Snaketown
Kathleen Wakefield, Bainbridge Island, WA
Selected by Steve Lattimore

2007 Winners of the Poetry Center Prizes
$1,000 and publication

First Book Competition:
The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants
Bern Mulvey, Miyazaki, Japan
Selected by Claudia Rankine
Read the Author Interview in Word format.

Open Competition:
Kiss, Kiss
L. L. Harper, Batesville-Leesville, SC
Selected by the Editorial Committee

These manuscripts were chosen from among 658 manuscripts entered in the 2007 contest by 625 poets. We congratulate these poets for their accomplishments and thank all of the poets who let us consider their work this year. As ever, there were many fine manuscripts.

The prize winning manuscripts will be published in 2008. The collection of poems, To See the Earth, by Philip Metres of University Heights, Ohio, was published February, 2008 as part of the Center’s imagination series.
Horse Dance Underwater, by Helena Mesa of Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be released in the fall of 2008.

Entries for the Fourth Annual Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest are accepted from April 1, 2008 up to a postmark deadline of October 1, 2008. We will be accepting manuscripts for the 2009 Poetry Center Prizes beginning November 1, 2007. Manuscripts must be postmarked by March 2, 2009, to be considered for the contest.

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