2018 Louis Award Winner
The field of entries this year for the Louis Award was impressive. Contest judge Timons Esaias has selected the Winner: Jerome Gagnon age 70, from the Bay Area, CA, for his manuscript Rumors of Wisdom. Timons enjoyed all the manuscripts he read and found it very challenging to select a winner.
Timons had this to say about Rumors of Wisdom: "What impressed me throughout was that the poems tended to be about very specific things, or memories, or details, even when being used metaphorically for bigger things. And the details were interesting and mostly fresh."
Poem from Rumors of Wisdom
Gifts
They’ve come so far to be here
this one time,
slice of a moment we notice briefly
before it passes into something else,
expecting the usual curves they bring us,
the subtle flesh scent
as we come to them, not in awe, exactly,
but more in gratitude
for how they’ve suddenly ripened,
for their promised sweetness,
and not especially for the shifting umbras
that help to define them
but which are still notable —
these two late and freckled pears,
gleaming on a windowsill.
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Second: W. Luther Jett
Flying to America
Finalists
Eileen Kennedy
Carl Winderl
Connie Zumpf
The Book of Foreign Births
the Gospel according ... to Mary
Strangers I Think I Know
Semi-Finalists
Robert Brown
Linda Burt
John Laue
Dennis H. Lee
Angela Leone
Karen Maceira
Ann Miller
Tom Schmidt
Jane Schulman
Heidi Seaborn
Joanna White
Honorable Mention
Jan Hanson
Deborah Jang
Stephen J. Kudless
Pat McCutcheon
Ginny O'Brien
Sarah Russell
Danny Earl Simmons
Lillo Way
