“Knockout recently established a new poetry contest, the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, to honor the life and work of highly acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd, who left us on September 10, 2008. For more information on Reginald Shepherd’s work, visit his blog at reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com. One of Shepherd’s previously unpublished poems will appear in Knockout #2.” (Pilfered from Poéfrika.)












