WILD LEEK PRESS INAUGURAL POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION WINNERS

JUNE 1, 2017

Wild Leek Press is pleased to announce the winners of the Wild Leek Press Inaugural Poetry Chapbook Competition and would like to thank all who entered. We are honored to have final guest poetry judge Ron Rash for our inaugural competition and so many excellent submissions. We are also happy to announce that within the same pool of submitters we expanded the inaugural competition to include winners for both letterpress printing methods and modern printing methods, and guest poetry judge Ron Rash chose the winner for each category. We will be sending individual letters to all submitters. Wild Leek Press will have information on purchasing the forthcoming chapbooks and broadsides soon.

 

Letterpress Printing:
1st Place: A Book of Birds by Susan Rae Sampson
A Book of Birds will be published as a completely letterpress-printed, hand bound chapbook using handset movable type.
2nd Place: Chimney Birds by Jonathan Greene
One poem from Chimney Birds will be printed as a letterpress-printed broadside using handset movable type.

 

Modern Printing:
1st Place: The Kindness of Crocodiles by Ann Struthers
The Kindness of Crocodiles will be traditionally-printed and include a beautifully-designed hand bound cover.
2nd Place: What’s Given by Roger Pfingston
One poem from What’s Given will be traditionally printed as a broadside.

Honorable Mention (listed in alphabetical order):
Adrian Cepeda, Only Stars Rhyme at Midnight
Bill Denham, death will come
Carissa Dezort, Screenplay
Joanne Esser, Cataloguing Holiness
Soheila Ghassy, These Strangers or The Mystic’s Tale
Haley Hartzog, Wandering Thoughts
Maggie Hess, Reeds of Our Childhood
Caroline Holland, Remembering Cedar
Thomas Holmes, Beekeeper
Edison Jennings, A Letter to Greta
Melinda de Jesus, Peminology
Lawrence Kessenich, Pearl
Miriam Levine, Saving Daylight
D.A. Lockhart, Gravel Lot that was Montana
Herbert Martin, Two Times Twelve or Twelve and Twelve
Anne Merritt, Light Through Marble Veins
David Olsen, Second Chances
Kimberley Reye, Warning Coloration
Joshua Richardson, Testament of Memories
Joyce Schmid, Natural Science
Martin Settle, Maple Samaras
Caroline Shea, Lambflesh
Bobbie Shephard, Stand Closely and Other Poems
Annie Woodford, Kick Count