This week presenting the winners of the
2015 (18th annual) Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest:
M. Brett Gaffney, Trish Hopkinson and Helen Townsend
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M. Brett Gaffney
mbrettgaffney@gmail.com
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M. Brett Gaffney won first place in the 2015 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. She is originally from Houston, Texas, is an MFA student in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and an associate editor of Gingerbread House literary magazine. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Medulla Review, Newfound, Ruminate, Psaltery & Lyre, Stone Highway Review, Slipstream, and Wind.
The following work is Copyright © 2015, and owned by M. Brett Gaffney and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Goldilocks When you come home tonight, |
Trish Hopkinson
trishhopkinsonpoet@gmail.com
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Trish Hopkinson won second place in the 2015 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. She has always loved words—in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. She has two chapbooks Emissions and Pieced Into Treetops has been published in several anthologies and journals, including The Found Poetry Review, Chagrin River Review, and Reconnaissance Magazine. She is a project manager by profession and resides in Provo, Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children. You can follow her poetry adventures at http://trishhopkinson.com/ or on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/trishhopkinsonpoet.
The following work is Copyright © 2015, and owned by Trish Hopkinson and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Footnote to a Footnote Jacuzzis are holy. |
Helen Townsend
prsgrlks@gmail.com
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Helen Townsend won third place in the 2015 Poetry Super Highway poetry contest. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. “One of my favorite things is sitting down to write or revise, and when I look at the clock, hours have gone by. Everyone who writes or makes art or has a great conversation has experienced that. It feels like a glimpse of eternity.”
The following work is Copyright © 2015, and owned by Helen Townsend and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Three Wishes This dragonfly I followed in traffic, |
