We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.
And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Andrea Hollander!
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Finalists:
The Mother/Daughter Papers by Gail Rudd Entrekin (CA)
Currents for Jellyfish by Briana Fischella (FL)
Journey of Trees by Susan Landgraf (WA)
The Last Angels by Richard Lyons (TN)
Now Is What Matters by Janet Steward (WA)
Beguiled by Ingrid Wendt (OR)
The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dogen by James K. Zimmerman (NY)
Rescue Dogs by Fred Zirm (MD)