/ 2022 poetry prize / winner
ANNUAL KITW POETRY PRIZE
2022 WINNING CHAPBOOK
CHAMELEON SKY shimmers with the surreal that the last two years have held for the world, cradling loss and how we relate with everything, everyone, no matter where we are in a world that sometimes feels unsafe to enter. It's like the sky's transitioning from now to then: dense clouds one moment, sunlight before the vespertine another time, hope always mingled in the asperity.
AUTHOR
Sarah E N Kohrs is an artist and writer with over 85 publications in literary journals, including poetry in Claudius Speaks, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Cumberland River, Elevation Review, From the Depths, Poetry from the Valley of Virginia, Rattle, Raven Chronicles, Virginia Literary Journal, Watershed Review, West Trade Review, Wild Roof Journal, and, the winnow. Her poem, “When All the World,” was the 2021 recipient of Poetry Society of Virginia's Ekphrastic Poetry Award. Sarah has a BA in Classical Languages and Archaeology from College of Wooster, Ohio, and a Virginia teaching license endorsed in Latin and Visual Arts. Life experiences that bolster her art include homeschooling, creating pottery for local Empty Bowl suppers, volunteering as an Extension Office master gardener and for the Open Door Food Pantry, and serving as a board member of Valley Educational Center for the Creative Arts (VECCA). senkohrs.com.
