"Best of the Best" Poetry Competition Winner Announced
The Best of the Best Poetry Competition sponsored by TRIPLOPIA ezine announces its 2007 recipient: Christina Lovin for “Coal Country.”
Lovin’s poem is an expertly crafted sonnet crown eulogizing a played-out Midwestern coal town. Previously the poem has been recognized by the 2005 Betty Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing from Women Writers of Kentucky, the 2006 PASSAGER Poet of the Year Award and the 2007 Oliver Browning Award from POESIA. It was also a finalist for the 2006 Rita Dove Award and the 2006 Margaret Reid Award for Traditional Forms.
“Coal Country” is collected in Ms. Lovin’s first chapbook, What We Burned for Warmth from Finishing Line Press, 2006 Her second chapbook, Little Fires, will be published by the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Poetry Series later this year.
The competition, in which a poem must have won first place in a previous contest, awards 100$, a Pushcart Anthology nomination; an author interview; a critical appreciation by judge, Tracy Koretsky, author of Ropeless, a fifteen-time award-winning novel.
The competition will re-open for submissions in May of 2008. Details available by request from bestofthebest@triplopia.org .
TRIPLOPIA is an internationally-oriented, thematic, web quarterly which publishes three poems by each carefully selected author along with fiction, interviews, reviews, and features.
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Lovin’s poem is an expertly crafted sonnet crown eulogizing a played-out Midwestern coal town. Previously the poem has been recognized by the 2005 Betty Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing from Women Writers of Kentucky, the 2006 PASSAGER Poet of the Year Award and the 2007 Oliver Browning Award from POESIA. It was also a finalist for the 2006 Rita Dove Award and the 2006 Margaret Reid Award for Traditional Forms.
“Coal Country” is collected in Ms. Lovin’s first chapbook, What We Burned for Warmth from Finishing Line Press, 2006 Her second chapbook, Little Fires, will be published by the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Poetry Series later this year.
The competition, in which a poem must have won first place in a previous contest, awards 100$, a Pushcart Anthology nomination; an author interview; a critical appreciation by judge, Tracy Koretsky, author of Ropeless, a fifteen-time award-winning novel.
The competition will re-open for submissions in May of 2008. Details available by request from bestofthebest@triplopia.org .
TRIPLOPIA is an internationally-oriented, thematic, web quarterly which publishes three poems by each carefully selected author along with fiction, interviews, reviews, and features.
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