december’s 2016 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize Winners
The Spring/Summer 2016 issue of december features the winner and finalists of the Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize (with submissions opening back up in autumn). This year, the magazine received over 1,200 contest entries, which were then narrowed down to 20 semi-finalists. From these selections, judge Marge Piercy selected the following for the winner, honorable mentions, and finalists.
First Place:
Jim Dwyer, “Enlightenment”
Honorable Mention:
Kate Gray, “Reassurance” and “For Every Girl”
Finalists:
José Angel Araguz, “Cazar Means to Hunt Not to Marry”
Debbie Benson, “Uchi Vallai”
Kierstin Bridger, “Preparing to Sink”
Tova Green, “March Storm at Abbots Lagoon”
John McCarthy, “What I mean When I Say I Don’t Box Anymore”
M.H. Perry, “Cardamom, Osprey, Banff, Us”
Cocoa M. Williams, “Leda on a Stoop in St. Bernard Projects (1974)”
Grab a copy of december’s Spring/Summer 2016 issue to read these poems.