Your Editor Has Issues, Part 5
in which she is pleased to announce the winners of Melusine's first annual poetry contest.
Jessica Cuello has won the $500. Vivienne Haigh-Wood Prize for her poem "In the Spired House." Whitney Vaughan's "O Joy, Mouths the Muse to Her Suitor" has placed second and Andrea L. Watson's "Reckless Light Ordains Each Leaving" has placed third. All three of these poems will appear in our first biennial (or in the case of the first edition, triennial) print anthology of work from the journal, appearing in 2012. The rest of the finalists received honorable mentions and are listed below.
Marcia Arrieta: "Days" Jessica Cuello: "Donkeyskin" Deborah DeNicola: "Eve of My Evolution" Katharyn Howd Machan: "When I Return to Sardinia" Jane Olmsted: "Imperative" Lorraine Schein: "The Crystal Fairy Book" T. Stores: "If My Father Were a New England Poet" Jari Thymian: "Radish Mother"
Congratulations to all our winners and finalists, and thanks to everyone who entered. I really enjoyed reading all the great poetry we received and look forward to doing it all again next year.
All the poems listed above can be read in our special poetry contest section here, and more delicious poems can be found in our featured poetry section.
A bit of blog news: from now on, reviews can be found in the blog as well as in the regular issues. In fact, we may move all reviews to the blog, but we'll see how things go. Check the blog early this summer for a review of Susan Slaviero's upcoming poetry collection, Cyborgia, forthcoming from Mayapple Press.
And we are still looking for great "flash" nonfiction (Did I just coin a new word? Probably not) for the blog as well.
Hope you enjoy the issue and have a lovely Spring/Summer. (Yes, we are no longer a quarterly, but we hope to compensate by bringing you more fun stuff like the print edition, more contests, and who knows what else we may have in store?) Wow, I think I just managed to intrigue myself just then. Seriously, it will be cool. We actually do have a new contest idea in mind that is kind of exciting, but I'll wait until plans are firmer to share it. (It's always important to end an editorial with a cliffhanger. Will the fairy Melusine ever regain her human form? Stay tuned.)
JEK
