Jack Marshall Wins US and Canadian Competition

Results of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's annual United States and Canadian competition have been announced. Among the award winners is Perigee's April 2008 Featured Poet Jack Marshall.

Jack Marshall has published twelve books of poetry, of which Sesame, 1993, was awarded the PEN Center West Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Two other books, Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise, 1984, and Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, 1965-2001, each won a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. A collection of new poems, The Steel Veil, will be published by Coffee House Press in Fall, 2008. He has also published a memoir, From Baghdad to Brooklyn; Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, from Coffee House Press, 2005, which was voted a finalist for the PEN Center Award in Creative Non-Fiction. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.