DR. KITSON NAMED INTERNATIONAL 

MERIT AWARD WINNER BY ATLANTA REVIEW

 

TITUSVILLE, Sept. 26 -- Dr. Herb Kitson, Professor of English and French at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, has received the International Merit Award in Poetry from the Atlanta Review.  This annual award by Atlanta Review recognizes the top 50 poets worldwide.  

Kitson’s poem, “Needing a Bit of Heaven,” will appear in the October 2001 edition of the Atlanta Review.  All recipients of the Merit Awards will go on to compete for the Pushcart Poetry Prize.

Dan Veach, editor of the Atlanta Review, established the award in 1996 when the Olympics were held in Atlanta, Georgia, to provide an event in which poets could compete.  This year’s event included participants from over 120 countries.

In the competition, Kitson presented “Needing a Bit of Heaven” – delving into the Sisyphean struggle within teaching; “Cyber Death” – exploring the relationship between reality and virtual reality; and “Sturm Und Drang” (storm and stress) – reminiscing about the author’s high school senior prom.

Kitson, who also received a commendation in the Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition in 1999, has appeared in Black Dirt (formerly Farmer’s Market), Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, The Exchange, Heart, and Thorny Locust.  His work will appear this fall in the Dan River Anthology of Literature and in the King’s Estate Press Anthology of Literature.

 

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