Extended Deadlines for Open Submissions and Translation Award
Due to technical issues with our submissions software, the deadline for open submissions is now February 14, 2010.
Kore is also extending the Translation Award deadline to February 28th, 2010 as we do international advertising to draw a wider variety of submissions making the award more competitve.
Keep your new year’s resolution this year:
get writing and submit online tod
About the Prize
Kore Press established this translation prize to memorialize Jeremy Ingalls (1911-2000)–a scholar, poet, and adventurer. In 1941 Ingalls’ book of poems, The Metaphysical Sword, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize by Stephen Vincent Benet. Ingalls’ other poetry collections include Tahl (1945), The Woman From the Island (1958), These Islands Also (1959), This Stubborn Quantum (1983), Summer Liturgy (1985) and her posthumously released Selected Poems (2007).
As a graduate student, Ingalls was a Republic of China Fellow of Classical Chinese Literature and Language at the University of Chicago, where she also worked with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Thornton Wilder. She later served as Director of the English Department and of the Department of Asian Studies at Rockford College in Illinois.
About the Judge
Sawako Nakayasu’s books have been published by Burning Deck Press, Quale Press, and Verse Press. Her translations include For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide (New Directions, 2008) which won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent, as well as Four From Japan (Litmus Press, 2006). She has received fellowships from the NEA and PEN. Visit her website: http://www.factorial.org/sn/sn_home.html
