Announcing 2021 Poetry Finalists!

Here are our Finalists in the 2021 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest: “Uncanny” by Paula Lambert “Trench” by Benjamin Busch “The One and the Many” by Naomi Lowinsky “In Your Stars” by Naomi Lowinsky “Perturbances” by Mary O’Melveny “Kettle of Fish” by Mara Grayson “I Never Pushed My Daughter” by Tom…

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Review of Susanna Lang’s Self-Portraits

Susanna Lang’s chapbook Self-Portraits, which appears as the first of three chapbooks in Blue Lyra Press’s Delphi Series Vol. IX, is a grouping of twenty-five short poems, all inspired by the artwork and lives of women artists. Specifically, each poem is based on either a specific work of art by…

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Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest – 2020 Winners!

And, we have winners! As selected by 2020 contest judge Shin Yu Pai: First Place: David Ian Bickley, with Paul Casey, Aidan Stanley, and Elgan Loane, for “Marsh” Second Place: Lea Wülferth and Derek Muro, for “Pursuit of Sadness” Third Place: Rich Ferguson, for “Everything is Radiant Between the Hates”…

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