Thursday, August 30, 2012

Announcing the semi-finalists for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize

We are so pleased to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.

Semi-finalists, keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected within two weeks, and we need to be certain these three poets are available to accept their publishing contract upon winning.

Congratulations, poets.

Ain't I a Woman -- Ellaraine Lockie
Between a River and the Sea -- Jonathan Veach
Bodily Knowledge -- Brenda Yates
Brie Season -- Jen Karetnick
Busting the Beautiful Cage -- Paul David Adkins
Cricket Song, Autumn Lawns -- Cathy Larson Sky
Dip in the road -- Gail Eisenhart
Don't Forget Me -- S.K. Rhee
East Main Aviary -- Leigh Anne Hornfeldt
Family Sonata -- Lynne Francis
Freelance Zealot -- Matthue Roth
Heart-Shaped Bed in Hiroshima -- Heather Kirn Lanier
Independent City -- Jennifer Tappenden
Just Born -- Sarah Endo
Learning to Love Louisiana -- Elizabeth Burk
My Body, Broken for You -- Ace Baker
November Father -- Rick Marlatt
Path of Concern -- Corey Ginsberg
Pulchritude in All Directions -- Don Shook
Red State Epistles -- Alison Pelegrin
Seven Times to Leave -- Jeannette Angell
Survival and Other Poems -- Savannah Thorne
The Fifteenth Station -- Erik K Mortenson
The First Arts -- Tom Holmes
The Girl Who Came Back -- Meg Eden
The Senses of Place -- Monty Joynes
The Soundness of Broken Pieces -- Lucie Winborne
To That Mythic Country Called Closure -- -M-
Where the Body Lives -- George Such