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Professor Michael Nicholson of McGill University\u2019s Department of English and co-director of the Montreal International Poetry Prize<\/strong><\/a> wrote to Lone Star Lit this week to make sure Texas poets are aware of the upcoming entry deadline of June 1, 2020. <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cBy accepting entries through an online application, organizing open-access poetry readings via Zoom, and publishing a global anthology (online and in print), the prize is reimagining poetry in a digital space,\u201d says Nicholson.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Montreal Prize, initially founded with assistance from Leonard Cohen, has this year been transferred to McGill University\u2019s Department of English in Montreal, Canada. The prize awards $20,000 CAD to the writer of a single poem of forty or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics select a shortlist of fifty poems, from which a judge chooses one winning poem. The shortlist of fifty poems is published in The Global Poetry Anthology<\/em>, which will be published by V\u00e9hicule Press in Montreal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n More than 1,700 entries from fifty-three countries have already been received. Multiple submissions are allowed. The entry fee is $25 CAD (additional entries are $17 CAD). The prize\u2019s cash award is crowdfunded from entry fees, and its digital application allows entrants to donate an entry fee to an unknown poet who cannot otherwise afford to enter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n