UPDATE: The awards ceremony for The Kowit 2018 will be held Friday, March 22, 2019, starting at 6:30 p.m. on the 9th-floor rooftop Shiley Room at Central Library, downtown San Diego.
Congratulations to all 2017 honorees.
The Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2017: $1000
Vivian Shipley — Cargo
Runner Up: $250
Leona Sevick — Johns Hopkins Hospital, at the Corner of Orleans and N. Broadway
Second Runner Up: $100
David Allen Sullivan — Walking the Eight Verses Trail
Honorable Mention
Robin Becker: Words With Friends
Linda Bryant: No One Knows Why
Molly Larson Cook: The Pursuit of Happiness
Rachel Guido deVries: Tattoo: A Memory
Frankie Drayus: Blue Agave
George Drew: Camping Out on the Styx
Richard Elden: Eclipse At Wounded Knee
James Ellenberger: Geometry makes you tender
Jana-Lee Germaine: The Manicure
Janlori Goldman:
Ode to the Apricot Tree on 9th Street, Durango, Colorado
Diana Ha: Age
Jeremy Halinen: Siren
Matt Hohner: You Learn a Friend’s Friend Has Died
Rosa Lane: Dear Shakespeare
Tamara Madison: Waiting for the Scythe
Debra Marquart: Even on a Sunday Drive
Mary O’Connor: Cut and Save
Cece Peri: Who Says Bodhisattvas Can’t Have Fun?
Tania Pryputniewicz: Moscow Road
Vivian Shipley: August 21 2017, The Solar Eclipse, College of Charleston, SC
Vivian Shipley: Open Sesame
- Open for submissions on June 15 through October 15 annually.
- Click on The Kowit on our main menu, or visit www.sdeag.org for complete entry details.
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