Our beloved poet has just won a $5,000 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2009). Verse still matters! We at the Accord say, "Hell yes!" and, "Hey Sugar-Bear, how about buying us dinner?"
His three prize-winning poems are titled, "On the Porch of P.X. Rutz's Log Cabin Ten Miles Northwest of Boulder, MT"; "Finding the Handwriting of a Woman I Loved in a Paperback She Left Behind Years Ago"; and "Photograph of Jack Spicer Holding a Life-Sized Plaster Bust of Jack Spicer." The titles, we are told, broke a world record for length in their weight class.
Find them here: http://www.dorothyprizes.org
Jessica Anthony is a hell of a writer and a lunatic and the Portland Accord would like to express their love for her by declaring an immediate and instantaneous moratorium on all activities which do not involve chaotic drinking, notwithstanding mandatory socio-biological requirements pursuant to the perpetuation of life systems (i.e. energy-production) and legalistic jargon. Jess is single-handedly causing global climate change by being so hot... and yet so cool. Her novel The Convalescent appears in June. Buy it. It will surpass even the grilled cheese + tomato sandwiches at the Tastee 29, and that is the highest form of praise.
