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Mark Craver Poetry Award
The Mark Craver Poetry Award was created in honor of Mark Craver, an MA and MFA alum as well as a popular Mason adjunct professor and area high school teacher until his death in January 2004. Mark was the author of several books of poems, including The Problem of Grace, Seven Crowns for the White Lady of the Other World and Blood Poems, and They Come for What You Love. His last book, Say When, was published posthumously.
The contest is open to any current Mason MFA poetry student, full- or part-time. The award is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less, on any subject and in any form.; work under consideration at periodicals or other contests may be submitted for the Craver Award provided it has not yet appeared in print. As is the case with all of our prizes and awards, the author should submit two copies of the work to be considered, and the author's name should not appear on any page of the submission manuscript.