 Okay, y'all. Be prepared. These blogs are gonna be filled with my stream of consciousness and I'm determined to just say things and not worry about things like editing and making it perfect. I do that way too much in my writing life and part of what I'm trying to show with this prize is the actual expenditure of time, labour, financial costs on all ends. So cutting the bureaucracy and the "gloss" of making things perfect, I'm going to dedicate my time to what matters, which is the community and the poets themselves. Meanwhile you can sit back and get a sense of the relatively unfiltered stuff that comes out of Isabella's head as I type.
Picking a winner, I've thought a lot about how to do this for the top prize winner and also the winner of the Graffin--an outstanding book of poetry published in French. By now I've sat on quite a few juries for poetry book prizes and literary organizations, so okay on one end this is Isabella starting this random prize because 1) I'm bored though I don't have time; 2) I can and I love this thing called free-will; 3) I am curious of the directions a prize like this can go. What does it mean to break existing frameworks and set new precedents? Hit obstacles and figure it out along the way? To experiment? That said--I do know a bit of what I'm doing okay, from the experience of being on past juries. Having reflected on these experiences, I'm going to share some of the obstacles I see myself facing with this prize, and well, propose some ways to do this and you can tell me what you think.
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