San Diego Poetry Annual

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

2018 Finalists

(alphabetically, by poet)

Why the Neighbors Consider Me Dangerous — Deborah Allbritain

Mandolin Sky — Susan Brown

Hat Trick — David Denny

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

Ode to My Cautionary Self — Amanda Mattimoe

Hale Eddy — Gerald McCarthy

The Grapevine — Steve McDonald

Cinco Putas Strip Club — Joe Medina

Poem as an Act of Terrorism — Abby Murray

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

I Know — Gage Wright

     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 announced January 5, 2019

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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The Editors and Publishers of the San Diego Poetry Annual have nominated four poems and one translation from our 2017-18 editions for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry

Fred Longworth:  Soldier

Javier Norambuena: Del Sibilante

      Of the Sibilant One, translation by enriKetta luissi

Amie Whittemore: Ode to an Avocado

Al Zolynas: A Project, in Process

Congratulations to these four poets and to the translator, with thanks for allowing us to publish their work.

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The bilingual volume of the San Diego Poetry Annual, edited by Olga Garcia, continues to be used as a text book at Southwestern Community College.

The college bookstore stocks the bilingual volume for purchase by students in the English composition class taught by Dr. Francisco J. Bustos, a regular contributor to the annual.

In keeping with its policy of creating permanent status for the annual in public and university libraries throughout the region, San Diego Entertainment + Arts Guild  makes copies of the bilingual volume available at actual cost to the college and earns no profit from the sales.

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