![]() The author of two chapbooks, as well as poems in scattered journals, she currently serves on the boards of two local environmental organizations and teaches courses in nature writing and ecopoetry. Winifred Hughes is a reformed academic and active birder living in Princeton, NJ. HONORARY MENTIONS (in no particular order): A poem with many interests, including the reader. ![]() What a pleasure to watch his poet’s mind at work, guiding us this way and that, then landing on our own experience with mortality. ![]() – Billy CollinsĪ poem with a facility of movement, swinging from the Judas goat to Darwin, a dying dog, and ending with our own dead, how they linger and return. The poem is timely as well as formally commendable. Here, the difficult subject of the forces denying girls an education in Afghanistan is approached at an angle by which the poet ingeniously mixes the language of science with the plight of the young students to form a kind of mathematics of intolerance. An accomplishment in understatement. – Billy Collins The flora and flora are intimately rendered for nothing has changed, except a terrible sense of absence, creating a palpable split on what’s on either side of the window. This poem is subtle elegy which uses the familiar scene of a rural backyard to evoke the absence of a loved one. Comments on the winning three poems are from Billy Collins (below), who we sincerely thank for lending his time and experience to judge the prize.Ĭongratulations to these ten poets, and also to those whose poems made the short and long-lists. ![]()
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