Sherry Chandler

JBB and THR

Passing on the text of an e-mail from Mick Kennedy down at ECTC:

Below is a list of winners and finalists for the 2006 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. We received 567 entries from 23 states, quite an increase from last year. And I want to thank all of those who supported the contest and those who helped with performing the initial reading. Last Thursday, ECTC’s Morrison Gallery Poetry Series hosted our fourth annual National Poetry Month Celebration, which featured Lisa Williams, the judge for this year’s contest, and Sherry Chandler and Woods Nash.

It was an interesting evening, for a transformer somewhere in town blew out, and the attendees were left in darkness. But poetry can not be stopped! We utilized some pen lights and continued on. Some remarked that it gave the reading a medieval flavor, while others invoked Chaucer and Plato. The lights came on just in time for Lisa’s reading; I encourage you all to get her The Hammered Dulcimer, which won the May Swenson prize. We have a few signed copies in ECTC’s bookstore.

As for The Heartland Review, we are switching to summer/winter issues, for it is quite difficult to churn it out the last weeks of the semester. The upcoming issue will be worth the wait. My best to you all, and happy poetry month!

Cheers,

Mick Kennedy

First Place: Walking Taft Highway
Sherry Chandler
Paris, KY

Second Place: Van Gogh in Auvers, 1890
Woods Nash
Knoxville, TN

Third Place: Too Beer Bottle Smashed to Stop the Momentum
Christian Lund
New York, NY

Finalists:

Every Breath a Prayer
Sally Bingham
Santa Fe, NM

Something There Is &
Making Tomatoes
Trish Lindsey Jaggers
Smiths Grove, KY

Bemesha Swing
Woods Nash
Knoxville, TN

Bending Over
Rudy Thomas
Columbia, KY

Homeward &
Lacrosse
Frederick Smock
Louisville, KY

Prayer for a Competitive Ballroom Dancer
Teneice Delgado
Toledo, OH

Terrazzo &
Small Hours
David Cazden
Lexington, KY

Enigma
Carolanne Conerly Griffin
Louisville, KY

Mad Girl in Recovery
Allison Joseph
Carbondale, IL

OK Life
Dena K. Skees
Prospect, KY

At Bird Creek
Kathy Knuckles Barbour
Madison, IN

Soft White Petals
John T. Bensing
Louisville, KY

The Fire Bringers
Pamela Steele
Pendleton, OR

Irreconcilable Differences
James H. Bowden
Louisville, KY

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And the winners are…

Joy Bale Boone Prize 2006

The Heartland Review

Heartland Review Short-Short Fiction Prize

KSPS Contest

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