Congratulations to all winners, finalists and semi-finalists in Naugatuck River Review’s 6th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest. All the following poets will be published in Naugatuck River Review’s Winter 2015 issue. Thank you to Monica Hand for judging the contest!
Prize Winners:
Virginia Shreve Tintype 1st Prize ($1000 plus publication in NRR’s Winter 2015 issue)
Renny Golden A Line Breaking 2nd prize ($250 plus publication)
Matt Pasca Mexico Nights are so Black 3rd prize ($100 plus publication)
Finalists:
Catee Baugh Lir’s Children
Jeffrey P. Beck Castor and Pollux
Janet Chalmers At the Museum of Never Forgetting
Francine Conley Refinement
Susan Deer Cloud Renegade Cemetery
Dante Di Stefano Last Rites
Phillip Egelston The Fox
Jonathan Greenhause By the River Sur
Luisa A. Igloria Camellia Japonica
Brock Jones Insomnia
Sharon McDermott Letter to my Father
Abby E. Murray Apology for My Thirteenth Year
David Meischen Another Kind of Answer
Kate Peterson Lara
Barbara Rockman Onto Her Tatooed Back, Bedtime Story I Tell My Daughter
Rose M. Smith The Harbinger
Karen J. Weyant The Girl on the Fire Escape
Semi-Finalists
Micki Blenkush Nests
Ann Clark History Lesson
Rupert Fike On the Hospital’s Top Floor
Julie Green Concert 2 p.m., Free
Carol Kanter What’s Made All the Difference
Lucas Khan My Sister’s Perfume
J. David Liss In the Home
Melissa Lorio Jones
M.B. McLatchey The Bath
Joel Moskowitz My Father Remembers a Ninth Street Sabbath
Roger Pfingston Mother’s Day
Susan Rothbard Back Then
Cecil Sayre The Piano
Penelope Scambly Schott Murderer
Carla Schwartz Late for Dinner
Elizabeth Stoessl Tool Chest
T. Stores Bears
Gary Whited The Day the Milk Cow Kicked the Bucket
Marie Wise My Grandmother Glitters
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