Ned Balbo, a professor at Loyola and a Rodgers Forge resident, has won the 2010 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for his manuscript The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems. In addition to receiving a $1,000 prize, his book will be published by Story Line Press. Alicia Stallings was the judge for this year’s competition:
“One of the things I love about The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems is how pop culture references to the monsters and heroes of horror films, science fiction novels and television series, sprinkled throughout, are not glibly hip, but both personal and universalizing—we see them for the modern mythology they are. The father of modern horror, Edgar Allan Poe, himself provides a thread running through this book-length meditation on adoption and identity, on love and heartbreak, alienation and belonging.”
Read more:
http://www.wcupa.edu/_Academics/sch_cas/poetry/DonaldJusticePrizeWinner.asp
Congrats, Ned!