2025 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize
Congratulations to CHARD DENIORD, winner of this year's Anne Halley Poetry Prize!
Nathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy have selected Chard deNiord's poem “This Side of You” from MR's Spring 2024 issue (Vol. 65, Issue 1) for the prestigious prize.
CHARD DENIORD is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (U. of Pittsburgh Press) and Interstate (U. of Pittsburgh Press). He served as the poet laureate of Vermont from 2015 to 2019.
Stay tuned for information about our reading with Chard in late spring/early summer. A recording of the event will be up afterward.
HISTORY AND INFORMATION
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.