THE WILLOW RUN POETRY BOOK AWARD
This is the list of the semi-finalists, finalists and winner of the 2018 Willow Run Poetry Book Award, which is our inaugural cycle for this award. The next round of submissions for the Willow Run Award deadlines June 10, 2019. The guidelines for the Willow Run Award can be found here.
Our winner is Carol Tyx, for her wonderful poetry collection about a prisoner uprising at the Angola Prison (more detail coming about Carol and her work shortly!), Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History
We want to congratulate Carol, who will receive $1,000 in prize money, and whose winning manuscript will be published by Hidden River Press, an imprint of Hidden River Publishing.
We also want to thank all our poets, who entrusted us with their work. You are all making remarkable, magical creative work, and our world is a better place because of it!
Semi-finalists
Allbritain, Deborah, San Diego, California, The Bluff at Road’s End
Andrea, Jennifer, El Cerrito, California, Keşke
Bowers, John, Ithaca, New York, Generation
Caplin, Abby, San Fransisco, California, It’s a Wet Rich Poor Sick Beautiful World
DeNicola, Deborah, Margate, Florida, The Lure
Dewoody, Dale, Shawnee, Oklahoma, Highway Mirage
Ducker, Bruce, Denver, Colorado, Some Friends of Mine
Emerson, C.W., Los Angeles, California, Luminous Body, Glittering Ash
Evans, Anna, Richmond, Virginia, Between What Disappeared
Fleming, Deborah, Perrysville, Ohio, Earthrise
Greenhause, Jonathan, Jersey City, New Jersey, “Our Problem, too, Bear”
Griffin, Shaun, Virginia City, Nevada, The Monastery of Stars
Heath, William, Frederick, Maryland, Walkabout
Hettich, Michael, Black Mountain, North Carolina, To Start An Orchard
Jang, Deborah, Denver, Colorado, Float True
Kumar, Lavinia, Plainsboro, New Jersey, Corresponding with the Otherworld
Lanza, Carmela, Gallup, New Mexico, I Had Left Even Their Spirits Behind Me
Machan, Katharyn, Ithaca, New York, Fox
Mackey, Matthew, Aurora, Colorado, The Moon and Nothing Else
McGuffin, Jane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Page is Half Full
Miller, John, Lexington, Virginia, Working With a First and Second Language
Moeller, Eileen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Glass
Morant, Daisy, St. Catharines, Ontario, Nemo
Northerns, Janice, Liberal, Kansas, Breaking City Ordinances
Palacio, Harry, Mount Kisco, New York, Ambrosia
Pobo, Kenneth, Media, Pennsylvania, Uneven Steven
Repp, John, Erie, Pennsylvania, Summer Mornings in the Waning Days of Empire
Richards, Page, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, How I Learned to Drink Coffee
Robbins, Liz, St. Augustine, Florida, Nets Full of Breath
Stanton, Joseph, Aiea, Hawaii, Wild in the Backyards of Oahu
Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, California, Dear Sally
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History
Ulloa, Edgar, Washington, D.C., War-X
Weingart, Arne, Chicago, Illinois, Dolmens, Menhirs, Cromlechs
White, Joanna, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Drumskin and Bones
Wyatt, Charles, Nashville, Tennessee, 3×6: Caprices
Finalists
Andrea, Jennifer, El Cerrito, California, Keşke
Bowers, John, Ithaca, New York, Generation
DeNicola, Deborah, Margate, Florida, The Lure
Lanza, Carmela, Gallup, New Mexico, I Had Left Even Their Spirits Behind Me
Moeller, Eileen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Glass
Nash, Amy, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Take No Prisoners Hotel
Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, California, Dear Sally
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History
Winner
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History
