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Announcing the Winner and Runners-Up for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize

Erica Bernheim, of Lakeland, Florida, has won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize for her manuscript, The Mimic Sea. The award includes a $1,000 prize and publication by 42 Miles Press, as well as a future reading at Indiana University South Bend upon publication. Her work has appeared in such places as The Canary, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Barn Owl Review and 26.

We anticipate publication in Fall, 2012.

The runners-up for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize are as follows:

Christopher Bursk, Happiness Anonymous, first runner-up
Cori A. Winrock, Anti-Portrait at Flashback, second runner-up
Emily Toder, The Actualities Came to Visit Me, third runner-up
Frank Montesonti, Quick Study in Unhappiness, fourth runner-up

a snapshot from The Mimic Sea:

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Entryway, the man in the doorway
murmured, or maybe it was incubator,
what you’d call those willing to hold
sixty-two hummingbirds, none bigger
than the common marshmallow, unmelted,

apodiformes, never meant to walk or to rest.

Consider: resting hummingbirds riding
raindrops to gramophones, heralding
concepts like sullenly perfumed lovers
from beyond the pale. Sideways, they
revise their patterns and pray for light.

*part one of the poem, “A Dissimulation of Hummingbirds,” published previously in Canarium One, 2008

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Finalists for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest

Here is the list of semi-finalists and finalists for the 2011 Contest:

Finalists
Laurel Bastian – Rapacity
Erica Bernheim – The Mimic Sea
Christopher Bursk – Happiness Anonymous
Joshua Corey – The Nature Theater of Oklahoma: A Singspiel
Todd Fredson – The Crucifix-Blocks
Stuart Friebert – Floating Heart
Henrietta Goodman – Hungry Moon
Erin Malone – Hover
Frank Montesonti – Quick Study in Unhappiness
Mary Quade – Local Extinctions
Kirk Robinson – The Classics, and Other Close Calls
Tim Skeen – Six Coefficients of Friction
Emily Toder – The Actualities Came to Visit Me
Cori A. Winrock – Anti-Portrait at Flashback

Semi-Finalists
Rebecca Aronson – Understory
Judith Azrael – Twelve Black Horses
Ansie Baird – Strategies for an Enclosed Space
Tina Barr – Kaleidoscope
Anne Caston – The Empress of Longing
Dion N. Farquhar – Wonderful Terrible
Mary Flanagan – The Myth of Continents
Les Gottesman – Just Ask and Other Poems
William Greenway – Self-Deliverance
John Wesley Horton – A New World Where We Could Stand To Live
Amy King – The Biennale Book
Donald Levering – The Dog of the Apocalypse
M. Loncar – but i’m not a dick (i’m a reporter)
Richard Lyons – Living Time
Amy McNamara – the new head chronometrist
Eric Rawson – Dead-End Bridge
Cedric Tillman – Lily in the Valley
Cody Todd – Portraits and Motion
Sasha West – The Immaculate Conception of Loneliness

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Announcing the Finalists of the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest

Here is the list of both finalists and semi-finalists for this year’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest.

Keep in touch here for further updates. This list will be updated to distinguish between finalists and semi-finalists on July 1.

We also expect to announce the winner of the Contest before July 4.

2011 Finalists:
Rebecca Aronson – Understory
Judith Azrael – Twelve Black Horses
Ansie Baird – Strategies for an Enclosed Space
Tina Barr – Kaleidoscope
Laurel Bastian – Rapacity
Erica Bernheim – The Mimic Sea
Christopher Bursk – Happiness Anonymous
Anne Caston – The Empress of Longing
Joshua Corey – The Nature Theater of Oklahoma: A Singspiel
Dion N. Farquhar – Wonderful Terrible
Mary Flanagan – The Myth of Continents
Todd Fredson – The Crucifix-Blocks
Stuart Friebert – Floating Heart
Henrietta Goodman – Hungry Moon
Les Gottesman – Just Ask and Other Poems
William Greenway – Self-Deliverance
John Wesley Horton – A New World Where We Could Stand To Live
Amy King – The Biennale Book
Donald Levering – The Dog of the Apocalypse
M. Loncar – but i’m not a dick (i’m a reporter)
Richard Lyons – Living Time
Erin Malone – Hover
Amy McNamara – the new head chronometrist
Frank Montesonti – Quick Study in Unhappiness
Mary Quade – Local Extinctions
Eric Rawson – Dead-End Bridge
Kirk Robinson – The Classics, and Other Close Calls
Tim Skeen – Six Coefficients of Friction
Cedric Tillman – Lily in the Valley
Cody Todd – Portraits and Motion
Emily Toder – The Actualities Came to Visit Me
Sasha West – The Immaculate Conception of Loneliness
Cori A. Winrock – Anti-Portrait at Flashback

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Christine Garren’s chapbook is now available at 42 Miles Press

Christine Garren’s chapbook, The Difficult Here, is now available at 42 Miles Press.

Cost: $12.00

If you are interested in purchasing a copy, please write a check to Indiana University.

If you have any questions about making a purchase, please contact McKenzie Tozan at 42milespress@gmail.com.

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A View into The Difficult Here:

The Lamp

it is midnight, but I have found the lamp

of the forest

left on, always left on – this waterfall – its surge – its white

wattage lights the hall of woods –

the rock’s moss – the stick paths – this lamp left on

does

what you once did – my missed one – come again –

annihilate

the dark

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Announcing the Winner of the 2010 42 Miles Press Poetry Award

Carrie Oeding, of Houston, Texas, has won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award for her manuscript, Our List of Solutions. The award includes a $1,000 dollar prize and publication by 42 Miles Press. Her work has appeared in the Best New Poets, 2005 anthology and several journals including DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, 32 Poems, Mid-American Review, Third Coast, Gulf Coast, Greensboro Review, Barn Owl Review, South Dakota Review, storySouth and Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Brenda Hillman selected her poems for second place in The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 2009 Juried Reading Award. She earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University. She then held a post-doctoral Fellowship from Ohio University where she received her Ph.D. and was awarded the Claude Kantner Fellowship. Carrie currently teaches as a Houston Writing Fellow.

from Our List of Solutions:

“Someone come back and ask me to stay
so I can feel good about getting my tires rotated
and leave.”

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Announcing the Finalists for the 2010 42 Miles Press Poetry Award

*Finalists

*Ansie Baird, Strategies for an Enclosed Space
Rebecca Aronson, Afterglow
*Peter Jay Shippy, Unearthlings
*Carrie Oeding, Our List of Solutions
Donald Levering, Algonquins Planted Salmon
*Henrietta Goodman, Hungry Moon
Gail Newman, One World
Jennifer Barber, Given Away
Sharon Chmielarz, In This Clockless Time
*m loncar, “but i’m not a dick (i’m a reporter)”
*Amy McNamara, The New Head Chronometrist
*Katie Umans, Flock Book
Barbara Louise Unger, Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life
*Todd Fredson, The Crucifix-Blocks
*Mark Wisniewski, Come August
*Allan Peterson, Nothing That Simple
Carol Guess, Rogue Agent Burlesque
*Nils Michals, Chantepleure
Johnny Horton, Theater of the Misheard
George Moore, Children’s Drawings of the Universe
Amanda Reynolds, Ghost City
Sarah Stern, My Father’s Hat
Peter Klein, House Hold
Lou Lipsitz, If This World Falls Apart
Herman Beavers, Omphalos
Andrew Gottlieb, Ritual Leavings
Stephen Massimilla, Almost a Second Thought
Mark Neeley, Dogs of Indiana
Kyle Flak, a tiny feeling that our house has legs
Elaine Terranova, Ghost Wife
Kevin McKelvey, Brute Ecology
Melissa Morphew, Bluster
*Robert Grunst, Orange, Lion, Train Wreck

The winner will be announced on July 9

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42 Miles to Release New Chapbook from Christine Garren

A new chapbook of poems, written since Garren’s The Piercing appeared in 2006, will be published by 42 Miles Press in late summer/fall, 2010. Here is a sample, a poem that originally appeared in Poetry:

The Water

they fetched the water

and then when they reached the house, it was useless

fecal and chemical–

miles they’d walked– a life

along a ridge on into the next country, to the covert waterfall–

had they been dreaming?

yes, they had been dreaming–

that was her favorite part– the dream part– all the sun and

chrysanthemums

and the poppies

by a church wall– the dream part

when the water gatherers were certain

they could ease their mother’s dying