2008 Poetry Contest Judge and Finalists

Martha Rhodes is the author of three collections of poetry: Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004), Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize), and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995). Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among other journals and in many anthologies including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director and founding editor of Four Way Books, a literary press based in New York City.


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Finalists for the 2008 contest:

Nothing Beween Us, The Berkeley Years
Wendy Barker

SPICARESQUE
Yago S. Cura

Persons
Cifford Paul Fetters

Travel Plans for Social Outcasts
Lisa Lewis

Geographies of Light
Lisa Suhair Majaj

The Metaphysical Slot Machine
Peter Moore

Little Disruptions
Biljana D. Obradovic

Job Rides the L Train
Doug Ramspeck

For Ambidextra, the Tenth Muse
Lynn Sadler

HER and HIM, The Ambiguities of and
Bonnie Stanard

Indulgences
Michael Steffen

Tourist
S. Quinlan