English Professor Wins Poetry Award

As part of the Poetry Society of Virginia’s annual awards, Poet Laureate Luisa Iglora has selected Jay Udall (WO-professor of English) as winner of the Emma Gray Trigg Memorial Poetry Prize for his poem, “To Uncertainty.” Udall also has poems appearing in current or upcoming issues of Visions International, William & Mary Review, Water~Stone Review, Fourteen Hills, Sangam and San Pedro River Review. He has authored six books of poetry, most recently Because a Fire in Our Heads, winner of the 2017 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.

Submitted by:
Jay Udall, WO-English, JUdall@nvcc.edu