2009: manuscripts received

[ S C R O L L   D O W N  for this year’s Becker, Keystone, ReBound logs]

Robin Becker Chapbook Prize
(postmarked or emailed between March 1 and May 15):

  • The Answer Is a Shudder *
  • Arrival by Fire
  • Bachelor Buttons
  • The Bees Have Not Yet Left *
  • The Beheading
  • Big Sur Docent Tells All *
  • Camouflage
  • A Childhood as Mythology
  • Closer *
  • cosas/things
  • Cry Me a Lorca * –published in our inaugural Summer Kitchen Series!
  • Curl *
  • Deviant
  • Edge of the Touchstone
  • Floating in an Eddy of Femme
  • Fragile: Do Not Touch
  • From the Last Days
  • Ghost Girl
  • Grace
  • The Graffiti Poems
  • The Healing Power of Desire
  • Homoneurotica
  • Hours
  • I Should Write Soap Operas
  • In Absentia
  • In Bed with Nuns
  • In the Distance *
  • In the Time It Takes to Build
  • Inland Sea (1)
  • INLAND SEA (2) **Co-winner**
  • Kahikinaokala: The Rising of the Sun
  • Last of the Happy-Go-Lucky
  • A Lie, a Farce, and a Fake
  • Light Stream
  • Love, or Whatever It Was
  • Love in Idleness *
  • Meditation Medley
  • Men in Groups –published by Winged City Chapbooks
  • Metanoia
  • The Museum of Natural History
  • Nest * –published in our inaugural Summer Kitchen Series!
  • Notes on a Silver Print
  • O, Reader *
  • Of a Bed Frame
  • Old News–The Bond Between My Father and Me
  • On Beauty and the Beautiful Señor
  • Pascal’s Wager
  • Pirate Radio
  • The place on high was our shared mystery
  • A Pock. A Lip Cyst.
  • The Poet’s Zodiac * –published in our Summer Kitchen Series!
  • Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past *
  • SCAVENGE  **Co-winner**
  • Shadows Undone by Light: Reframing Paul Cadmus
  • Shelter
  • Shift * –published in our inaugural Summer Kitchen Series!
  • ships in the night *
  • Sisterhood * –published in our inaugural Summer Kitchen Series!
  • 60,000
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • Some Queer Poison
  • Soot –co-winner of the Keystone Chapbook Prize!
  • Spectrum
  • The Spiderboi Files
  • Spit It Out
  • Suite Sixteen
  • The Takeaway Bin
  • Talk of Virgins
  • Tense
  • this now is that then (a membrane) (a notebook)
  • To the Refrigerator Gods * –published in our Editor’s Series!
  • The Triangle Quartet: Poems of October & November
  • True Nature
  • Under the placid moon
  • Undressing *
  • Undue attachments
  • Upon Necessary Things
  • versions of lissome becoming pure let
  • Waxwings * –published in our inaugural Summer Kitchen Series!
  • What I Am Is Vibration, Irritation, and Stillness
  • What the Dust Had Made
  • Zamioculcas

Keystone Chapbook Prize
(postmarked or emailed between May 1 and July 15):

  • After the Reception
  • Alternating Currents
  • The Beheading
  • Carbon Copy
  • A Collection of Weather
  • Dancing to Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones in Coaldale, Pennsylvania
  • End Papers
  • An Eye Fluent in Gray * –published in our Editor’s Series!
  • Eyes Like Broken Windows
  • Family Matters
  • First Revision *
  • The Flapping of Velvet Feathers
  • French Creek *
  • Glass Anchor *
  • Goings On
  • I Know When to Keep Quiet
  • In Glass
  • Irretrievable Music *
  • The Leavings * (runner-up)
  • Lehigh Valley Lyrics
  • The Long Fall
  • The Most Dangerous Profession
  • On Being Human
  • Portrait of a Woman
  • Prometheus Unwanted
  • Remains to be Seen
  • Roots and Eyes
  • Ruinenwert
  • THE SCHWENKFELDERS   **Co-winner**
  • Since Pennsylvania *
  • SOOT  **Co-winner**
  • Spring Buzzard
  • Still Life
  • Steel Season *
  • Summer of Love
  • Survivor’s Passage
  • Tongue
  • Towards Euphoria * –forthcoming in our Editor’s Series!
  • The Tree Cutter & Other Poems
  • Twilight *
  • Ursa Minor a Beauty Mark * (runner-up)
  • Valley Voices *
  • Vigil
  • Woman in a Jug Band

Rebound Chapbook Series
(postmarked or emailed between October 1 and December 15):

  • Angel Pays a Visit
  • At the Club
  • The Ghost of the Buick
  • The Separation of Kin
  • A Story Also Grows
  • ORDINANCES  **Winner**
  • Wordrows

* – finalists

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