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Special Feature: Lynn Strongin

An Introduction to Lynn Strongin by Jason Sanford

Wearing Olive Drab: An Interview with Lynn Strongin by Jason Sanford

Lynn Strongin Poetry Retrospective: New and Classic Poems (Part 1) – From Paschal Poem: Now in the green year’s turning | Archer | Ascent | Sayre (Woman Professor) | I’d Give the World For It, Sayre | From: First Aspen

Lynn Strongin Poetry Retrospective: New and Classic Poems (Part 2) – Legs Silver | Sowing Southland | Children in Tree

Lynn Strongin Poetry Retrospective: New and Classic Poems (Part 3) – Defeat | Childhood’s Fever Dream | Untitled | Otherworlds | Untitled

Special Feature: The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition

The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepts one-poem submissions and honors poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly eighteen years. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame who left behind nine books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, four children’s books, five anthologies, a bestselling academic novel, a translation of Goethe’s Faust, Part I, and a translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, produced on Broadway by The Actors’ Studio.

The 2023 competition was judged by poet Corrie Lynn White.

Winner: Ode to the Man Playing “Amazing Grace” Badly on the Trumpet in the Strip Mall Parking Lot by Joshua Martin

Runner-Up: The Bread Maker’s Last Testament by Maria Rouphail

Honorable Mentions: Winter Ball by Barry Peters | Propagating Pitcher Plants by Melinda Thomsen

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