The annual Spenserian Stanza Competition fosters and recognizes student excellence in the writing of Spenserian stanzas, and is jointly sponsored by the Edmund Spenser Home Page, the Spenser Review, and the International Spenser Society. In 2007 the competition will be judged by Theresa M. Krier, professor at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota, and author of Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision and Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. For more information on Spenserian stanzas, or on the competition, please select from the links below.     Find out more about the Spenserian stanza: its formal features, its poetical capacities, its history, and its relevance to English poetry today   View details of this year's competition, including particulars on submission, judging, and the award.   Read more about the history of this competition, learn about past winners, and read their entries.

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