Poetry Quarterly is proud to offer the Rebecca Lard award for 2012. Submissions for this award will be accepted through September 2012.

The winner of the Lard award will receive:

$300 (US)

Your poem featured in the subsequent Poetry Quarterly Edition

10 Copies of the book in print

You will be featured on the back cover

You will be featured on the Poetry Quarterly website

Free entry to the next 5 Poetry Quarterly Contests

5 honorable mentions will receive:

Publication in the subsequent Poetry Quarterly edition

Free entry to the next contest

For complete details, see “Rules”

All entrants receive a 1 year electronic subscription. ($20 Value)

All poems submitted are considered for publication.

Rebecca Lard (1772-1855) was the first poet in Indiana. In her day, Lard was well known for submitting to publications. A copy of her little volume of verse (there are only five numbered pages) is preserved in the collection of the Historical & Philosophical Society of Ohio, Cincinnati, and an undated clipping from an early issue of the Cincinnati Gazette pasted on the inner wrapper states that it is the work of Mrs. Lard, “a lady of Indiana.” Also authored The Banks of the Ohio which was published in 1823.

To submit by mail see the "Rules" page.

Shaindel Beers

Shaindel Beers' first full-length poetry collection, A Brief History of Time, was released by Salt Publishing in 2009. She is at work on her second collection, The Children's War and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary (http://contrarymagazine.com/). Find her online at http://shaindelbeers.com/. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon's high desert.