Full List of Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize Recognitions
With so many submissions, the work of choosing the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize semifinalists was quite the task for our poetry team. Thanks again to Jericho Brown for his careful selections of the finalists and winner of this year's contest.
See the full list of those recognized by this year's Prize below!
WINNER
Margot Kahn "Winter"
"Winter" takes on the past through a speaker who reckons with the fact of powerlessness in the future. I love how this poem begins in what seems a domestic situation but ends in a way that explores all of motherhood, womanhood, and loverhood.
- Jericho Brown
FINALISTS
Elizabeth Spesia "Casino Dream"
Adele Elise Williams "Violence"
SEMIFINALISTS
Julia Alter - "What the Lake Knows"
Wendy Cannella "Then You Know How It All Ends"
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura "Artificial Flavors" and "Memorial"
Janine Certo "Elixir for My Father" and "Sibling with Hair on Fire, Sibling Tangled in Vines"
Angela Dribben "Imprint"
CeAnna Heit "Where We Kept Our Hope"
Nathalie Khankan "Your Terrain, My Steep Love, Is Daily"
Cali Kopczick "Hunger" and "Refinery"
Chrissy Martin "Upon Discovering There Is Too Much"
Jeanne Morel "Sunday Aubade Upon Leaving the Mark Spencer Hotel for a Latte"
Dion O'Reilly "Disappearing"
Kathleen Riley-Tryon "If You Think You Might Be An Avalanche" and "Séance with Madame Love"
Dara-Lyn Shrager "Morphs of the Eastern Screech Owl"
John Sibley Williams "What I Tell Them"
Every spring, Crab Creek Review holds it annual Poetry Prize contest. A $500 is awarded to the winning poem. All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists published in the Crab Creek Review.
See the full list of those recognized by this year's Prize below!
WINNER
Margot Kahn "Winter"
"Winter" takes on the past through a speaker who reckons with the fact of powerlessness in the future. I love how this poem begins in what seems a domestic situation but ends in a way that explores all of motherhood, womanhood, and loverhood.
- Jericho Brown
FINALISTS
Elizabeth Spesia "Casino Dream"
Adele Elise Williams "Violence"
SEMIFINALISTS
Julia Alter - "What the Lake Knows"
Wendy Cannella "Then You Know How It All Ends"
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura "Artificial Flavors" and "Memorial"
Janine Certo "Elixir for My Father" and "Sibling with Hair on Fire, Sibling Tangled in Vines"
Angela Dribben "Imprint"
CeAnna Heit "Where We Kept Our Hope"
Nathalie Khankan "Your Terrain, My Steep Love, Is Daily"
Cali Kopczick "Hunger" and "Refinery"
Chrissy Martin "Upon Discovering There Is Too Much"
Jeanne Morel "Sunday Aubade Upon Leaving the Mark Spencer Hotel for a Latte"
Dion O'Reilly "Disappearing"
Kathleen Riley-Tryon "If You Think You Might Be An Avalanche" and "Séance with Madame Love"
Dara-Lyn Shrager "Morphs of the Eastern Screech Owl"
John Sibley Williams "What I Tell Them"
Every spring, Crab Creek Review holds it annual Poetry Prize contest. A $500 is awarded to the winning poem. All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists published in the Crab Creek Review.