April 25th, 2020
We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize. All poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 27.
First Prize: “After the War” by Daniel Stewart
Second Prize: “The Shape of Sound” by Meli Broderick Eaton
Third Prize: “On Being Mistaken for an Algorithm” by Brian Brodeur
Finalists:
“Haiku to a Lost Cousin” by Partridge Boswell
“Ship of Theseus” by Rodney Gomez
“Black Widow” by Clarinda Harriss
“When there was a music industry” by Jason Morphew
“Fall” by Corey Ruzicano
“A Postcard I Cannot Write” by Brad Vogel
“Before the Elegies” by Jim Whiteside
Prize Judge: Stephen Reichert