Meet our Inaugural Poetry Contest judge, Ilya Kaminsky
What an abundance of exceptional poetry we received in our Inaugural Poetry Contest: thank you for sharing your work with us, and for making our task of selecting 20 finalist poems so difficult.
Winner
–Paraclete – The One Who Answers the Cry by Kristina Erny
Runners Up
–in the barely unbearable by Mark Conway
–You Are a Flash in This Young Night by Jamie Brunton
–Phonograph Mouth by Rebecca Keith
Honorable Mentions
–[How I Set Her Down] by Arra Ross
–Conversation With an Invisible Man by Jandy Nelson
Finalists
–Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite In Verse by Lillian Bertram
–Der Bär by Katherine Hollander
–On the Brink by George Kalamaras
–Trusting the Senses by Benjamin Landry
–Life Without Furniture by Sharon McDermott
–The Postcard She Wanted to Get by Wendy Miles
–Stars That Never Touch the Sea by Paul Nemser
–Book of Hendrix by Cheryl Passanisi
–American Enfield by Wesley Rothman
–Abel, Almost Asleep in the Field by Mark Wagenaar
–Plums by Mariano Zaro