Poetry
Author Bio
Emily Lupita Plum received an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University and BA from Central College.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including The North American Review, International Poetry Review, Poetry International, Lyrical Iowa, and StringTown, and will be anthologized in Poetic Voices Without Borders 2.
A bilingual (Japanese/English) collection of her poetry, Water and Stone 水と石, was published in 2004 by Koumyakusya Press.
Emily won the 2008 Marble Faun Prize for the Poem, The William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, New Orleans, and has received the John Allen Writing Award; the Phyllis J. Lepke Endowed Graduate Award, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities; and the Pearl Hogrefe Recognition Award for Creative Writing.
She has read her poetry at Poetry Iowa!, the Des Moines National Poetry Festival, in the Zanzibar Reading Series, and in the Central College Writers Reading Series, among others.
She currently working on her next collection of poetry, a novel and a memoir.
Emily’s poems
are forthcoming in:
International Poetry Review
[Fall 2007 Issue]
Poetry International
[ 2007 Issue - Out this Spring]
North American Review
[Fall 2007 Issue - Out this Spring]
North American Review
[James Hearst Poetry Prize Finalist
April 2008 Issue - Out later this year]
Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 [Anthology, Gival Press
Out this Spring]
International Poetry Review
[Hispanic Issue 2008 -
Out this summer]
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Emily wins the Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal for the Poem
~click here to see the announcement on the Faulkner Society webpage~
Competition Judge Nicole Cooley
writes of Emily’s poem, “Her Mexico Blurs”:
"I admire this poem for its weaving of many threads of imagery and registers of language, and for its vivid details. The poem links the personal and the political in fascinating ways. I also find the poem's evocation of speech/language/tongue very compelling: the poet does a wonderful job of exploring questions about the relationship between speech and location in this poem. Finally, the poem raises important questions about immigration and what it means to be a citizen"
Look for Emily’s award-winning poem, “Her Mexico Blurs” in the Double Dealer Redux 2008-2009 double issue.
Water & Stone: A Story in Poetry from Japan
Poet
Emily Lupita Plum
is available for
readings & workshops.
Please “Contact Emily”
for more information.
Recent Publications & Awards:
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*International Merit Award, Poetry 2008 International Poetry Competition, Atlanta Review
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*“Differential” Atlanta Writers Club Poetry Contest, Second Place, 2008
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*“Calloused” Scratch Short Story Contest, Winner, May, 2008
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*The Myth of Gravity, Gival Press Poetry Award, Finalist, 2007
* “The Market Where Blankets Bend” Forthcoming in International Poetry Review Hispanic Issue, Summer, 2008
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*“First Steps” and “The Last Drops of a Holy Drink” the University of New Orleans Study Abroad in Writing Contest, Honorable Mention
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*“Two Islands” Finalist - 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the North American Review -publication forthcoming in Spring issue
* The Myth of Gravity, MFA poetry thesis, awarded an Iowa State University Graduate College Research Excellence Award, 2007
* Forthcoming in Poetic Voices Without Borders 2; “Not This” and “Wing By Wing”
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*Forthcoming in the North American Review; “In The Karate Dojo Sensei Teaches Emptiness”
* “Her Mexico Blurs” receives the 2008 Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal for the Poem, The William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, New Orleans (Judged by Nicole Cooley)
* Publication in Lyrical Iowa 2007; “Island Woman Dances”
* Phyllis J. Lepke Endowed Graduate Award,
Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities,
Iowa State University, 2007
* Publication in Poetry International 2007; “Frontier”
*Publication in International Poetry Review 2007; “Not This”
* Iowa Poetry Association Poetry Contest 2006;
“Sakura, Sakura” 3rd Place
* Publication in Lyrical Iowa 2006; “Sakura, Sakura”
* Fourth Genre’s Editors’ Prize 2006;
“Her Mexico Blurs” Honorary Mention
* Publication in StringTown 2006;
“Starfish Cafe”
*Publication in Sketch 2006;
“After Seven Years”
“I Was Her Teacher”
“In the Aisle”
“My Brothers From the Sea”
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*Publication in Sketch 2005; “Wing By Wing” “Orange Robes Folding”
International Merit Award winner!
Poetry 2008 International Poetry Competition, Atlanta Review
