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2008 Poetry Center Contest Results

The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is pleased to announce the winners, runners-up, finalists, and semi-finalists for the 2008 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prizes. This year, a total of 770 manuscripts were submitted to the First Book and Open Book Competitions, which award publication and a $1000 advance against royalties for an original manuscript of poetry in each category. Many thanks to all of the poets who sent in their work.

Allison Benis White of Irvine, California, was selected by final judge Robert Hill Long as winner of our First Book Competition for her manuscript Self-Portrait with Crayon, to be published in Spring 2009.

Liz Waldner of Oakland, California, has been selected by the Open Book Editorial Committee (Kazim Ali, Mary Biddinger, Michael Dumanis, and Sarah Gridley) as the winner of our Open Book Competition for her manuscript Trust, to be published in Spring 2009.

We have selected two additional manuscripts for publication in Fall 2009: Sum of Every Lost Ship by Allison Titus of Richmond, VA, and Destruction Myth by Mathias Svalina of New York, NY.

We would also like to recognize and congratulate the following runners-up, finalists, and semi-finalists for the awards:

First Book Competition	Open Book Competition

Runners-Up (as named by Robert Hill Long):	Runners-Up (as named by Open Book Editorial Committee):
Allison Titus, Richmond, VA, Sum of Every Lost Ship Jesse Nissim, Oakland, CA, Diagram Her Dream of Flight	Dora Malech, Iowa City, IA, Make, Break,Or Seth Abramson, Iowa City, IA, Final Boy
First-Book Finalists:	Open Book Finalists:
Erica Bernheim, Chicago, IL, The Mimic Sea Michele Bowman, Brooklyn, NY, Cowboys Katherine Dimma, New York, NY, More Rooms in the World than Doors Suzanne Heyd, New Haven, CT, Breaking & Entering Laura McKee, Seattle, WA, Uttermost Paradise Place Marc McKee, Columbia, MO, Fuse Katrinka Moore, New York, NY, Thief Sarah O’Brien, Iowa City, IA, Catch Light Mathias Svalina, New York, NY, Destruction Myth Mathias Svalina, New York, NY, I Have Chosen You & You Have Chosen Me Lauren Smith Traore, Whitewater, WI, Birdello Julie Marie Wade, Barnesville, OH, Six	Adam Clay, Kalamazoo, MI, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World Adam Clay, Kalamazoo, MI, Nodaway River Julie Doxsee, Istanbul, Turkey, Of Unsuspended Suns Chris Forhan, Indianapolis, IN, Black Leapt In Kirsten Kaschock, Philadelphia, PA, A Beautiful Name for a Girl Patrick Lawler, Liverpool, NY, Breathe: A Word of It Erika Meitner, Blacksburg, VA, The Contact Notes Nils Michals, San Francisco, CA, Theory of Shadows and Perspective Maggie Smith, Columbus, OH, Hush Now

First Book Semi-Finalists:	Open Book Semi-Finalists:
Katherine Lucas Anderson, Ithaca, NY, Annunciation Tracy Jo Barnwell, Houston, TX, Monsters in Repose Kiley Cogis, Fairfax, VA, Lightproof Noah Falck, Dayton, OH, The Snowmen Are Losing Weight Matthew Gavin Frank, Buffalo Grove, IL, The Morrow Plots Emily Kendal Frey, Portland, OR, Dear Jalapeño Carolyn Hembree, New Orleans, LA, Skinny Kyle McCord, Amherst, MA, The Nesting Doll Gary L. McDowell, Portage, MI, Young Teeth Carrie Oeding, Athens, OH, Our List of Solutions Nicholas Regiacorte, Galesburg, IL,Voice Human Roy Seeger, Kalamazoo, MI, The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds Brandon Som, Pittsburgh, PA, Hearsay Jeanine Walker, Houston, TX, Water Beneath the Foundation Nicole Zdeb, Portland, OR, The Friction of Distance	Laurie Blauner, Seattle, WA, Entertaining in the Room with All Kinds Steve Fellner, Brockport, NY, The Weary World Rejoices Christopher Howell, Spokane, WA, Gaze Malinda Markham, San Jose, CA, Complicit F. Daniel Rzicznek, Bowling Green, OH, Divination Machine Mary Ann Samyn, Morgantown, WV, Incredibly Small and Impossibly Lovely Matthew Thorburn, Riverdale, NY, Like Luck Tony Trigilio, Chicago, IL, Historic Diary

First Book Semi-Finalists:

Open Book Semi-Finalists:

Katherine Lucas Anderson, Ithaca, NY, Annunciation
Tracy Jo Barnwell, Houston, TX, Monsters in Repose
Kiley Cogis, Fairfax, VA, Lightproof
Noah Falck, Dayton, OH, The Snowmen Are Losing
   Weight
Matthew Gavin Frank, Buffalo Grove, IL, The Morrow Plots
Emily Kendal Frey, Portland, OR, Dear Jalapeño
Carolyn Hembree, New Orleans, LA, Skinny
Kyle McCord, Amherst, MA, The Nesting Doll
Gary L. McDowell, Portage, MI, Young Teeth
Carrie Oeding, Athens, OH, Our List of Solutions
Nicholas Regiacorte, Galesburg, IL,Voice Human
Roy Seeger, Kalamazoo, MI, The Boy Whose Hands
   Were Birds
Brandon Som, Pittsburgh, PA, Hearsay
Jeanine Walker, Houston, TX, Water Beneath the
   Foundation
Nicole Zdeb, Portland, OR, The Friction of Distance

Laurie Blauner, Seattle, WA, Entertaining in the Room with
All Kinds
Steve Fellner, Brockport, NY, The Weary World Rejoices
Christopher Howell, Spokane, WA, Gaze
Malinda Markham, San Jose, CA, Complicit
F. Daniel Rzicznek, Bowling Green, OH, Divination Machine
Mary Ann Samyn, Morgantown, WV, Incredibly Small and
Impossibly Lovely
Matthew Thorburn, Riverdale, NY, Like Luck
Tony Trigilio, Chicago, IL, Historic Diary

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