Congratulations to the winner of the 2008 MMM Press Poetry Book Contest, Rebecca Foust's All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song
Rebecca Foust’s chapbooks, Dark Card and Mom’s Canoe, won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Prizes and were published by Texas Review Press in 2008 and 2009. Her recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Hudson Review, Margie, North American Review, Spoon River and elsewhere. Recently retired from her work as an advocate and political organizer for parents of students with autism and other learning disorders, she is in her final semester in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
We owe many thanks to our final judge, the great poet and editor Steven Huff and to all of the editors who helped to anonymously read and reread the hundreds of mss. Thanks to Erik Nilsen, Debra Bokur, and Brian Heston, and thanks to editorial assistants and interns Sarah Heady, Amy Bauer, and Sam Corbo. All of the mss. had at least two readers, including me. And many of them had three and even more readers, in some cases. As always, we strive to give every ms. a very fair hearing. We had a very large number of strong mss. again. We want to thank all of the writers who sent in their work.
We are also planning to contact many of the contest entrants, especially the finalists and semifinalists, to invite them to submit to the MMM literary journal.
The runner up was:
People Are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia King
The other finalist mss. titles were:
Dead Wendy
Even Bullets Have Faces
The Smaller Half
Tilt
The semifinalists titles were:
A History of Glass
Beautiful Monsters
Belly
BONE SERENADES
Bruise Journey
Casa Marina
Children of Interrogation
Elegy for my Brother Who Won't Mind if I Say This
Eliza
Emptying
Entering the Labyrinth
Every Day Comes To You Naked
Fathering
Gesture Against Surrender
Hope
Ice and Fire
If You Have Ghosts
Improbable Music
IN THAILAND IT IS NIGHT
In the Circle of the Familiar
Killing the Nurse in the House
Lightproof
OHIO(S)
Oracle Bones
Petroglyph Americana
Poems for the Blind Pig
Prometheus in Akron
Revisited
Southern Shores
Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders
The Blue Sky that Follows Me
The Rival
The Six O'clock Siren
The Stranger Dissolves
Tree, Salt, Sea
Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand
You Are Here
ZORBA’S DAUGHTER
2008 Many Mountains Moving Poetry & Flash Fiction Contest Winners:
Congratulations to Laura Loomis for the winning flash fiction, "The Sign." This story will be featured in MMM Vol. X.
The Runner-up was "Sequins and Holes" by Maureen O'Brien.
Finalists, sorted by titles in alphabetical order:
"Here Is Mt. Vesuvius"
"How We Gentrified Lincoln Park"
"Now That There Is Hope There Is No Time"
"Relics"
Congratulations to Brian Brodeur for the winning poem, "The Clearing." This poem will be featured in MMM Vol. X.
Poetry Contest Finalists, sorted by titles in alphabetical order: [01/24/2009]
"Car Stealer" by Susan Deer Cloud
"Spring" by Sarah Zale
"The East Enders" by John Jeffire
"The Good Soldier" by John Jeffire
"Unknowable Nocturne" by Mark Wagenaar
{All entries were read anonymously by the first reader, all other readers, and the final judge.}
Semifinalist titles, sorted by titles in alphabetical order:
"After Inebriation My Feelings Turn Frosty"
"A New Kind of Breathing"
"As Overheard in Bars, Backyards"
"Honour Roll"
"Hunger"
"I stroll into your apartment"
"Long Occupation"
"Mad with Fear"
"Ode to O Holy Nights in Liberty, New York"
"Pastoral"
"Pearls"
"String Theories"
"Swallowing Light"
"When we were both still in it"