SUBMISSION PERIOD NOW OPEN:
Perugia Press Prize
for a First or Second Book by a Woman
Prize: $1000 and publication
Entry must be submitted electronically
or postmarked no later than November 15, 2013.
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B E G I N E M P T Y - H A N D E D
by Gail Martin
Winner of the 2013 Perugia Press Prize
In her poetry, Gail Martin rides the hinge between the life expected and the reality of life in process. While she surrenders to hard truths—loss of parent, enduring marriage, daughters in trouble, for example—she changes the subject, she digresses, then she looks straight at the pain.
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Sometimes Night Is a Creek Too Wide to Leap
The sky wears black serge pants while
hemming up another pair for tomorrow
night. A bit shorter, but you won’t notice.
Some nights the blue pill brings a dream
where a young girl is trying not to cry
in the sheep pasture, stuck where her brothers
eyed the watery gap and mossy stones and sailed
to the other side. We didn’t know about E. coli
then, how our waders must have buzzed with it.
By the time I was ten, I’d pared my list of things
I was scared of down to four: the high board,
hoods and kidnappers, blue racers, and shaking
hands with Uncle John who’d lost four fingers
in the cornpicker. I pushed the scared parts of me
away, like the two finches my mother watched
nudge a dead fledgling off the edge of her deck.
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NEWS about The Wishing Tomb,
by Amanda Auchter
“Auchter reminds us ... that paradise isn’t a hidden place we will eventually discover. It’s a shelter we have to build against the violence of the world.” —Zone 3
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Susan looks at more than 500 manuscripts each year. She knows what affects how well a manuscript is received in a contest—from its physical presentation to the overall cohesiveness of the poetry. She offers a personal manuscript review service for individualized feedback on poetry manuscripts.
"Thanks again for a penetrating and valuable analysis. It felt absolutely on-target. I appreciate the time and thought you put into this and am taking your comments closely to heart.” —Rebecca Foust, November 2012
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