We are excited to announce that Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s  manuscript Migrant Psalms is the winner of the 2020 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize is

We are delighted to welcome you to the Drinking Gourd family. Congratulations, Darrel!

In the light of the recent pandemic. We are sorry to announce the postponement of the 2020 Drinking Gourd Winner’s announcement. We have a winner, however, we are taking this time to focus on the wellbeing of our students. We appreciate your understanding.

Stopgap reckons with the myth of progress: all the temporary measures enacted in the name of a promised future that never arrives. The gap in which we live. This thematic thread is braided across multiple registers: personal-familial, societal-political, and spiritual-mythological.

APPLY here: https://poetry.northwestern.edu/2020-drinking-gourd-chapbook-contest/

We are truly excited to announce that this year’s winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize is Ama Codjoe and her manuscript, Blood of the Air. Congratulations, Ama!

Friday, October 12th, 2018
Hagstrum Room
Annie May Swift Auditorium

Thursday, May 10, 2018
University Hall 201
5pm

Friday, April 27 2018
University Hall 201
12:30 PM

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
12:30-2pm, Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201)