“Six Bright Horses and the Land of the Dead,” by Jen Silverman
[excerpt] When I first saw your picture, I was twenty years old. Winter 2005. I was coming off a Chicago street, smoky with December cold. Sheltering from the wind in the arch of the Smart Art Museum, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go in or not; then all of a sudden a sharp gust cut around the corner and sliced at my eyes, and I shouldered the door open and slipped into the startling heat of the lobby. From the moment I came upon...
“The Green Season,” by Jennifer Beebe
The coroner asked if she drank, her throat swollen to closing, front and back embracing the shape perhaps of a mouth around a screw-top bottle, or lips sucking juice from a too ripe pear. I could have told him late afternoon worked best for her, lips to rim, her arm from the window, yardarm, her armistice with the day, the orange of her nails a slow tick of sins along the window frame. I could have told him we anchor ourselves by...
Jessica Piazza Awarded 2011 To the Lighthouse Prize
Jessica Piazza’s poetry collection “Interrobang” has been selected by judge Eloise Klein Healy as the 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize winner. Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her B.S. in Journalism from Boston University, where she began work as the Favorite Poem Project, serving as an undergraduate intern for United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Jessica cofounded...
in the icehouse by Genevieve Kaplan
in the ice house by Genevieve Kaplan, To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Winner, 2009 Judge: Kate Gale, Ph.D. Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery, as well as...
Branden Boyer-White Awarded Fall 2011 Orlando Fiction Prize
BRANDEN BOYER-WHITE’s fiction has appeared in Third Coast Magazine and the Los Angeles Review, received Honorable Mention in the 2011 AWP Intro Journals Project, and was shortlisted for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. An ardent devotee of Virginia Woolf and gender-bending, she could not have been more thrilled to win the Orlando Prize and thanks, with a huge heart, A Room of Her Own. Branden lives in...
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