St. Louis Poetry Center 2010 Contest Winners
The St Louis Poetry Center is pleased to announce the 2010 winners of its contests.
Please join us on Sunday, May 16th for the 51st Annual Concert of Poems, featuring all the winning poets, at Duane Reed Gallery on McPherson in the Central West End, 1:30 - 3:30 pm.
The James H. Nash Members Only Poetry Contest
Winners:
1st Catherine Rankovic “Submarine Movie”
2nd gaye gambell-peterson “Overlapping Voices”
3rd Judith Saul Stix “On Valentine’s Day”
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order by poet):
John Hicks “The Squid Vendor”
Maurice L. Hirsch, Jr. “Tropic of Cancer”
Peggy Hapke Lewis “My Mother Stays with the Deer”
Karen Smead Mondale “When is Now, Variation 06”
The contest was judged by James Arthur whose first book of poetry, Charms Against Lightning, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. His poems have appeared or will appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Narrative, and Ploughshares. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize, as well as residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sacatar Foundation.
Winners will be honored at the 51st Poetry Concert, where they will read their winning poems and receive their awards. The event will take place May 16, at the Duane Reed Gallery, 1:00 pm. It is free and open to the public. Winners of the Beverly Hopkins Poetry Contest for High School Students and the Stanley Hanks Contest for best poem by a Missouri poet in a Missouri magazine will also be reading and receive their awards at the Concert.
The Stanley Hanks Contest for a Missouri Poet in a Missouri Magazine winners:
1st place "Rise That We all May Rise", by Maud Kelly published in NATURAL BRIDGE, editor Mary Troy, guest editor John Dalton
2nd place, "Glory On," by Carl Phillips published in BOULEVARD, managing editor Ed deChasca
The Stanley Hanks judge this year was David Ray.
David Ray is author of 22 books including Music of Time: Selected and New Poems, After Tagore, and a memoir called The Endless Search. He has received many honors for his writing including The William Carlos Williams Award and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Award, and Pulitzer Prize nominations.
David has been an editor of three literary journals and was founding editor of New Letters On The Air, an N.P.R. program devoted to poetry, as well as of several anthologies, including Fathers: A Collection of Poems and From A to Z: 200 American Poets.
The Beverly Hopkins Memorial High School Contest
Winners:
1st Kevin Hess with "Bat Boy," Saint Louis Priory School
2nd Laura Williams with "Surviving an Earthquake," St. Dominic High School
3rd Brandon Wehking with "McDonald's for Lunch," Saint Louis Priory School
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order by poet)
Seve Esparrago, "Without Sleep I'd Go Crazy"
Katie Essig, "When Overwhelmed and Wanting OUT!"
and "A Reluctant Confession"
Mallory Jansen, "I Remember"
Emily Maassen, "The Judgment"
Sally Van Doren was this year's judge for the High School Contest. Her prize-winning poems have appeared in many national literary journals, among them Barrow Street, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review and Colorado Review. A graduate of Princeton University, she teaches creative writing in the St. Louis Public Schools. She holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She coordinates the St. Louis Poetry Center's Sunday Workshop/Critiques which provide local and national poets of prominence as instructors in a monthly workshop setting for local poets.
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