2015 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize Winners

december literary magazine Spring/Summer 2015 includes the winners of their annual Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. First Place: Chelsea Jennings [pictured] for her poem “Heirloom” and Honorable Mention Sam Roxas-Shua for his poem “A Beast in the Chapel.” Contest judge Mary Szybist commented on the finalists, “It was difficult to select a winner from among the many terrifically interesting poems that were submitted to this year’s contest. In the end, however, these two poems . . . were the ones that took hold in my imagination, haunted me, and compelled me to return to them.”