furious flower poetry prize 2026
Furious Flower invites submissions from emerging writers for its annual poetry prize. Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration.
2026 Judge: Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the award-winning author of six books of poetry. Jackson is the recipient of multiple fellowships, including fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Major Jackson has been awarded a multitude of prizes and has been honored by the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, TN where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in literature.