English Professor wins 2014 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry

Bunny Goodjohn, a Randolph English professor and director of the writing program, has received The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry for 2014. Her book, Bone Song will be published by Briery Creek Press in May 2015.

A contest judge, Craig Challender, wrote, ‘Last night, you made love like a miller makes flour: detached, silent, / leaving the stone to do its work, the grinding of bone and skin.’ B. A. Goodjohn’s plangent, lived-in voice surfaces in poem after poem in this collection, whether formal or free, lyric or narrative. In a time that too often privileges fractal facility over wisdom, Bone Song is a tonic—refreshing and vital.”

The winner of the award receives an honorarium of $1000 and publication by Briery Creek Press.