{"id":38375,"date":"2024-12-23T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?page_id=38375"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:47:21","slug":"surrealist-prize-finalists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/surrealist-prize-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealist Prize Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2023 Surrealist Prize Finalists<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Issue 93: Meg Kelleher<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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Winner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2024\/05\/Nicolemes-Groves-Narration.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n

Nokomis Groves by Meg Kelleher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Who would I be if fear were not
my twin? Still me, still dreaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of wasted oranges? Sore & sour
as sweet long untouched,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but for the branch and its pinched
calculations\u2014each limb here cups<\/p>\n\n\n\n

an untapped sun. Daughter
of red tides, of coasts painted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in pain, I was hatched
to be cross-hatched, a stitch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

drawn in my skin. & from it
the line is juddering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to the peach-cheeked squatter
who shows me life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is but a license for haunting.
She mutters, You’re the child<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

you lost<\/em>. A mystery, a hide
to tear into with my teeth. I trap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

what’s left in the heat
of my palm: a dimpled skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in my fish-shape that turns
over & will not heed my calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So all my silver will spill on sand,
unclaimed. Who would take me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when the light gives itself away?<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Finalists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

David Keplinger<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“The Immortal Jellyfish”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Deduction”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yessica Martinez<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Lift”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annika T.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Fire, Our Lady of Paradise”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L.S. Klatt<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Mono”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Judge, Chris Howell, writes of the poem, “What I like particularly is that the poem is not only surreal, it is an actual poem. Not all of the finalists managed that; it was often one or the other, and most often the pieces seemed of strain for oddity or surprise and disregarded the matter of unity and the kind of circumstantial grammar that makes for a whole experience. So many ended up feeling kind of cluttered with arresting juxtapositions that failed to accumulate. This poem had strong, direct movement and a kind of liquidity, while still providing the kind of surprise and flexibility for which surrealism is justifiably famous.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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