New Letters Awards for Writers

ANNOUNCES 2008 POETRY FINALISTS
Next postmark deadline:  May 18, 2009.

The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry

for the best group of three to six poems

The 20 Poetry Finalists for 2008 include:
 

Entry #P150: 
"Family," "Figure of St. Francis in Bronze," "Weight," "Majolica," &
"Courtyard of the Musee des Belles Artes."
 

Entry #P170: 
"Letter from Southern Africa," "Greedy," "Sustain," "Sonnet,"
"Ode to Moving," & "Last Night."
 

Entry #P176: 
"After the Marriage," "Casting Off, Rockport Quarry," "Ski Jumper," "Bird,"
"I Want To Watch You Live," & "In Proctor Garden."
 

Entry #P183: 
"The Faces," "The Promise Written on the Bathroom Stall,"
"A Tsunami Can Interrupt Dinner Conversation," "Aliens R Us,"
"Minutes from the Village Green Preservation Society's Inaugural Meeting,"
& "A Partial Summary: 2002-2007."
 

Entry #P197: 
"What Adheres," "The Solitary," "Daphne,"
& "Instructions for Starting an Herbarium."
 

Entry #P226: 
"The Halo Effect," "The Mimic Sea," "Dialogue for Robots,"
"Seven Myths of the Disaster," "The Aged Gymnast Pauses Before the Vault,"
& "Taxidermy."
 

Entry #P237: 
"A Week of Sundays," "Hoodoo You Think You're Foolin',"
"Washington Heights," & "Mother's Day."
 

Entry #P243: 
"The Movies," "Lawn Chairs, Grackles," "Composers,"
& "The Child Gardener."
 

Entry #P287: 
"Waiting for the Miracle," "Remember," "Tradition," "Basket Baby,"
& "Sitting Together during Services."
 

Entry #P360: 
"Bulls of Pamplona," "Eva," "Mon(tana) a.k.a. Hollywood,"
"Mico," "Psychic Electricians," & "Charlie."
 

Entry #P400: 
"Burn Barrel," "At a Sleepover, She Goes Looking for Ice Cream,"
"Ten Thousand Silver Dollar," "The Woman Who Didn't Know How,"
"Girl, Inland," & "A Mother's Story."
 

Entry #P406: 
"Heaven," "Love & Marriage," "Starting Over After Long Estrangement,"
"Survival," "Watercolors with Sound Effects," & "Vacation."
 

Entry #P418: 
"The Disappearance of the Polar Bears,"
"The History of Us," "Goat Rock," & "During the Power Outage."
 

Entry #P420: 
"Spook," "South of Eden," "Landing Card," "Bodies of Water,"
& "Flightbook: Cuba."
 

Entry #P439: 
"Górecki," "The Collector," "Lead," & "Zeno."
 

Entry #P451: 
"A Prayer for the Expatriate," "A Prayer for the Palace,"
"Love/Stoned," "Fire Without Brimstone,"
"What I Should Have Told the Homeless Man in Cleveland Who Mistook Me for Mary's Son,"
& "Lost and Found."
 

Entry #P455: 
"Thermidor," "Rituxan Treatment #1, Friday, January 13,"
"Rituxan Treatment #2, Saturday, January 21,"
"Rituxan Treatment #3, Saturday, January 28,"
& "Rituxan Treatment #4, Saturday, February 4."
 

Entry #P458: 
"Garcia Lorca Becomes His Own Poem," "Preciosa Remembers Lorca,"
"Love And The Laws Of Thermodynamics,"
"Out From Under The Wheel," "Wallace Stevens Joins The Justice League,"
& "Sheyna 1936."
 

Entry #P459: 
"Vita Nuova," Water Witching," "Columbia,"
"Inheritance," & "Kethoneth Passim."
 

Entry #P483: 
"Martin Luther at Midnight," "My Own Private Keats,"
"Concrete as Eggs," "Call Girl in Lutheran Shoes,"
"Love: That's All It Was," & "Traitors of Montgomery County."

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