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2008 Gerald Stern Poetry Prize
Poem I Would Rather Your Mother Not Read   Christina Olson *
Buffalo: One Thousand Feet   Christina Olson *
Dark Bars   Christina Olson *
First Four   Christina Olson *
The Why   Christina Olson *
   
Little Known Fact Number One   Richard Garcia
Tickling the Ivories   William Doreski
Curtsy to the Drain Pipe   kelly boyker
The 37th Secret Love Poem   Arlene Ang
Jane   Morgan Harlow
Caveat Emptor   Melody Sage
Vanilla   L. J. Sysko *
Powers   Aaron Shulman *
After Montale   William Doreski
Lives in Decline   Jayne Pupek
Orpheus' Head, Still Singing   Brandi George
No One   Richard Garcia *
letter to me at 22, from me at 52   Margaret Stawowy
Relic   Arlene Ang
Gravitational Lens   George Moore
Their Eyes Were Open § VII   Anne Marie Macari
Their Eyes Were Open § VIII   Anne Marie Macari
S & R   Morgan Harlow
Dinner Party   Jayne Pupek
Thanksgiving Dinner in July   Joanne Edelmann
lobelia   Nanette Rayman Rivera
To the Light, Darkly   Ted Jonathan
Ismene   Brandi George *
Sally   Morgan Harlow *
This dirty napkin   Arlene Ang *

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