Professor LeAnne Howe Final Judge for North Carolina Literary Review Poetry Prize

Eidson Chair in American Literature LeAnne Howe served as the final judge for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize sponsored by the North Carolina Literary Review. Just over 400 poems were submitted by 115 poets, and Howe selected Barbara Campbell’s poem “Half an Avocado and a Dollop of Hollandaise” from eleven finalists whose poems were selected for publication in 2023 by Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin.

Click here to read more about the contest and the winning poem.