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Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Winners

The Fall 2018 issue of Southern Humanities Review (51.3) features writers selected for the 2017 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize as judged by Naomi Shihab Nye:

laura sobbott rossWINNER
Laura Sobbott Ross [pictured], “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages”

RUNNERS-UP
Chivas Sandage, “Chopping Onions”
Franke Varca, “Palming the Air Hamsa”

FINALISTS
Elizabeth Aoki, “Walking here is to be swallowed by the sky”
Bruce Bond, “The Calling”
Tyler Mills, “Bastille Day”
Ondrej Pazdirek, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Again”
Leslie Sainz, “Malecón”
Andy Young, “The Immunity of Dreams”

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