We at Floating Bridge Press are so excited to partner with the Allied Arts Foundation to bring you the Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award. Thanks to their generous support this annual award will provide $250 to the single best poem submitted to our Evergreen Award Tour!

The Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award is an annual award funded by the Allied Arts Foundation. Each year Floating Bridge Press’s editorial team will choose poems from the submissions to our Evergreen Award Tour to pass on to an independent judge who will choose a winning poem. The winning poet will receive $250 and our hearty applause.

The judge for the 2018 Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award is award-winning poet and Hugo House instructor, Keetje Kuipers. Keetje Kuipers is the author of two collections of poetry. Beautiful in the Mouth (BOA Editions) was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets & Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail(BOA 2014), was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in poetry and was a book club selection for The Rumpus. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, Orion, and the anthology Best American Poetry

Many thanks to the Allied Arts Foundation for sponsoring this award and bringing more poetry into the world.