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Jennifer Kronovet is the 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize winner for her first collection of poems, Awayward. Jean Valentine selected this manuscript from 17 semi-finalists and will write a Foreword to the published collection. Kronovet will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2009, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. (Mr. Poulin pictured, right.)
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Excerpt
from "Sleep Door" by Kazim Ali in his book The Fortieth Day
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a light knocking on the sleep door
like the sound of a rope striking
the side of a boat
heard underwater
boats pulling up alongside each other
. . .
you can find your way to me
by the faint star-lamp
we are a fleet now
our prows zeroing in
praying in the wind
to spin like haywire compasses
toward whichever direction
will have us
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