Prize: The winner receives $1,000 and publication by MMM Press in 2010.

DEADLINE: August 1, 2009 (postmark).

Entry fee: $25

Eligibility:

• Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English.

• Staff and their family members are not eligible to enter.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed if the poet agrees to notify MMM Press of acceptance elsewhere.

• Entries may not be previously published, but individual poems and chapbook-length sections may have been if the previous publisher gives permission to reprint. (More than half of the ms. may not have been published as a collection.)