Congratulations to Michelle Bitting whose manuscript Good Friday Kiss was chosen by Thomas Lux to be the first De Novo Poetry Contest winner.  She will receive a $500 advance and her collection will be published in 2008.  About her manuscript, Lux writes, "There is something about these poems that is so immediate, so unflinching, so focused and visceral in their understatement, that I was, on first reading, astonished.  On second reading I was astonished and deeply moved.  On third reading I was astonished, deeply moved, and filled with joy!"

The De Novo runner-ups were Paul Hostovsky's Bending the Notes and Brent Goodman's The Brother Swimming Beneath Me.  For more information on the 2008 De Novo contest, click on the CONTEST link.

Congratulations also to Jon Veinberg whose manuscript The Speed Limit of Clouds won our 2007 Fall Poetry Series and will be published in early 2009.

The Fall Poetry Series runner-ups were Alison Luterman's See How We Almost Fly and Ron McFarland's Subtle Thieves.  For more information on the 2008 Fall Poetry Series, click on the CONTEST link.