Fine Art Dean Releases Award-Winning Poetry Collection

Dean of the School of Art and Fine Arts Professor Mara Adamitz Scrupe’s award-winning new poetry collection Eat the Marrow has just been released by U.K. publisher erbacce-press. 

Scrupe's manuscript was chosen from over 8,000 international entries as first runner-up for the prestigious annual Erbacce Prize for Poetry. 

A release and launch, including a reading and signing event for Eat the Marrow, will be held at Blackwell Bookstore in Manchester, England, later this spring. 

Scrupe has also been invited to read at the launch party for the Hippocrates Poetry Prize Ten Year Anthology in London on March 25. Her poem “Excision” was named third runner-up in the competition in 2019.

Scrupe’s poem “Nancy’s Soliloquy/Dr. Lightfoot’s Law of Dynamic Overlap/Ivy Hill Plantation 1853” was named first runner-up for the Founders Prize from Rhino, an art and literature magazine. Additionally, three of her poems have also been selected to be published in Sixty Four Best Poets of 2019 by Black Mountain Press and the Halcyon magazine editorial staff.

Additionally, Scrupe’s poems will appear in the next few months in the following literary journals and magazines not mentioned above:

• “Stone-on-Stone,” Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 53.1, 2020
• “The Better Desires,” Yemassee Issue 26.2, 2020
• The Trackers Tale, We are a many-bodied singing thing, Speculative fiction and poetry inspired by endangered species and the people saving them, anthology from Back from the Brink, U.K., 2020
• Eschatology in the Bandit Territory and Hymn for the Habit of Being, New Rivers anthology Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose, 2020
• “Letting in Daylight,” Sequestrum Editor’s Reprint Award, Sequestrum Journal, 2020

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