The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepts one-poem submissions and honors poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly eighteen years. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame who left behind nine books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, four children’s books, five anthologies, a bestselling academic novel, a translation of Goethe’s Faust, Part I, and a translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, produced on Broadway by The Actors’ Studio.
The 2022 competition was judged by poet and novelist, Maria Hummel.
Winner: Consider the word pursuit on the Winter Solstice by John Haugh
Runner-Up: Madras by Aruna Gurumurthy
Honorable Mentions: asymptomatic by Vivian Bikulege | Michael by Jeff Miles
Jeff Towne was a kind of ex-officio member of the UNCG MFA Program for over thirty years. A graduate of the University of Ohio and Stanford, Jeff recognized in the MFA Program in Creative Writing the creative collegiality that he associated with an excellent education. For many years, his properties on Carr Street in the College Hill neighborhood served as a nexus for MFA Program off-campus activities where he provided affordable housing for numerous students including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson as well as current and former storySouth editors Dan Albergotti, Matt Fiander, Julie Funderburk, Cynthia Nearman, Drew Perry, Andrew Saulters, and Kathryn Walker.
Plein Air for the Kind Landlord of Poets by David Blair
933A Carr Street, Greensboro, NC by Warren Rochelle