The National Book Foundation (NBF) announced today that among the winners of its Innovations in Reading Prizes [2] is Cellpoems, a poetry journal distributed via text message. The journal, which accepts submissions [3] online and, naturally, via text message, will receive a twenty-five-hundred-dollar grant to continue, in the words of NBF's director of programs Leslie Shipman, "using technology in a surprising and innovative way to make poetry a part of people’s daily lives."

Details on how to submit and how to receive the journal—which readers can also follow on Twitter—are available on the Cellpoems Web site [4].

Other 2010 Innovations in Reading winners are 826 Valencia, the San Francisco branch of 826 National [5]'s network of nonprofit literary centers; Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop for teenage boys incarcerated in Washington, D.C.; Mount Olive Baptist Church in rural South Carolina, which established a community children's library; and United Through Reading, a program assists parents who are separated from their children in creating DVD recordings of storybook readings.