December 22nd, 2012
Judges Clare Banks and Traci O’Dea have selected the winners of the 2012 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. All poems will be published in Smartish Pace, Issue 20.
1st Prize: “Westview Cemetery” by Leah Falk
2nd Prize: “Notes from a Salt Flat Prisoner” by Noel Crook
3rd Prize: “Pictures of the Floating World, Iwate Prefecture” by Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer
Finalists:
“Nairobi, 1992” by Rhonda Collis
“Letter to Gregory with Haymow’s Gold” by Michele Poulos
“Incidental Finding” by Kristin Robertson
“Discord” by Shenandoah Sowash
“Sea Locks” by Shenandoah Sowash
“Secrets” by Simona Chitescu Weik
Smartish Pace