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 Event Center at Central Library, downtown San Diego. Host: Marc Chery, Humanities Supervisor.
Congratulations to all:
The Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2018
Ode to My Cautionary Self — Amanda Mattimoe
2nd Place: Poem as an Act of Terrorism — Abby Murray
3rd Place: Hat Trick — David Denny
Honorable Mention
(alphabetically, by poet)
Why the Neighbors Consider Me Dangerous — Deborah Allbritain
I Know — Baethan Balor
Mandolin Sky — Susan Browne
Tell Me, Charles Bukowski — George Drew
Department of Loose Screws — Trish Dugger
Mother Meaning — Monique Gagnon German
A Bumble Bee’s Behind — Harry Griswold
Scripps Pier, 1965 — Valarie Hastings
Choosing Figs — Hannah Hornsey
The Forest Torso — Shannon Jonas
Cartography of a Girl’s Room — Anita Koester
Heat — Ann Maioroff
Hale Eddy — Gerald McCarthy
The Grapevine — Steve McDonald
Cinco Putas Strip Club — Joe Medina
Crying is Expected in a Therapy Office — Suzanne O’Connell
When Tainas Planted Kin — Margarita Rosa
Say Anything — Lee Rossi
Mostly Moose — Ron Salisbury
a grocery list for the end of the world — Joelle Schumacher
Mushrooms — Valerie Wallace
Poems advancing to the Finals receive a minimum of Honorable Mention and publication in the San Diego Poetry Annual, reprint in “Kowit’s Korner” at Serving House Journal.
Cash Prize winners ($1350 total) to be presented March 22, 2019
Poets reading at the awards ceremony also receive an honorarium of $50.
Judge: Jeff Walt (Regional Editor, SDPA, and Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize awardee, 2018)
- 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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