Fairhope 2013 Poetry Prize
Undergraduate Winner: "The Tower of Babel" by Chelsea Weller, Tulane University
Chelsea Weller an undergraduate student at Tulane University, and in the past year, has become wholeheartedly immersed in the poetry community there. She is currently enrolled in two poetry classes, as was the case last semester, and is working on building a portfolio and submitting her work to various journals and contests.
GCACWT Poetry Judge Gary McDowell's commentary:
The Situational Surrealists of the world can now rejoice! Tate, Edson, Simic, et al would be proud of the voice given here to the ponderer, the thinker, the poet brave enough to look past constraint, through the bubble that keep us “echoing “back.”
GCACWT Poetry Judge Gary McDowell's commentary:
The Situational Surrealists of the world can now rejoice! Tate, Edson, Simic, et al would be proud of the voice given here to the ponderer, the thinker, the poet brave enough to look past constraint, through the bubble that keep us “echoing “back.”
Graduate Winner: "The Inaccuracies of Grief: HIV, 2007," Megan McHugh, University of New Orleans
Megan McHugh is a gardener living in New Orleans.
GCACWT Poetry Contest Judge Gary McDowell's Commentary:
An astonishing erudite, complex, punctuationally exciting poem, [McHugh shows us that] grief isn’t enough, much like elegy simply defies definition; Thom Gunn chronicled the “night sweats,” but here we traverse grief and are sent “sobbing into the ocean.” A brilliant poem!
Megan McHugh is a gardener living in New Orleans.
GCACWT Poetry Contest Judge Gary McDowell's Commentary:
An astonishing erudite, complex, punctuationally exciting poem, [McHugh shows us that] grief isn’t enough, much like elegy simply defies definition; Thom Gunn chronicled the “night sweats,” but here we traverse grief and are sent “sobbing into the ocean.” A brilliant poem!