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Eureka Springs Wins 2nd Place in Poem of the Year |
| Posted by Administrator (admin) on Jan 08 2011 at 5:01 AM |
I'm honored to place 2nd in the IBPC's POTY with the crazy poem written after viewing a picture online of the big Jesus in Eureka Springs. Dana Goodyear was the judge and here is what she had to say:
I love the spirited, folksy way this poem comes on—it's like the character who sits down next to you on the bus and surprises you with an engaging conversation. The turn comes a third of the way through, when the big-hearted, slightly loopy generalizations become suddenly intimate: "The real/ Jesus never grew old and he was skinny./ I held him once, in college. I could feel/ his ribs. His heart hammered/ like a ruby-throated hummingbird,/ I felt the wind from his wings/ for years." The voice from here forward is personal, propulsive, and angered; the energy never slackens, and yet the mystery of the encounter at the poem's heart is allowed to remain. --Dana Goodyear
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