The New Formalist was a United States–based literary periodical published (since 2001) monthly in electronic form and once a year in print form. Distributed by The New Formalist Press and edited by Leo Yankevich , it published many of the leading formal poets writing in English today. The magazine ceased publication in 2010.
11-465: Published poets included Jared Carter , Keith Holyoak , Alfred Dorn , T. S. Kerrigan , Richard T. Moore , and Frederick Turner . The New Formalist also publishes The New Formalist E-book Series. This article about a literary magazine published in the US is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
22-783: A competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book. It has been described as "a transformative honor that includes publication and distribution of the book though the Academy, $ 5,000 in cash and an all-expenses-paid [six-week] residency" at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy. The Library of Congress includes the Walt Whitman Award among distinctions noted for poets, as does The New York Times , which also occasionally publishes articles about new awards. The award
33-571: The Battle of Midway he was awarded three bronze stars. On his father's side, Carter is a grand-nephew of the American artist Glen Cooper Henshaw. Carter writes in free verse and in traditional forms. Much of his early work is set in "Mississinewa County", an imaginary place that includes the actual Mississinewa River , a tributary of the Wabash River . In recent years, as he has published increasingly on
44-562: The 1960s, he made his home in Indianapolis , where he has lived since 1969. He worked for many years as an editor and interior designer of textbooks and scholarly works, first with the Bobbs-Merrill Company and later in association with Hackett Publishing Company . He is a fifth-generation Hoosier, descended from anti-slavery North Carolinians and Virginians who migrated to Indiana in the decades following its establishment in 1816 as
55-800: The Rain (1993), was given the Poets' Prize . He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts , a Guggenheim Fellowship , and the Indiana Governor's Arts Award. List of winners of the Walt Whitman Award The Walt Whitman Award is a poetry award administered by the Academy of American Poets . Named after poet Walt Whitman , the award is based on
66-755: The Sea from Atlanta to Savannah and points north, in 1864-65. During the Second World War, Carter's father, Robert A. Carter, served with the Seabees from 1943 to 1945, and took part in the construction of airstrips for B-29s on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas . Carter's father-in-law, David P. Haston, was a technician with a B-17 flight wing in the Pacific during that conflict, serving from 1941 to 1945. For his participation in
77-475: The article's talk page . Jared Carter (poet) Jared Carter (born January 10, 1939) is an American poet and editor. Carter was born in a small Midwestern town that is noted for having been the birthplace of Wendell Willkie , the Republican presidential candidate in 1940. Carter grew up in the shadow of this liberal Republican dark horse who lost the election to the incumbent Roosevelt, but who supported
88-412: The nineteenth state. Several of his poems include details taken from the letters, journals, and family stories of his predecessors. Among forebears on his mother's side was Elias Baxter Decker, of Tipton County, Indiana , who fought at Tullahoma , Chickamauga , and Missionary Ridge , and who served with the 75th Indiana Infantry Regiment in the army led by William Tecumseh Sherman , on its March to
99-454: The president in calls for preparedness while storm clouds were gathering over Europe. Carter lettered in three sports in high school and still holds his school's record for the 400 meter dash . Following graduation in 1956, he attended Yale and, in later years, Goddard College . At Yale he majored in English literature; at Goddard, American history. After military service and travel abroad in
110-687: The web, his poetry has ranged farther afield. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker , The Nation , Poetry , and other journals in the U.S. and abroad. His work has been anthologized in Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry, Writing Poems, and Poetry from Paradise Valley. His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming (1981), won the Walt Whitman Award . His second, After
121-517: Was established in 1975. In a New York Times opinion piece from 1985, the novelist John Barth noted that 1475 manuscripts had been entered into one of the Whitman Award competitions, which exceeded the number of subscribers to some poetry journals. Since 1992, Louisiana State University Press has published each volume as part of its "Walt Whitman Award Series"; the Academy purchases and distributes copies to its associate members, along with copies of
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