalogue/978-1-886157-71-2.html
To purchase a copy of Tongue of War or other BkMk titles, call (816) 235-2558.
