The Morton Marr Poetry Prize is an endowment by Marilyn Klepak of Dallas in honor of her father, whose love of poetry has encouraged her to pass this love on to others. The first prize of $1,000 is given to previously unpublished poems in a traditional verse form, by a writer who has not yet written a book of poetry. Owing to a generous supplemental donation by Mr. and Mrs. David T. Searls, Jr., we offer a second place Marr prize of $500, as well as publication in our pages. Judging for 2007 was Debora Greger.

Gretchen Steele Pratt
2007  First Place Winner
Morton Marr Poetry Prize
"Black Baldwin Grand"
(Volume 93, number 1)

Gretchen Steele Pratt's poems are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Iowa Review, RATTLE, and The Greensboro Review. She recently received her MFA from Purdue University.

Bradford Gray Telford
2007 Second Place Winner
Morton Marr Poetry Prize
"Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Analyst"
(Volume 93, number 1)

Bradford Gray Telford has published work in The Yale Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others. A doctoral candidate at The University of Houston, he won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for his work on the poetry of Geneviève Huttin. His translation of Huttin's book The Story of My Voice will appear in 2009.

2007 Honorable Mention
Morton Marr Poetry Prize

Elisabeth Rosen
"Extinctions"

and

Chloë Joan López
"Critique by Tiger"