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Announcing The 2024 NaPoMo Winner & Finalists

Bibiana Ossai

This time, we selected Katie Hartsock’s “Museums” as the IHLR NaPoMo winner which our poetry editor, Geffrey Davis, served as final judge. Katie Hartsock grew up around Youngstown, Ohio, where Mill Creek Park remains one of her favorite places in the world. She is the author of Wolf Trees and Bed of Impatiens, both from Able Muse Press. She is an associate professor of English at Oakland University, where she teaches creative writing, English literature, and classical mythology. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband and their two young sons. Her work has appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, POETRY, 32 Poems, Thrush, The Greensboro Review, Arion, Iron Horse Literary Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Plume, The Threepenny Review, The New Criterion, RHINO, Dappled Things, Mezzo Cammin, Nimrod, Image, Birimingham Poetry Review, Literary Matters, and Rattle’s Poets Respond, and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Ecotone, At Length, Commonweal, Ekstasis, ONE ART, New Verse Review, and Classical Outlook. Her current manuscripts include The Last Crusade (containing yes, some Indiana Jones poems) and The Iliad Rewilded, a hybrid text combining translation with vignettes of the epic’s ancient audiences and creative commentary. 


Katie Hartsock, winner of the IHLR NaPoMo contest


We chose Greg Sevik’s “Le Trappiste”and Jason Gray’s “Autumn, Amherst” as our runners-up. Greg Sevik is a poet, translator, and English professor at the Community College of Baltimore County. His poems and translations have been published in the Big Windows Review, the Ekphrastic ReviewInventory, and elsewhere. His essays have appeared in such publications as the Emily Dickinson Journal and Style. While Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize (Ohio UP). He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in PoetryThe American Poetry ReviewThe Kenyon ReviewLiterary ImaginationPoetry Ireland Review, and many other places. He has also reviewed poetry, nonfiction, and fiction for The Southern ReviewThe Missouri ReviewShenandoahThe Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted on Verse Daily. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things.

 

Congratulations to Katie Hartsock, our runners-up, and all our finalists!

 

 

Finalists:

 

 

Katie Hartsock, “There Is the Sea, and Who Can Drain It Dry?”

Tara Ballard, “My Academic Training Wants Me to Title This ‘Southern Pastoral’”

Ian Hall, “Love in the Time of Company Towns”

Shannan Mann, “On my first mention of divorce”

Lindsay D’Andrea, “Fossil Record Reveals Early Cambrian Origins”

Lindsay, D’Andrea, “Ferragosto”

Julia Kolchinsky, “Skin hunger”

Jennifer Edwards, “Hanky”

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