The results of the 2018 Snowbound Chapbook Award

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Eduardo C. Corral has selected as winner of the 2018 Snowbound Chapbook Award:

Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era

by Chad Bennett

From the Judge’s Citation by Eduardo C. Corral:

“Bright with unexpected phrasing, uncanny chants, and curious imagery, the poems in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era make visible the queerness of language. The vulnerability and the vision are queer, too. And so is the struggle to hitch the self to pleasure and to the chaotic present. The nods to musicians and to writers and the formal range infuse the poems with a peculiar history and playfulness. Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era is a remarkable chapbook. Bravo!”

Chad Bennett is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Offing, The Volta,and other journals, and have been reprinted in Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is the author of Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), a study of poetry and the queer art of gossip.

Runners-up:

John James, Futurisms
Lydia Ship, Four Letter Heaven
Mark Wagenaar, Hallelujah in a Dead Tongue

Finalists:

Kaveh Bassiri, 99 Names of Exile
Kelly Caldwell, Letters to Forget
Lisa Hiton, The Clearing
Lisa Hiton and Richie Hofmann, Speyer
Page Richards, How I Learned to Drink Coffee
Billie Tadros, Diastema, Elegy and Bone
Emily Wolahan, What we have lost

Semifinalists:

Fay Dillof, Push Me Pull You
Mary Kane, Occupation
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Black Wick
Dan Kraines, Licht
Wayne Miller, Carillon
Emily Pittinos, Subnivean
Sara Saab, Bricolage on Sunday
Hannah Treasure, Loophole
H.R. Webster, What Follows

We’d like to recognize and thank so very appreciatively our extraordinary panel of preliminary readers: Ruth Baumann, Wendy Chen, Jennifer S. Cheng, Ruth Danon, Catherine Kyle, Eileen G’Sell, Tyler Mills, and Claire Wahmanholm.

Finally, and no less important, we offer our deep gratitude to all who submitted manuscripts, and who, by your writing, join in the tireless, solitary, and so-important work of making poetry.

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