We are pleased to announce the semi-finalists for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize

We are excited 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.

A Benign Sort of Cannibalism -- Lisa Haag Kang
A Woman Passing -- Ruth Holzer
All Roads Lead There -- Kate Hutchinson
Angels Kept Her Feet -- Randy Michael Robinson
Anthems for a Sixteen Year Old Girl -- Emily Marquis
Apostrophes -- Katie Darby Mullins
Bright Lives Broken -- Ace Baker
Charismata Canticle -- W.F. Lantry
Escape to Cyberspace -- Gary Beck
Everyday Love -- Peggy Trojan
Flux Lines -- John C.  Mannone
Gift Snake -- Nina Forsythe
Grace Notes -- Jane Ebihara
Life's Epiphanies -- Angela E. Sarumi
Midwest Science and Poetry Through a Family -- Joyce Frohn
Modern Farming and Other Changes -- Steve Broidy
Music from a Farther Room -- Barbra Nightingale
My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto -- Steve Klepetar
Negative Splits -- Jennifer Marshall Lagedrost
Old News: The Bond Between My Father and Me -- Eva M. Schlesinger
Pulchritude in All Directions -- Don Shook
Ripe -- by Gina Marie Mammano
Sawing a Lady in Half -- Lee Schwartz
Skeletons in the Closet -- Mara Ferguson
Spectrum -- Darrell Lindsey
Splitting the Velvet Dark -- Elaine Mott
That Orangutan Can Sing the Blues -- Alvaro Salinas, Jr.
The Book of Nin -- Joseph Kayne
The Crone at the Cathedral -- Janet McCann
The Edge of Death -- Thea Iberall
The Edge of Never -- Martin Willitts, Jr.
The First Arts -- Tom Holmes
The Flash before the Shadow -- George Such
The Little Blue Hut -- Nancy Charley
The Notion of Wings -- Sally Albiso
The Queen of Flight -- Denise Grier
The Stairs -- Betty Lipton
The Starving Artist and Other Poems -- Michael Nicholson
Tricks of Light -- Issa Lewis
Where Jewish Grandmothers Come From -- Debra Winegarten
Xing: Poems of Movement -- Shauna Osborn