2013 River Styx International Poetry Contest

The 2013 River Styx International Poetry Contest winners, judged by Terrance Hayes, are featured in River Styx‘s latest issue:

First Place
Molly Bashaw: “A Talk With Chagall”

Second Place
Lois Marie Harrod: “Woman Finds Her Face”

Third Place
Robert Campbell: “Arrhythmia’

Honorable Mentions
Jennifer Perrine: “Confidence Game”
Robert Heald: “Twelve Dreams About You”

Hayes wrote that the winning poem “stood out because of its scale and range of tone. It is propelled by wonderful imagination, tone and imagery. Lines like this one stayed with me: ‘You would think someone watched over these scenes with a whip made of wheat.'”