Matt Rasmussen wins the Holmes poetry prize

The Gustavus Adolphus professor was a finalist for a 2013 National Book Award.

April 2, 2015 at 5:17PM
Matt Rasmussen
Matt Rasmussen (Randy Salas/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Minnesota poet Matt Rasmussen has won the Theodore H. Holmes and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize from the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Rasmussen, visiting professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, grew up in International Falls and now lives in Robbinsdale. He has received grants and residencies from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, Yaddo, and elsewhere. His first collection, "Black Aperture," published by Louisiana State University Press, won the Walt Whitman Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award.

The Holmes prize carries an award of $5,000.

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