Assistant
Professor of English Adele NeJame’s poem,
"Faces, Serkal House Exhibit" has been awarded honorable mention with
a cash award in the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Prize
competition, Monterey, California (1300 poems submitted, 40 states
represented). Finalist judge: Edward Hirsch, award winning poet and
Guggenheim president. NeJame’s poem has been published in the foundation’s
newsletter and, along with the other winners, it now appears on the foundation
website: www.torhouse.org/prize.htm
The winning poem is also forthcoming this summer (as a reprint) in
the Beirut Art and Literary Journal published by the American University
of Beirut, Lebanon. Ne Jame's new poems deal with the lasting effects of war in
the Middle East.
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