2011 Robert Watson Poetry Award Finalists

The 2011 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, A. Van Jordan, selected the winner from 9 finalists:

Susan Brennan, Water on the Moon
Jesse Carty, Amateur Marriage
Temple Cone, Ecologue of Wonder
Jeanne Staufer Merle, Here in the Ice House
Heather Ross Miller, The 21 Confessions of Syvie Ann
Jill Osier, Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White
Jill Osier, The Solace is Not the Lullaby
John Pineda, Vole Clock
Maureen Sherbondy, The Year of Dead Fathers (Winner)

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


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