First Annual Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry Prize Winners
Green Briar Review held its first annual Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry Prize judged by Sean Thomas Dougherty, who notes, “In judging the poems submitted for this contest, I looked foremost at language on the level of the line. This was the difference in deciding which poems were most successful. Then at meaning, then at guts. It was this last one that showed some poems were just braver emotionally than others.”
Dougherty selected the top three poems and then ten Honorable Mentions. Each of the three Green Briar Review editors then selected one poem from those ten for publication.
First Prize
What the Other Eye Sees
Christina Clark
Second Prize
Whiteness
Cary Waterman
Third Prize
Tattoos and Birthmarks
Patrice Melnick
Honorable Mention Editors’ Pick
Spiders and Big Gear Talk
Harlow Crandall
Tearing Down the Horseshoe & Star
Gentris L. Jointe
O Dochartaig, Ar nDutcas
Kevin Dougherty
Honorable Mentions
April Aubade
Richard Foerster
Soledad
Monica Teresa Ortiz
Cake
Trish Harris
Tarke al Yayeb Mohamed Bouazizi
Josh Gage
Lilacs
Mary Golias
Break On Through
Jeanne Sirotkin Haynes
State Park
Abigail Chiaramonte
