Department of English Graduate Student Wins Hungry Poets Prize

Morgantown, WV, April 7, 2006: Maggie Glover, a first year MFA student in WVU’s Department of English, was awarded the 3rd Annual Hungry Poets Prize this past Sunday, April 2nd. Each year ten finalists are selected from a large pool of contest submissions; the finalists are then invited to read their poems at the Blue Moose Café before a panel of judges and a large audience of supporters. The judges then select a winner and a runner up for the prize. All finalists receive a gift certificate to a local restaurant. The winner is awarded $250.00.

Glover, originally from Pittsburgh, PA., graduated from Denison University, where she studied with David Baker and Ann Townsend before starting her MFA in poetry at WVU. Her current work focuses on the human body and its breakdown. Current influences include Larry Levis, Denise Levertov, and Mary Ann Samyn.

The contest was created by James Friedberg (the Hale J. and Roscoe P. Posten Professor in WVU’s College of Law) in memory of his son, Gabe. All contestants must be under the age of 30.

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