Jun 16, 2015
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Contest Winner Announced
Our imprint, Pebblebrook Press, recently held a poetry contest to celebrate the release of Mark Zimmermann's collection of lipograms, Impersonations. Entrants were challenged to write a poem using the lipogram constraint, which requires poets to deliberately exclude certain letters from their poems. Zimmermann was the judge; he read the poems blindly and selected Jason Primm's "Stoneboat" as the winner. Primm, whose short story "Light" appeared in Stoneboat 2.1, used only the letters in the poem's title to compose his work, which appears below.
Stoneboat
An eon
sane.
No boots.
No boats.
No bent notes.
One soon noon?
As season
ebbs,
beat sonatas
on stone.
Toast taboos.
Nose ears.
Eat beast.
Boast:
“O Babe!”,
“O boon!”
As oboes
sob.
Judge Mark Zimmerann says, "In the winning poem, 'Stoneboat,' the author sets to work with only seven letters to use—a very challenging constraint—and comes up with a free associative word salad of sound and image that embodies the kinds of surprises that can result from lipogrammatic writing. Thanks to all who entered the contest. Your work shows, once again, that matters of poetic freedom, creative expression, and formal constraint aren’t mutually exclusive—not by a longshot."
The Pebblebrook Press team joins Zimmermann in thanking all of the poets who entered the contest. The work was creative, thought-provoking, and fun to read. Zimmermann had a difficult task in choosing just one winner, and we're glad we weren't charged with making the decision.
Zimmermann's collection of lipograms, which was released earlier this week from Pebblebrook Press, is available here.
The North American Review blog has given some exposure to a poetry collection of lipograms that’s due out from our imprint press, Pebblebrook, in a few weeks.
Portage Magazine reviewed Erik Richardson’s chapbook a berserker stuck in traffic and gave it two thumbs up. The book was published by our imprint, Pebblebrook Press. Buy a copy here: http://www.stoneboatwi.com/pebblebrook-press.html
We interviewed Wisconsin poet Mark Zimmermann about his forthcoming collection, Impersonations, due out this spring from Pebblebrook Press. It’s a great read! (Both the interview and the book...)
Write a poem, win a copy of Mark Zimmermann's forthcoming poetry collection, Impersonations. Follow the link for rules and information.