Winners and Finalists






Spire 2007 Fall Full-length Poetry Chapbook Contest

Winner of the 2007 Fall Full-length Poetry Chapbook Contest:
Christina Olson for Before I Came Home Naked

Spire Spring 2008 Poetry Chapbook Contest

The winner is The Emptiness That Makes Other Things Possible by Lori Romero.

Finalists Included:


On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes

Suellen Wedmore

Your Heart and How It Works

JoAnn Balingit

The Horizontal Poet

Jan Steckel

Semi-Finalists

If You Don’t Have a Dog

Susan Rothbard

You Might Just Be Happy

Charles Atkinson

The Memory, Which is Enormous

Tony Trigilio

Vision Ware

Caridad McCormick

The Kingdom of My Familiar

Julie Platt

A Taste for the Sticky World

Amy MacLennan

Back of the Envelope

Greg McBride




Past Poetry Contest Winners

2002 - Loren Kleinman, Flamenco Sketches
--------------Also Published: Gayle Elen Harvey, Scheduled, UnScheduled Appointments

2003 - Jennifer MacPherson, In the Mixed Gender of the Sea
--------------Also Published: Ann E. Michael, More Than Shelter

2004 - (Full-Length Contest) Jackie Bartley, Ordinary Time

2004 - (Chapbook Contest) Wanda Praisner, On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona

2004- (Fiction Contest) Richard Weems, Anything He Wants

2005 - (Chapbook Contest Only) Celia Lisset Alvarez, Shapeshifting
--------------Also Published: Phebe Davidson, Twelve Leagues In

2006 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Matthew Hittinger, Pear Slip

2006 - (Full-Length Contest) Anthony Russell White, Faith of Leaping

2007 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Elizabeth Rees, Now That We're Here

2007- (Full-Length Contest) Christina Olson, Before I Came Home Naked


 

 

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