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Winners of the 2018 Palette Poetry Prize
It is an honor and a privilege to share the winners of the 2018 Palette Poetry Prize, as selected from our finalists by Shane McCrae.
This Is How I Love You
By Joanne Oh
When books grow old / they turn to wood / and grow mushrooms / along the spines.
Deadlines for November: Single Poem Contests
We’ve got to be thankful to live in a world which offers so many opportunities for poets to get their work out there. Here are nine presses to submit your poetry manuscripts to this month.
A Legacy of Torch Song
Fire’s flicker by ancient instinct has always seemed / a morsel of some good thing, some yellow promise / like a notebook patterned in sunflowers
Community Feedback: Would You Have Told? by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
“That immersive discomfort, enjoyable and an end in itself, is all too rare in submissions—it’s my hope that by examining it here with Melisa, how it’s been developed and performed, we can walk away with a new understanding of how to approach difficult emotional subjects in our writing.”
Debt
“Taught us to levitate for a reasonable fee Fed us for a reasonable fee Gave us lung disease for a reasonable fee”
Palette Poetry Prize Finalists
Palette Poetry is honored to share with everyone the finalist list of poems for the Palette Poetry Prize. Shane McCrae currently has the fifteen poems and will select the winner in November. We can’t wait to share with you the winning poem!
What We Carry
By Sarah Carey
“Mailboxes open, close / like gates to territory lost, or mouths of birds // our hopeful hands still feed, the gone forever get, / the passages we carry inside.”