Companion Poems Results
(Charlottesville, VA) … The Virginia Arts of the Book Center (www.virginiabookarts.org) is pleased to announce the winner of the Companion Poems contest: Cherryl Floyd-Miller of Clarkston, GA. Her poems “Voodoo Chicken” and “Snake Oil” will be published as a letterpress broadside and as a special selection of Poetry Daily (www.poems.com).
Entrants were encouraged to send two poems that worked together as poems and would complement each other on the printed page. Entries could include two poems by the same poet or collaborations between poets. Nearly 200 entries from all over the country were received.
Finalists for the prize included: Kristin Abraham (Morgantown, WV);Kelli Russell Agodon (Kingston, WA) & John Davis (Bainbridge Island, WA);Brenda Barrows (Richmond, VA); Jessica Bozek (Athens, GA);John Casteen (Earlysville, VA);Michael Chitwood (Chapel Hill, NC) & Tom Andrews (deceased);Luisa A. Igloria (Norfolk, VA);Roy Jacobstein (Chapel Hill, NC);Carey McHugh (New York, NY) & Lytton Smith (New York, NY); JoAnna Scandiffio (San Francisco, CA).
The Virginia Arts of the Book Center is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (www.virginiafoundation.org). Watch the VABC website for details about next spring’s competition, Belle Letters, a broadside contest seeking poems that investigate alphabetical letters. Deadline: June 1, 2007.
Go back to the guidelines for the contest
