New Poetry Series Selection
We’d like to start the New Year off by announcing the latest selection for Sol Books Poetry Series: Mama Joy by Eileen Silver Lillywhite.
About the winning selection: Mama Joy is lit with a quiet beauty, its language easy in the best sense of the word—graceful, melodic, never over-handled. The poems in Eileen Silver Lillywhite’s collection move together like variations on a favorite theme, the “streets rasping with Cadillacs” and the “winds booming across continents,” all of which set the tone for a frank look at life’s major thematic movements.
Runners up:
Admissions by Don Narkevic
Night’s Body by George Keithley
Apacheria Tableaux by Rawdon Tomlinson
Tidal Gift by Marjorie Power
Finalists:
The Breath of Houses by Catherine Jagoe
Cadence of Shared Space by Pearl Karrer
Field Notes of a Descendent by Carolyn Moore
Fly Over States by Richard Luftig
Heart of Gold by Alan Catlin
The Hinge of the World by Lucian Young
I Regret Nothing by Jean Hollander
Killing the Dog by Michael Steffen
Letters to Juliet by Robert Cooperman
Returning from Egypt by Elizabeth Rees
String Theory for Lovers by Ken Pobo
Sumptuous Heart by Muriel Karr
Threading Miles by Alfred Encarnacion
To Shake Hands with Mountains by Lynn Veach Salder
Voiced Shadows by Tom McFadden
Congratulation to Eileen and all of the finalists, and thanks to everyone who submitted their poetry collections, making this another successful contest.
Posted on January 1st, 2010 under Mama Joy, Poetry Series • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback
