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2007 Robert Watson Poetry Award Finalists

The 2007 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, Robert Watson, selected the winner from twenty-one finalists:

Elizabeth Volpe, Brewing in Eden
Brian Brodeur, Durer’s Rhinoceros
Jessica Jewell, Land of Tomorrow
Victoria Anderson, Questions for Travelers
Matthew Thorburn, Triptych with a Nervous Tic
Michael Spence, Darken Ship
Kathleen Kirk, Storms and Orchids
Michael F. Cooper, Sedna Nuliajuk: Goddess of the Sea, Mother of Sea Beasts
Lynell Edwards, Covet
Jay Rogoff, Twenty-Four Danses Macabres
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Dream Cabinet
Kimalisa Kaczinski, Light of Broken Mirrors
Carrie Shipers, Rescue Conditions
Michele Rozga, The Switchback Path
Michelle Y. Burke, Horse Loquela
Elizabeth Rees, Report from the Edge
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Wild Margin
John Pursley III, A Story without Poverty
Scott Weaver, My Father’s Faith
Brad Clompus, Memory Drum
Dara Mandle, Trick City

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