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The Comstock Writers' Group Editors are pleased to announce our
2007 JESSIE BRYCE NILES
CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNER
as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge
Jennifer Key, from Dallas, TX
The Manifest Destiny of Desire
HONORABLE MENTIONS
(in alphabetic order)
Shannon Amidon, Hilo, HI - Stridor
Reeves Keyworth, Tucson, AZ - Ardency in the Anglo Saxon
Lisa Krueger, Pasadena, CA - Gardening on the Job
Bill Van Buskirk, Wayne, PA - Everything That's Fragile is Important
SPECIAL MERIT FINALISTS
George Bandy, Falls Church, VA - The Story Box
Joan E. Bauer , Pittsburgh, PA - Sonya in Manhattan
Richard M. Berlin, Richmond, MA, - What a Psychiatrist Remembers
Ben Berman, Brighton, MA - Moving On
Bruce Bond, Denton, TX - Djembe
Susan Howard Case, Leverett, MA - Blown Roses
James L. Dickson, Jackson, MS - Cloven
Yahya Fredrickson, Moorhead, MN - Month of Honey, Month of Missiles
Alice George, Evanston, IL - Solving Crime
Shaun T. Griffin, Virginia City, NV - Harobed
Christina Hutchins, Albany, CA - Public notice
Sharon Kessler, Pardes Hanna, Israel - Mediterranean Dust Experiment
Keetje Kuipers, Missoula, MT - What Afterlife
Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY - The Knife I Gave My Brother
Sally Molini, Omaha, NE - Food Chain Dilemmas
A. Mary Murphy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada - More than a Foreskin:
(Old Testaments from Biblical Women)
Pam O'Brien, Pittsburgh, PA - Acceptable Losses
Lisa Ortiz, San Francisco, CA - Happy
Lynn Pedersen, Kennesaw, GA - Theories of Rain
R. Russell, Monona, WI - Witness
Teya Schaffer, Oakland, CA - The Silent Poems
J. D. Schraffenberger, Vestal, NY - Brother Tom
Sarah Sloat, Frankfurt, Germany - In the Voice of a Minor Saint
Judith Sornberger, Wellsboro, PA - Wal-Mart Orchid
Burlee Vang, Fresno, CA - Tiger in America
WE THANK ALL OUR CONTESTANTS. Each contestant will receive a copy of the
winning chapbook to be published in 2008.
FROM OUR JUDGE: As always, selecting the winner of the Jessie Bryce Niles competition proved daunting. Scores of chapbooks arrived in Buffalo from the preliminary Comstock Review judges with the imperative that I find the absolute best of the lot. There were over thirty outstanding chapbooks that each passed the scrutiny of our most critical readers . Each is highly publishable. All will, in time, find publication. Thus, it became which one of these excellent books did I want associated most with my beloved grandmother’s name. "Most" is the operative word here as she would be proud of any of them. In the final analysis, it was Jennifer Key’s exquisite work that captured my attention and held it through several readings. It was this beautifully crafted and considered work that will be read and re-read in perpetuity. The charm and consistency of this piece will give poets and non-poets alike the opportunity to find intelligence and wit in layer after layer of beautiful poetry written with style and grace. It is my honor to make The Manifest Destiny of Desire our 2007 Jessie Bryce Niles chapbook competition winner. -- Kathleen Bryce Niles, December 2007
Comstock Review Editors who participated in reviewing chapbooks in 2007 were
Betsy Anderson, John M. Bellinger, Anne Fitzgerald, Peggy Sperber Flanders,
Jennifer MacPherson, Michael McAnaney, Ellen McNeal, Peggy Miller,
Kate Murphy, Michael Sickler, and Mary McLaughlin Slechta
We invite you to order a copy of the winning chapbooks
at $11 including postage. (Winner 2007 to be published in 2008.)
Send check to Comstock Review, 4956 St. John Drive,
Syracuse, NY 13215
2005 JESSIE BRYCE NILES CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNER as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge
J. F. Connolly, from Milton, MA
Among the Living
HONORABLE MENTIONS
(in alphabetic order)
Charles Atkinson, Soquel, CA — Slim Pension
Judith Barrington, Portland, OR — The Heavens Below
Michelle Bitting, Pacific Palisades, CA — Good Friday Kiss
C.L. Bledsoe, Roanoke, VA — Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
Mary Buchinger, Cambridge, MA — The Care and Feeding of Clay
Sue D. Burton, Burlington, VT — Little Steel
Marilyn Bushman-Carlton, Draper, UT — Her Side of It
Anne Carroll Fowler, Jamacia Plain, MA — All Flame
Jude Goodwin, Squamish, BC, Canada — Counting Ships
Jennifer Jerome, New York, NY — Winds in the Story
Jo Bowman Kennedy, Richmond, VA — Equinox
Kathleen Kirk, Normal, IL — Broken Sonnets
Jill Karle Leahman, Charlottesville, VA — What There Is
Eleanor Stanford, Philadelphia, PA — Deciduous
2003 JESSIE BRYCE NILES CHAPBOOK CONTEST WINNER as selected by Kathleen Bryce Niles, Final Judge
Sophie Wadsworth from Harvard, MA
Letters from Siberia
For more information, samples of poetry
in chapbook and a photo of the author, click here.
(article written before chapbook was published)
Chapbook Contest 2003 Honorable Mentions
First: Judith Goldhaber, Berkeley, CA --The Garden Spider & Other Poems
Second: Kelsea Kluane Smith, Point Hope, AK -- Out of Tenderness
Third: Kathryn E. Clement, Mesa, AZ -- Water from Stones
Fourth: Linda H. Elegant LaGrande, OR --The True Engine & Other Poems
Letters from Siberia can be purchased at the following stores:
Willow Books, Acton MA
Concord Bookshop, Concord, MA
Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Sarasota Books & News, Sarasota, FL
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