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Upcoming Contests

2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest (Accepting Submissions until  July 31, 2010)

2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest Finalists announced below!

2010 Collins Poetry Residency (Accepting Submissions July 15)

 

The Midwest Writing Center Announces
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
Winners

Congratulations to the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest Winners!


First Place, National Contest
Aaron Patrick Flanagan, Make yr peace; say yr goodbyes

First Place, Regional Contest
Brett Foster, Theater of Cruelty

Second Place, National Contest
Aaron Patrick Flanagan, Not a ghost story

Second Place, Regional Contest
Sue Howell, Balloons

Third Place, National Contest
E. Tammy Kim, Evanescence

Third Place, Regional Contest
Brett Foster, This Dear Geography
 

 

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National Finalists:

 

Aaron Patrick Flanagan:  "Passing On," "Not a Ghost Story" and "Make yr peace; say yr goodbyes."

 
Marci Ameluxen:  "I Dreamed I Was the Egg," "Rain, Northwest Meaning," and "Last Visit with My Mother."

 

Deborah DeNicola:  "The Glass Darkly," and "From Santa Barbara."

 
Julia Meylor Simpson:  "Lost Children of the Prairie."

 

E.P. Schultz: "Thetis' Uncovered Guilt of Achilles' Heel" and "Under the Covers of Colossus."

 

Lois Parker Edstrom:  "Wellington Train Disaster."

 

Lynn Veach Sadler:  "Homeless."

 

Brooks Carver:  "Change of Seasons."

 

Joanne Lowery:  "Satan's Song" and "Nutcracker."

 

James K. Zimmerman:  "Sparrow Logic."

 

Salvatore Marici:  "Eve" and "Witness Crossing the Threshold."

 

Valerie Wallace:  "The Fawn" and "American Grace."

 
Carol Carpenter:  "What the Old Woman Sees from Her Frosted Window."

 

Richard Ilnicki:  "Primordial congealed fossilized."

 

E.Tammy Kim:  "Evanescence."

 

Catherine Moran:  "To remember the crossing."

 

Regional Finalists

 

Amie Whittemore: "The Problem of Naming."

 

Dallas Crow:  "Why I Am Not Frank O'Hara."

 

Susan Solomon:  "They Come and Go at Will" and "Fold."

 

Jacob Boyd:  "After the Ruined Birthday Party," "Lines Written Along the Fox River," and "Driving Drunk."

 

Sue Howell:  "Balloons," "Farmers Market, September," and "Odyssey Touring."

 

Kate Hutchinson:  "Scatter, Scatter (a double abecedarian)," "Metaphoric at 50," and "Trajectory."

 

E.P. Schultz:  "I Look for Signs."

 

Catherine Jagoe:  "Solstice Under Snow."

 

Brett Foster:  "Theater of Cruelty" and "This Dear Geography." 

 

Heather Derr-Smith:  "Thrown," "Shelter" and "Flood Aftermath."

 

Teddy Norris:  "Since Lucia's Been Gone."

 

Gail Goepfert:  "let nothing disentangle."

 

Gayle Rein: "A Solace of Sorts."

 

Joan Johannes:  "From Cradle Too."

 

Julia Gordon-Bramer:  "Pluto Will Always Be a Planet to Me."

 

 

 

 



This contest is sponsored in part by Ashford University.

 




 


 

 
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