Parnell Prize Honorable Mention: Marci Ameluxen

Street Girl, Guatemala City Now, after her village has burned, after her family has crawled the jagged path of hunger to this grim city, after she gathered the brave pieces of herself into a bouquet, she stands on the sidewalk at the edge of a blue blanket. Her father lifts a jar of broken glass, [...]

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Anna Scotti’s “Grief” Wins 2011 Parnell Prize

The editors of Compass Rose are pleased to announce the poem “Grief” by Anna Scotti of Los Angeles, has been selected as this year’s winner by final judge Barbara Louise Ungar. This is Scotti’s second consecutive win (yes, we have decided to add a “you can only win once” rule). Honorable mention goes to Marci [...]

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Barbara Louise Ungar to Judge Parnell Poetry Contest

Compass Rose is pleased to announce poet Barbara Louise Ungar will serve as the final judge for this year’s Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize. Ungar’s most recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers’ Book Award), an Eric J. Hoffer award, and was [...]

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Anna Scotti Wins Parnell Poety Contest

Anna Scotti’s poem “Egg” has been selected as the winner of the 2009-2010 Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize by judge James Shea. Scotti is a writer and teacher living in California.  Her poetry has recently appeared in Chautauqua, Adirondack Review, and Chickasaw Plum.  She earned an MFA at Antioch University in 2007, and is at work on [...]

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Poetry Contest: Now until November 15, 2009

The Department of Writing and Literature at Chester College of  New England is pleased to offer the seventh Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize. Named after the founder of COMPASS ROSE, Professor Patricia Parnell, the contest is designed to bring work of the finest quality to the pages of our magazine. Each year, the winner of the [...]

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2008-2009 Parnell Poetry Prize Winner Announced

Patricia Savage has been selected as the 2008-2009 Parnell Poetry Prize winner by judge Ilya Kaminsky. The following were finalists for the prize: M. Lee Alexander, “Lane Bryant, 6 pm” and “The Foreclosure”Evan Ernst, “Superman”Claire Keyes, “Dulcinea”Michelle Maher, “Early Summer”Penelope Scambly Schott, “How to survive a fall through the ice” and “Fugitive Memory”Nina Soifer, “In [...]

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Ilya Kaminsky to Judge Parnell Poetry Contest

COMPASS ROSE is pleased to announce poet Ilya Kaminsky will judge the sixth annual Pat Parnell Poetry Contest. Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo [...]

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2007-2008 Parnell Poetry Prize Winner Announced

Barrie Kreinik has been selected as the 2007-2008 Parnell Poetry Prize winner by judge Patricia Smith. Kreinik is a professional actor and singer who has performed in NYC and with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Kreinik graduated from Cornell University in 2007 with a B.A. in Theatre and English; while there, she served as Editor-in-Chief of [...]

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Alan Metnick & Pat Parnell Poetry Contest

18 September – Alan MetnickSerigraphs, Drawing, Prints, Photographs On September 18 at 2:30 pm, artist Alan Metnick will be giving a public lecture in the conference room of Chester College of New England’s Wadleigh Library. Metnick is a visiting artist, part of the college’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The artist Metnick is someone who might [...]

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News bulletin for 4/16/07. (Regular entries resume next Monday; please check back.)

Tuesday, April 24 & Wednesday, April 25Senior Readings6:30 p.m.Powers 29Chester College of New England Featuring:WT AbernathySean CashmanMark CuginiBrandon GretterTroy Edward RobbinsChris SumnerRandy Tompkins PAT PARNELL POETRY JUDGE ANNOUNCED: Poet Patricia Smith will judge the 2007 Pat Parnell Poetry Contest forCompass Rose. Her most recent collection of poetry, Teahouse of theAlmighty, was a 2005 National Poetry [...]

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