May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize
The May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize is named for May Sarton, the renowned novelist, memoirist, poet, and feminist (1912-1995) who lived for many years in Nelson, New Hampshire, not far from Peterborough, home of William L. Bauhan Publishing. In 1967, she approached Bauhan and asked him to publish her book of poetry, As Does New Hampshire. She wrote the collection to celebrate the bicentennial of Nelson, and dedicated it to the residents of the town.
May Sarton was a prolific writer of poetry, novels, and perhaps what she is best known for—nonfiction on growing older (Recovering: A Journal, Journal of Solitude, among others.) She considered herself a poet, first, though, and in honor of that and to celebrate the centenary of her birth in 2012, Sarah Bauhan, who inherited her father’s small publishing company, launched the prize.
Meet our 2024 judge, Dorsey Craft!
Dorsey Craft is the author of Plunder (Bauhan Publishing 2020), which won the 2019 May Sarton Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks: My Football Team is Winning (EAT 2023) and The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella (CutBank 2020). Her work has received support from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and the Anderson Center at Tower View. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Mississippi Review, Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. An Assistant Poetry Editor for Agni, Dorsey teaches at the University of North Florida and co-organizes the Dreamboat Poetry Series with Jessica Q. Stark in Jacksonville, FL.
Our 2023 winner, Heather Treseler!
For her collection, Auguries & Divinations
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