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Read the winning poems from our 2008 Poetry Contest here:
Winning Work
Winners of the 2008 Poetry Contest, judged by Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz, are:
First Prize:
Lisa Rosen
Eugene, Oregon
for "Agoraphobia"
Lisa Rosen is a part time instructor at the local community college. Her poems have appeared in "Poetry East," "Kaleidoscope,"
and "Gertrude," among other journals, and have also been anthologized in "The Best of Bellevue Literary Review" and "A Chaos
of Angels." Her new chapbook by Traprock Press is entitled, "Bright Omens." She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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Second and Third Prizes:
Becky Dennison Sakellariou
Euboia, Greece
for
"Crossing" and "Traveling North," respectively
Becky Dennison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England and lived much of her adult life in Greece. She is now “making
her way home” to New Hampshire to settle for at least half of each year. A teacher and mediator/counselor, she has
recently published in White Pelican Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and Common Ground Review. Nominated for the Pushcart Poetry
Prize twice, she also won first prize in the 2005 Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest for her chapbook, The Importance of Bone.
At present she is madly in love with her three grandchildren and can be found either in Peterborough, NH where she is amazed
at the clouds and the trees or in Greece where she putters around on her one acre on the island of Euboia amongst the olive,
fig, almond, pomegranate, lemon, apricot and eucalyptus trees.
Fourth Prize:
Ginny Lowe Connors
West Hartford, Connecticut
for "Her Turn in the Desert"
Ginny Lowe Connors is the author of Barbarians in the Kitchen>/i> (Antrim House Books, 2005) and editor of three poetry
collections. Among her numerous poetry awards is the grand prize in Atlanta Review's International Poetry Competition.
A teacher in West Hartford, Connecticut, Connors was named "Poet of the Year" by the New England Association of Teachers of
English in 2003. Her poetry appears in many literary magazines and anthologies.
Honorable Mention:
Susanna Lang
Chicago, Illinois
for "Last Days"
Susanna Lang’s collection of poems, Even Now, is forthcoming in May 2008 from The Backwaters Press. She has
published original poems and essays, and translations from the French, in such journals as The Baltimore Review, Kalliope,
Chicago Review, New Directions, Green Mountains Review, Jubilat, and Rhino, winning a 1999 Illinois Arts Council
award for a poem published in The Spoon River Poetry Review. Her book publications include translations of Words
in Stone and The Origin of Language, both by Yves Bonnefoy. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago, where
she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools.
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