Poetry Contest Winner, Honorable Mentions, and Finalists

We've received final judge Kevin Prufer's selections, and we're happy to announce that the winner of the 2011 Copper Nickel contest in poetry is

• Ruth Awad for her poem "Kata Doksa."

Prufer named four poems as Honorable Mentions:

• Jeffrey Bahr's "Note to the Newly Lost"
• Corinna Schroeder's "On the Last Day of Our Wild Year"
• Jacob Newberry's "The Horses Perishing"
• Cori Winrock's "Wrestlers in Winter"

We'd also like to extend congratulations to the rest of our finalists:

• Gina Evers, "When I Miss My Mother"
• Mark Rice, "What We Know"
• Brian Brodeur, "When Everyone I Loved Was Still Alive"
• Caroline Cahill, "Dear Watson"
• Matt More, "If You Are This Brontide" and "The Second Time I Read Moby-Dick You Drown"
• Angie DeCola, "One Afternoon I Watched Him Crawl"
• Matthew Minicucci, "Epithet"
• Joshua R. Helms, "Iterations," "Conflation" and "Denoument"
• Emilia Phillips, "Blues Dream"

The winning poem, the honorable mentions, and these finalist poems will appear in our 17th issue, due out in February 2012 at AWP in Chicago.

Thanks to all who entered, and all who read Copper Nickel. We'll announce our fiction winners soon, and we'll present the details of our 2012 contest in October.