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2022 POETRY PRIZE WINNER
CHAMELEON SKY
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.
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Sarah E N Kohrs is an artist and writer with over 90 publications in literary journals, including poetry in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Cumberland River, Elevation Review, From the Depths, & others.Her “Along the James” won Virginia Conservation Network's Our Common Agenda 2021 photo contest; and, “When All the World” was the 2021 recipient of Poetry Society of Virginia's Ekphrastic Poetry Award.
2020 POETRY PRIZE WINNER
DARK WHEN IT GETS DARK
DARK WHEN IT GETS DARK— is about desire, about gentleness and grief. The poems think in colors, in shapes, in moods. They think about water, and love & hands. The collection also speaks to something of honesty, of truth, to the absence of duplicity. — YVES OLADE
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YVES OLADE is an ancient history graduate and insomniac who lives on the south coast of England. He's been featured in Kingdoms in the Wild, Glass, The Ellis Review, and the Rising Phoenix Review. He recently became a runner up in the What Are Birds? Transpoetics prize. An avid documentary fan, he loves mobile games, evenings & lemonade.
2019 POETRY PRIZE WINNER
ALL OF US ARE BIRDS & SOME OF US HAVE BROKEN WINGS
I think it’s an important act of resistance to grieve something you've never seen—to witness, record & recite a projection that we have not experienced. I do hope at some level, the reader can connect with the poems, or find things that resonates with them on a human level—OJO TAIYE
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OJO TAIYE is a young Nigerian poet. In the winning chapbook All of Us Are Birds & Some of Us Have Broken Wings, Ojo Taiye utilizes the elegy in the inquisition of identity, heritage, mental health, language and memory.
2018 POETRY PRIZE WINNER
ROOTS GREW WILD
In Roots Grew Wild Erica Hoffmeister tells the story of a Midwestern family through the perspective of the eldest daughter. Driving the telling in prose poetry is a crisp and distinct voice that lays bare relationships between mother and daughter, father and daughter, as well as the relationship between sisters.
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