We’re pleased to announce that Andrew Grace selected Sarah Aronson’s collection And Other Bodiless Powers to receive the 2018 New American Poetry Prize! Sarah’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Portland Review, Bellingham Review, Bennington Review, Yemassee, Camas, St. Petersburg Revie, Cirque, Boiler, Zymbol and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana, Sarah currently lives in Missoula, where she operates a small private psychotherapy practice and a public radio program. She will receive $1,000 and her collection, And Other Bodiless Powers, will be released in 2019.
Finalists for the 2018 New American Poetry Prize include:
—Body Fires, by Hannah Baggott of Fayetteville, NC
—The Crossing, by Joseph Fasano of Middletown, NY
—Crossing Bone River, by Jed Myers of Seattle, WA
—The Far End of Haste, by Jane Wayne of St Louis, MO
—North of Paradise, by Rimas Uzgiris of Vilnius, Lithuania
—Notes on an Arsenic Spring, by Mark McKain of St. Petersburg, FL
—Pocketbook, by Patty Seyburn of Newport Beach, CA
