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7/26/2019 Meats Poetry Prize Brochure
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If the Inquisition
Had Come to CoffeeThe coffee was safe in its shaded cups, the grapes
on the plate were snug in their cloudy skins
when the evening sun like an iron bar
levered open the end of the porch
and hung its ruddy beacon where we sat.
With this new light behind you, ever y word you spoke,
every gesture you made showered sparks
like meteors entering the atmosphere, and I saw
that your head was a planet in her quarter phase
and the moth circling your face was a moon.
If the inquisitorial magistrates had been there to see you
as I saw you then, I think the true relation of sun
to earth and stars might have been revealed to them,
and Galileo with his telescope and Jupiter and the mountains
of the moon could with ease have balanced for the rest of us
the forces of faith and reason in one peaceful orbit.
Stephen Meats, Looking for the Pale Eagle(1993, 2014)
THE
Stephen MeatsPoetry Prize
The Midwest Quarterly
A Journal of Contemporary ThoughtPittsburg State University
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The Stephen Meats Poetry PrizeIn April of this year, Stephen Meats will retire after thirty years as poetry editor of The Midwest Quarterly.
In honor of his long service to poetry and to the journal, MQs Editorial Board is happy to announce
that it is establishing The Stephen Meats Poetry Prize, which will award $500 to the author of the
best poem published in the four issues (October, January, April, July) that make up each volume ofThe Midwest Quarterly. The competition will begin with the October, 2016 issue, and the first winner
will be announced in October, 2017.
Initially, the $500 prize will be funded jointly by The Midwest Quarterlyand the Pittsburg State
University College of Arts & Sciences, but in the longer term, the MQBoard plans to establish
a permanent endowment in the Pittsburg State University Foundation not only to help fund the
Prize, but also to support the winners travel expenses to Pittsburg State to give a poetry reading in
conjunction with the presentation of the Prize.
Thats why the Board is reaching out to you, as one of the more than 800 poets Dr. Meats published
in MQduring his tenure as poetry editor. Would you consider making a contribution to help build apermanent endowment in support of the Meats Poetry Prize?
Please find enclosed a pledge card and a business reply envelope. If you have questions, please contact
Ellen Carter, Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Pittsburg State University,
Pittsburg, KS 66762; 620-235-4930 or [email protected].
Thank you for considering this request. We hope you continue to enjoy The Midwest Quarterly.
The Midwest Quarterly Board of EditorsDr. Casie Hermansson, Editor-in-Chief
Ms Lori Baker Martin, Poetry EditorDr. Tim Bailey, Geography
Dr. Maeve Cummings, Management Information Systems
Dr. Tim Flood, Mathematics
Dr. John Daley, History
Dr. Paul McCallum, Literature
Dr. Serif Uran, Physics
Dr. Don Viney, Philosophy
Dr. Stephen MeatsStephen Meats served as Poetry Editor of The Midwest Quarterly
from 1985 until 2016. He has published one book of poems,
Looking for the Pale Eagle(Woodley Press, 1993; 2nd edition,
Mammoth Publications, 2013), and one mixed genre book
of poems and stories, Dark Dove Descending and Other Parables
(Mammoth Publications, 2012). His poems have appeared
in print or online in UT Review, Florida Arts Gazette, Midwest
Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Little Balkans Review,Albatross, The
Quarterly, Laurel Review, Widener Review, Blue Unicorn, Flint
Hills Review, Dos Passos Review, Prairie Poetry, kansaspoets.com,
Kansas Arts Commission Ad Astra Poetry Project, 150
Kansas Poems, Kansas Time + Place, and other journals,
and in the anthologiesA White Voice Rides a Horse(1979),AnAnthology of American Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry(1985,
1986),Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems(2011), and To the Stars
Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga(2012). Dr. Meats has also
published several works of short fiction as well as numerous
scholarly articles, editions, and reviews, including nearly
two dozen articles for the online reference work, The Literary
Encyclopedia, on the lives and works of Faulkner, Whitman,
William Gilmore Simms, Henry William Herbert, Mary
Boykin Chesnut, and other American writers. Dr. Meats
earned bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in American
and English literature from the University of South Carolina.
He taught at the U. S. Air Force Academy and the University
of Tampa before coming to Pittsburg State University in 1979.
In May 2014 he retired from Pittsburg State as Chairperson
Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of English and now lives with
his wife, Ann, in Florida.