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    If the Inquisition

    Had Come to CoffeeThe coffee was safe in its shaded cups, the grapes

    on the plate were snug in their cloudy skins

    when the evening sun like an iron bar

    levered open the end of the porch

    and hung its ruddy beacon where we sat.

    With this new light behind you, ever y word you spoke,

    every gesture you made showered sparks

    like meteors entering the atmosphere, and I saw

    that your head was a planet in her quarter phase

    and the moth circling your face was a moon.

    If the inquisitorial magistrates had been there to see you

    as I saw you then, I think the true relation of sun

    to earth and stars might have been revealed to them,

    and Galileo with his telescope and Jupiter and the mountains

    of the moon could with ease have balanced for the rest of us

    the forces of faith and reason in one peaceful orbit.

    Stephen Meats, Looking for the Pale Eagle(1993, 2014)

    THE

    Stephen MeatsPoetry Prize

    The Midwest Quarterly

    A Journal of Contemporary ThoughtPittsburg State University

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    The Stephen Meats Poetry PrizeIn April of this year, Stephen Meats will retire after thirty years as poetry editor of The Midwest Quarterly.

    In honor of his long service to poetry and to the journal, MQs Editorial Board is happy to announce

    that it is establishing The Stephen Meats Poetry Prize, which will award $500 to the author of the

    best poem published in the four issues (October, January, April, July) that make up each volume ofThe Midwest Quarterly. The competition will begin with the October, 2016 issue, and the first winner

    will be announced in October, 2017.

    Initially, the $500 prize will be funded jointly by The Midwest Quarterlyand the Pittsburg State

    University College of Arts & Sciences, but in the longer term, the MQBoard plans to establish

    a permanent endowment in the Pittsburg State University Foundation not only to help fund the

    Prize, but also to support the winners travel expenses to Pittsburg State to give a poetry reading in

    conjunction with the presentation of the Prize.

    Thats why the Board is reaching out to you, as one of the more than 800 poets Dr. Meats published

    in MQduring his tenure as poetry editor. Would you consider making a contribution to help build apermanent endowment in support of the Meats Poetry Prize?

    Please find enclosed a pledge card and a business reply envelope. If you have questions, please contact

    Ellen Carter, Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Pittsburg State University,

    Pittsburg, KS 66762; 620-235-4930 or [email protected].

    Thank you for considering this request. We hope you continue to enjoy The Midwest Quarterly.

    The Midwest Quarterly Board of EditorsDr. Casie Hermansson, Editor-in-Chief

    Ms Lori Baker Martin, Poetry EditorDr. Tim Bailey, Geography

    Dr. Maeve Cummings, Management Information Systems

    Dr. Tim Flood, Mathematics

    Dr. John Daley, History

    Dr. Paul McCallum, Literature

    Dr. Serif Uran, Physics

    Dr. Don Viney, Philosophy

    Dr. Stephen MeatsStephen Meats served as Poetry Editor of The Midwest Quarterly

    from 1985 until 2016. He has published one book of poems,

    Looking for the Pale Eagle(Woodley Press, 1993; 2nd edition,

    Mammoth Publications, 2013), and one mixed genre book

    of poems and stories, Dark Dove Descending and Other Parables

    (Mammoth Publications, 2012). His poems have appeared

    in print or online in UT Review, Florida Arts Gazette, Midwest

    Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Little Balkans Review,Albatross, The

    Quarterly, Laurel Review, Widener Review, Blue Unicorn, Flint

    Hills Review, Dos Passos Review, Prairie Poetry, kansaspoets.com,

    Kansas Arts Commission Ad Astra Poetry Project, 150

    Kansas Poems, Kansas Time + Place, and other journals,

    and in the anthologiesA White Voice Rides a Horse(1979),AnAnthology of American Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry(1985,

    1986),Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems(2011), and To the Stars

    Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga(2012). Dr. Meats has also

    published several works of short fiction as well as numerous

    scholarly articles, editions, and reviews, including nearly

    two dozen articles for the online reference work, The Literary

    Encyclopedia, on the lives and works of Faulkner, Whitman,

    William Gilmore Simms, Henry William Herbert, Mary

    Boykin Chesnut, and other American writers. Dr. Meats

    earned bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in American

    and English literature from the University of South Carolina.

    He taught at the U. S. Air Force Academy and the University

    of Tampa before coming to Pittsburg State University in 1979.

    In May 2014 he retired from Pittsburg State as Chairperson

    Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of English and now lives with

    his wife, Ann, in Florida.