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2008 Robert Watson Poetry Award Finalists

The 2008 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, Dan Albergotti, selected the winner from twenty-two finalists:

Bianca Diaz, No One Says Kin Anymore
Victoria Anderson, Questions for Travelers
O. Ayes, The Power Among Us
Bruce Bennett, A Girl Like You
Nancy Botkin, In Waves
Dawn Corrigan, Florida’s Fantastic Flora and Fauna
Weston Cutter, Last Light Before Morning
Heidi Czerwiec, Threnody
Richard Foerster, Horologium
Catherine Kasper, Incremental Peril
Kathleen Kirk, Taking a Lover
Brandon Krieg, Whenever You Arrive
Benjamin Miller, Without Compass
Tara Powell, Physical Science
Jay Rogoff, Twenty Danses Macabre
Brenden Salmon, All Roads Are Good
Natasha Saje, Qib, Qell, Qatch
Danielle Sellers, Key West Elegies
Carrie Shippers, Rescue Conditions
Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, Point Of
Matthew Thorburn, Trick City

Benjamin Vogt, Disappears in the Rain

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