Announcing the Winners of the First Annual Driftless Prize

We are pleased to name Safiya Sinclair as the winner of the 2013 Driftless Prize in Poetry for her poems “Woman, Wound“ and “Notes on the State of Virginia, I“ and Katie Moulton as the winner of the 2013 Driftless Prize in Fiction for her short story “Here Is the Steeple.“ Each winner will receive an honorarium of $100 and will be featured in our upcoming spring issue. For a note from our editor as well as a list of finalists, read more here.

NEW REVIEW (5/3):

Paisley Rekdal,
Animal Eye

BY NANCY REDDY

The poems in Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye grip first with their keen attention to detail, as in the opening to the beautiful “Body of Stuffed Female Swift Fox, Natural History Museum”: “Nothing ever was this slinking, vicious, / glass eye embedded in its slitted red, skin / husked and sealed forever in a vacuum.” Though nearly all the poems here take animals of one sort or another as their ostensible subject—a childhood horse, a nightingale, salmon swimming upstream to spawn—they are also haunted by desire and loss, environmental disaster, family history, and the difficult legacy of American race relations. {MORE}

 

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