{"id":2346,"date":"2017-05-19T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2017-08-14T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T20:37:34","slug":"caitlin-doyle-wins-prestigious-frost-farm-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/05\/19\/caitlin-doyle-wins-prestigious-frost-farm-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Doyle Wins Prestigious Frost Farm Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caitlin Doyle (Poetry \u201908) has recently won\u00a0the Frost Farm Poetry Prize! \u00a0Caitlin\u2019s winning poem \u201cWish\u201d was selected by contest judge Deborah Warren from a pool of over 750 entries, the largest in the competition\u2019s history. About the poem, Warren says, “This poem is a masterpiece masquerading (with its incantatory beat and simple language) as a Mother Goose rhyme. It\u2019s also that rare poem where the form is integral to the story.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Warren continues:<\/p>\n

“Each of the first four trimeter couplets expresses one of the speaker\u2019s wishes. Each line begins with \u2018I told him I needed\u2019 and the final three couplets look back on the wishes with wrenching regret. Following each little couplet is a parenthesis: one tetrameter line explaining why the wish, although granted, ironically failed. The parentheses play on the idiom \u2018wishing for the moon.\u2019 They rhyme, and \u2014 taken by themselves\u2014collectively make a poem in their own right.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you do remove these parentheses, the seven trimeter couplets themselves make up an unrhymed sonnet\u2014with a conventional volta between the octave and the sestet. It\u2019s the poem\u2019s tone that is so sad. The deceptively nursery-rhymish repetitions (\u201cI told him\u201d in the octave; \u201cNow I have\u201d in the sestet) only emphasize the speaker\u2019s desolation.”<\/i><\/p>\n

To see the official contest announcement and read Caitlin\u2019s winning poem, visit this link:\u00a0http:\/\/www.frostfarmpoetry.org\/prize-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As the winner of the 2017 Frost Farm Prize, Caitlin<\/span> will receive an honorarium and she will also be the featured reader at The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, on Friday, June 16. <\/b><\/p>\n

Congratulations, Caitlin!<\/p>\n

Following her graduation from our MFA program as the George Starbuck Fellow in Poetry, Caitlin has received a number of awards, fellowships, Writer-In-Residence teaching posts, and publication credits. Her recent honors include a Yaddo Colony fellowship and a Writer-In-Residence fellowship at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The New Criterion<\/i>, The Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i>, The Golden Shovel Anthology <\/i>(University of Arkansas Press), the Poetry Foundation\u2019s \u201cPoem of the Day\u201d series, the PBS NewsHou<\/i>r Poetry Series, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Doyle (Poetry \u201908) has recently won\u00a0the Frost Farm Poetry Prize! \u00a0Caitlin\u2019s winning poem \u201cWish\u201d was selected by contest judge Deborah Warren from a pool of over 750 entries, the largest in the competition\u2019s history. About the poem, Warren says, “This poem is a masterpiece masquerading (with its incantatory beat and simple language) as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}