Thank you to everyone who voted in the Book Spine Poetry Contest Poll! The results are in.
The top three winners will win a t-shirt with a poetry joke on it. (Hope you enjoy.) Winners, please send me a private email so I can send you the details, get your sizes, etc.
Thanks again, everyone, for participating!
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1st place: “Combined and uneven apocalypse” by Maia Almeida-Amir
Living in the end times
Utopia
Our history is still being written
2nd place: “In other worlds” by Cindy Clayton
A thousand splendid suns.
The lake of dreams,
The summer tree—
Everyone is beautiful.
.
The rest of life:
Something rotten.
Crime and punishment,
Truth and consequences—
The places that scare you.
.
I am the messenger:
Good omens!
The wake of forgiveness.
3rd place: “Raising My Teen” by Laine Little
Lost
The last battle
Between parent and child
No more misbehavin’
Celebration of discipline
Sappho's Torque 