ALBERT B. CASUGA: GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2011

Toronto Star's Vit Wagner wrote the following story on the

Griffin Poetry Prize finalists and the subsequent winners. (Click the image to zoom into the text.)

The grandest win should go to American poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg who bested Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. It's a tough name to remember, but if you got it, you will not forget it.

Except for John Steffler and Seamus Heaney, these poets have scarcely caught the attention of readers. So, poets don't get read anymore. Pity. Prizes like

Griffin Poetry Prize might help.

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Summer Suns (short story collection with Cirilo F. Bautista, Manila, UST Press, 1962); Narra Poems and Others (poetry collection, San Beda College Publications, Manila, 1968); Still Points (poetry collection, Flores & Associates, Manila, 1972); In a Sparrow's Time (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1990); Songs For My Children (poetry collection, Infocom, Canada, 1996); The Aesthetics of Literature (Literary Theory and Criticism, De La Salle University, Manila, 1972); Editor: Man in Search of Meaning: Literature (Humanities Series, Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1970); Man and His Literary Past: The Classical Tradition (Asia Foundation & DLSU Textbook Committee, Manila, 1971); A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2009). The author's prose and poetry are anthologized in books published in the Philippines, Canada, United States, Australia, and Indonesia.