2013 Pocataligo Poetry Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Pocataligo poetry contest, judged by Samuel Amadon. The first place winner will receive a $500 prize, and the top three poems will be published in Yemassee 20.2, forthcoming summer 2013.
1st place: Conor O’Connor | “Apparitions”
2nd place: M.K. Sukach | “Unintended Metaphors”
3rd place: Elizabeth Drewry | “Choking”
Finalists:
“A Dancer Considers Her Brief Life” | Anika Eide
“We’ve got electric cars and i-pads, but post-post-industrialized love is still rocket ships and four-stroke internal combustion engines” | Jason Hess
“the truth is I stutter the truth” | Kari Hawkey
“[Railroads]” | Gregg Murray
“My Father’s Last Night” | Cathy Kodra
“The Sect which Pulls the Sinews: I’ve Seen You Handle Cocoons” | Annie Christian
“Fable. Antirrhinum” | Nikki Zielinski
“a pathologist’s prayer” | Gail Waldstein
“Why the Sea Does Not Sleep” | Holly Roland
“Lou Gehrig’s: Caesura” | Annie Charlton
Read about past years’ winners here.
Kisa Kavass || Kevin Wilson || David Armstrong || Barb Johnson || Valerie Wilkinson || Emily St. John Mandel || Ciara Shuttleworth || Eric Freeze || Tara Mae Mulroy || Spencer Smith || W. Todd Kaneko || Andrew Najberg || David Starkey || C. Ann Kodra || Hannah Craig || and 
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