November 24th, 2008
First Prize: “News Clipping, 1978” by Chris Hayes
Second Prize: “On Turning Forty-Two” by Andrew Kozma
Third Prize: “How shall they hear the word of God?” by Haines Eason
Finalists:
“Love as a Series of Continuity Errors” by Matt Anserello
“Approaching My Desk” by Mark DeFoe
“What George Brought to the Party” by Emily B. Ellis
“The Elephant” by Alex Grant
“Down Winding, Cobbled Streets to the Sea” by Alan Michael Parker
“Beach House, January, Visiting” by Maggie Schwed
“Proofreading the Egyptian Book of the Dead on the South Carolina Coast” by Alexa Selph
8th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize; poems published in Smartish Pace Issue 16, April 1, 2009.
Prize Judge: Stephen Reichert, Editor, Smartish Pace