contemporary poetry
Congratulations on winning the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award with A Mass Choir of Little Things!
T. Liem: In this work images and memories accumulate with a weighted pace, whole stanzas repeat like time-slowing refrains, and certain words become chant-like as in “A Letter from The Sea” with sea and see. This feels like a particular kind of musicality. Would you talk about where your experience as a drummer intersects with your experience of composing poetry?
Ockert Greeff, for his chapbook: “A Mass Choir of Little Things” Excerpt from chapbook: * * * I let go of my yellow lunchbox Watch it swirl away in the dark water Past the boy who cannot give up He is swimming, lifting his arms up High out of the water, […]
We are thrilled to present six exciting and beautiful chapbooks as finalists. Click through below to read excerpts and come back soon to find out the winner!
from Show and Tell, a collaborative chapbook by André Babyn, Sasha Manoli, and Misha Solomon, a collective finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
from Tinderbox by Zak Jones, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
from The Solve by Medrie Purdham, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
from Life Cycle of a Mayfly by Maya Clubine, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
from a short history of longing by Karan Kapoor, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
from Basement Bedroom by Alicia Byrne Keane, a finalist in the Vallum Chapbook Award contest for 2023
