We are very happy to announce that Jack Christian’s manuscript “Family System” was selected by final judge Elizabeth Willis as the winner of the 2012 Colorado Prize for Poetry. There were more than 650 entries. The book will be published by the Center for Literary Publishing in November 2012 and distributed by the University Press of Colorado.

Jack Christian’s poems have appeared in such journals as Jubilat, Mississippi Review, Web Conjunctions, Meridian, Diagram, Phoebe, Cimarron Review, and Black Warrior Review. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and teaches at Westfield State University.