Winner of the 2019 Maxine and Joseph Casin Prize for Poetry Thesis\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge(s): CWW Poetry Faculty<\/p>\n About Shaina’s thesis Carolyn Hembree says: “Shaina Monet’s poetry resists paraphrase: elision, interrupted syntax, and doubling demonstrate the inadequacy of language to convey the complexity of human experience. Shaina’s inventions in form and language reveal the unique vision of one black woman reclaiming her private and public history in America. Her poetry is unlike anyone’s.”<\/p>\n Winner of the 2018 Iowa Review Award in Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: Elizabeth Willis<\/a><\/p>\n Willis writes: \u201cShaina Monet’s poems bring us to specific occasions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artmaking with contemporary insight into what these works reveal both by what they show and by what they occlude. These ekphrastic works draw our attention to figures\u2014not just figures of speech but literal bodies\u2014moving in and out of the framed space of painting. Actor, artist, model, poet, and reader\u2014wholly and in fragments\u2014inhabit the implicitly racialized forcefields of weather and color. Rather than explaining, summarizing, or translating other works of art, these poems are with them, in layered representations of the ways art accompanies us, the shape of its afterlife, its blindness and insights, and its formidable power to transport, narrow, or expand the viewer’s field of vision.\u201d<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> place in the 2018 Andrea Saunders Gereighty\/Academy of American Poets Poetry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: Allison Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n Winner of the 2017 Vassar Miller Poetry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: Wang Ping<\/a><\/p>\n About the winning poems, \u201cBrain Waves from an Alien\u2019s Radio\u201d and \u201cPsychic Captions,\u201d Ping writes: “Content and form dance in these poems. The author took risks in poetic forms to explore and bridge the inner and outer worlds, and the effort shows: refreshing, lively, and original work.”<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> Place in the 2017 Andrea Saunders Gereighty\/Academy of American Poets Poetry Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: Alexandra van de Kamp<\/a><\/p>\n About Shaina\u2019s submitted work van de Kamp notes: “I admired the risk-taking occuring in all the poems [this poet] submitted […] I liked how they were unafraid to take on difficult matters and how language is made to seem malleable, slippery and unpredictable at times.”<\/p>\n Honorable Mention for the 2016 Vassar Miller Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: Jeredith Merrin<\/a><\/p>\n Merrin comments on Shaina\u2019s submission: “they stayed in my mind because of the confident toughness about them and the narrative pressure in \u2018RIP\u2019 and \u2018Delta,\u2019 a propulsion largely made up of the hard smacks of internal rhyming as in brake, mistakes, stake (back, flank), wake. Or just something like \u201ccricket\u2019s sticky click.\u201d This is a little poetry-slammy isn\u2019t it? I wonder if she has a larger grouping of work around the event of the accident. I feel that she has ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honorable Mention for the 2012 Ryan Chighizola Memorial Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge: N\/A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winner of the 2019 Maxine and Joseph Casin Prize for Poetry Thesis\u00a0 Judge(s): CWW Poetry Faculty About Shaina’s thesis Carolyn Hembree says: “Shaina Monet’s poetry resists paraphrase: elision, interrupted syntax, and doubling demonstrate the inadequacy of language to convey the complexity of human experience. Shaina’s inventions in form and language reveal the unique vision of … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}