We're pleased to announce the 10 finalists for our 2011 Vivienne Haigh-Wood Prize for a single poem. The prize winner will receive $500 and the winning poem will appear in our Spring/Summer 2011 issue, out next month. The second and third place poems will also appear in a special section of the issue, and all non-winning finalists will be listed there as honorable mentions. Finalists will be notified of the status of their entries shortly before the issue appears. Congrats and good luck to all!
*Finalists are listed in alphabetical order by name.
Lou Amyx: Roses
Connie Boyle: An Inheritance
Pat Hurshell: Elegy (in 3 movements)
Pat Hurshell: Leda Tells It Again
Tomasz Mielcarek: I Was Waiting For You
Jenny Sanders: Mama's Little Heartbreaker
Lorraine Schein: The Hanged Woman
Lorraine Schein: The Lady in the Lake
N. A’Yara Stein: For the Rest of Our Lives, That Far Place Waits
Julie Stuckey: Watching the Door