If someone were to write a book about Nancy Mitchell the title would have to be Brave because that is what she is, in her life and in her writing.  Mitchell has seen some things and has faced them head-on, eyes wide open.  This interview focuses on the poems contained...

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NM:  This is fascinating question, to which the answer, after long consideration, is yes. The poem was written during a long and excruciating estrangement from a beloved whose body, in my longing, I projected onto every shape in my field of...

Submission Guidelines

The seventeenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, NC and District of Columbia) will consist of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft B...

Each year Delaware Division of the Arts (DDoA) awards Individual Artist Fellowship grants to deserving applicants in the categories of Emerging ($3000), Established ($6000), and one Masters ($10,000). The recipients come from all genres – literature, music, visual arts...

2018 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize winner announced. Becky Gould Gibson (above, left) with Sharon McCallum, judge (above, right). Photo by Linda Blaskey.

Becky Gould Gibson of Winston-Salem, NC has been named the winner of the 2018 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for her manusc...

SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL DOGFISH HEAD POETRY PRIZE OPENS MAY 15, 2018!

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The sixteenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WV...