| Judge's Bio: Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation – separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books), Pink Waves (forthcoming, Omnidawn), The Ants (Les Figues Press), Texture Notes (Letter Machine Editions), and the translation of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Penguin Random House), as well as Mouth: Eats Color – Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (Rogue Factorial), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. She is co-editor, with Eric Selland, of an anthology of 20th Century Japanese Poetry (forthcoming, New Directions). She teaches at Brown University in the Department of Literary Arts. Guidelines: Please do not include any identifying information on your manuscript. No acknowledgments. Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. (Individual poems may have been published.) Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Multiple submissions to this contest are acceptable, but each submission requires an entry fee. Past or present close friends or students of the judge or the editors are not eligible to enter. Please do not submit revisions to your manuscript once it has been entered in the contest. Revisions are acceptable prior to publication. No citizenship requirements or limitations. While domestic subscriptions are included automatically with the contest, we're not able to cover the cost of international shipping with our contest fee. International entrants who would like to purchase a subscription at a discounted rate should contact us at for details. Translations are not eligible.
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