Now in its 6th year, The Kundiman Poetry Prize ensures the annual publication of a book by an Asian American poet. The award is open to self-identified Asian American poets at any stage in their careers. The winner also receives $1,000. 

Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American writing. Starting now, Tupelo will be the new book publisher of The Kundiman Poetry Prize. 

Please read the complete guidelines here.  

The Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. Poets submitting work for consideration may be authors having published only one previous collection or writers without prior book publications. Previous winners include Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Mary Molinary, Jennifer Militello, and Ye Chun. 

Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and as a child spent a year in her mother's hometown of Vienna, so German was the first language she spoke. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from SUNY Oneonta and Syracuse University. The author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences  (Tupelo Press, 2014),  she holds an endowed chair of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.