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SARABANDE STUDENT POETRY COMPETITION

First Prize:
$500 cash
letterpress broadside of the winning poem
publication on Website

Guidelines:

  • Full-time undergraduate Kentucky college students only
  • Submit no more than three poems, each typed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper
  • Each poem must fit on one page in 12 point font
  • Do not place more than one poem on a page
  • Put your name, address, phone, and e-mail address on each poem
  • Include a copy of your student ID or other proof of full-time attendance with
  • the name of a professor in your university's English Department
  • Include a SASE for notification of winner

All submissions must be RECEIVED by November 1

Mail to:
Student Poetry Competition
Sarabande Books
2234 Dundee Road, Suite 200
Louisville KY, 40205

 
Winners of the 2007 Student Poetry Prize:

FIRST PRIZE
"In October" by Annie Maggard (Centre College)

SECOND PRIZE
"The Starry-Eyed Girl" by Ashley Flesher (Centre College)
&
"Familia" by Traci Sprester (Centre College)

THIRD PRIZE
"Bone Forgotten" by Ashley Danielle Ryle (Kentucky Wesleyan College)

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Jill Cox "Where You Go Before 7:00 a.m." (Bellarmine University)
Ben Hughes "Pipe Dream" (Asbury College)
Emily Ruppel "This Way to Wolvercote" (Bellarmine University)
Chris Thomas "Pick Me Up" (University of Louisville)
Isaiah Watts "Theme Park" (University of Louisville)