Best New Poets 2009

We would like to congratulate all the poets selected for the 2009 Best New Poets anthology, especially Pilar Gomez-Ibanez, author of “Losing Bedrock Farm."

The poem "Losing Bedrock Farm" was IR's 2008 Poetry Contest Winner and you can find the poem in our Winter 2008 issue. Congratulations, Pilar!

Announcements

Hey Blue Light Readers! We've updated our website with a few things of interest:
-- the 2009 1/2 K winner, runners-up, and finalists (also posted below)
-- the 2009 Fiction Prize guidelines! Deadline for the contest is October 15th, so get writing!

We've just returned to our office after a (much needed) break so if you've emailed/mailed us in the past couple of weeks, we'll be getting back to you soon. We've had a wonderful summer with y'all and are looking forward to a rockin fall!

-Nina

2009 Half-K Prize Winner

We are pleased today to announce the results of the 2009 1/2 K Prize. Our final judge was Lydia Davis. A few of her books include a novel, The End of the Story, and four full-length story collections—Varieties of Disturbance, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, Almost No Memory, and Break It Down. Her work has also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry and The Best American Stories.


And the winner is...

2009 Indiana Review 1/2K Prize Winner

“I Was Lucky That the Furniture Was Ugly”

Rebecca Bridge

Runners-Up

“Bering”
Joe Caliguire

“Holding up traffic as if to say”
Elizabeth Wilcox

“The Fifth Date”
Marie Potoczny

This is Our Final Answer!

Yay! It has been a fun contest and great to hear from all the blog-readers. The final question in the July Trivia Contest was answered quickly and correctly by Elizabeth.

The face on the "Support Your Local Poet" button was none other than Mr. Walt Whitman, also pictured here with his nice and fluffy beard. In honor of the poet, and summertime itself, please enjoy this poem by Walt Whitman himself.

Continuities

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

Blue Light Contest Round 4: Guess Who?

For the final round of of our July Giveway, we've turned to a photo clue.

The current Indiana Poet Laureate draws his motivation for his position from a button he received with this famous poet's image. Can you tell us who's on this button?

Quickly email your answer to inreview (at) indiana (dot) edu with "Blue Light Contest" in the subject line. The first person to correctly identify the poet will receive a FREE copy of our latest issue.

Check back Monday for the results.

Round 3 Answer Revealed!

The oft-adapted novel Brewster's Millions was written by Indiana's very own George Barr McCutchen! Did you know that not one but TWO feature films based off of his novel were made in India? Crazy!

Well folks, as all great trivia giveaways must come to an end, we'll post our final Blue Light Contest trivia question this Wednesday. As always, only the swiftest answerer will receive a totally free copy of the Indiana Review's most recent issue! Good Luck!

Blue Light Contest Round 3: The "Millions" Dollar Question

Another Wednesday, another Blue Light Contest question! Here we go:

What is the name of the Indiana author whose 1902 novel would be adapted for the theater and silver screen nearly a dozen times, the most notable of which starred Richard Pryor and John Candy in 1985?

E-mail your answers to inreview (at) indiana (dot) edu with the subject "Blue Light Contest". The fastest correct response wins a FREE copy of our latest issue!

Check back Monday for the results.