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2009 Robert Watson Poetry Award Finalists

The 2009 Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook competition received over 200 entries. Each manuscript was read by at least two different editors from Spring Garden Press before the final judge, Camille Dungy, selected the winner from 19 finalists:

Robin Becker, Decepetive Cadence
Nancy Naomi Carlson, The Harpist Wore Teal
Weston Cutter, Tender
Heidi Czerwiec, Threnody
James Harms, Parade of Shadows
Kathleen Kirk, Nocturnes
Annie Lighthart, The Flower and the Burning (Honorable Mention)
Heather Ross Miller, Wintry Mix
Benjamin Miller, Toward an Art of Flow and Hone (First Runner-up)
Tony Morris, Until No More Could Be Forgotten
Tanya Olson, Absolutely A Particle, Absolutely A Wave
Alison Pelegrin, Katrina Scribendi
Charlotte Pence, Variations
Jay Rogoff, Twenty Danses Macabres (Winner)
Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, House like a Face on Fire
Jeffrey Skinner, Give Me Poland
Brian Teare, Black Sun Crown (Honorable Mention)
Matthew Thorburn, To the Net Master

Benjamin Vogt, Without Such Absence

Click here for information on how to submit your chapbook to next year's competition.