2015 Rusty Toque Poetry Chapbook Results

RUSTY TOQUE POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Hoa Nguyen. 

The wining manuscript will be available in the Spring 2016. Excerpts from all three manuscripts will appear in Issue 9 (Fall 2015) of The Rusty Toque.

Steven Alvarez

1st Place, Winner of the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest
Un/documented, Kentucky: A Poem in Ten Parts by Steven Alvarez
Prize: $800 (CAD) + chapbook publication (10 copies) + poetry prize pack + 3-year subscription to Poetry is Dead + 1-year subscription to Arc Poetry + an excerpt published in Issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Steven Alvarez is the author of the novels in verse The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2012), both published by Editorial Paroxismo. His chapbook Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus was awarded the 2012 Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize sponsored by Seven Kitchens Press. The Poetry Society of America recognized his poem "& So Tio & Chaley" as one of the best poems about Times Square. His poetry has appeared in Acentos Review, Anthropology and Humanism, Berkeley Review, Drunken Boat, Fence, and Huizache. He is Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. 

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Ashaki M. Jackson
Photo by Ana Ponzo

2nd Place Finalist
Language Lesson by Ashaki M. Jackson
Prize:  $100 (CAD) + a poetry prize pack + an excerpt published in issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Ashaki M. Jackson, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, program evaluator and poet who has worked with at-risk and post-incarceration youth through research, evaluation, and creative arts mentoring for one decade. She is a Cave Canem alumna, VONA alumna and WriteGirl mentor. Her work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Rkvry Quarterly, Suisun Valley Review, Inch Magazine, and Read Women: An Anthology (Locked Horn Press), among others. Dr. Jackson is also co-founder of Women Who Submit, a community that supports women in submitting their literary works to top tier journals. She earned her MFA (poetry) from Antioch University Los Angeles and her doctorate (social psychology) from Claremont Graduate University.

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Jeremy Hoevenaar

3rd Place Finalist
Immersion Kick by Jeremy Hoevenaar
Prize:  $100 (CAD) + a poetry prize pack + an excerpt published in issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Jeremy Hoevenaar lives with his beautiful family in Brooklyn, New York. Other than that, he is the author of Cold Mountain Mirror Displacement (American Books) and Adaptations of Pelt and Hoof (H_NGM_N).  Recent work also appears or is forthcoming in 6x6, Sensation Feelings Journal, The Portable Boog Reader #8, and A Perimeter.

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Thanks to our Sponsors

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors for their generous book and subscription donations: Anansi, Anvil Press, Arc Poetry Magazine, BookThug, Brick Books, Coach House Books, Mansfield Press, Poetry is Dead, and Wave Books, and thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their financial support.

Prize Pack Donations from Publishers
 
From House of Anansi Press
Congotronic by Shane Book
For Tamara by Sarah Lang
The Quiet by Anne-Marie Turza
Prologue for the Age of Consequence by Garth Martens
 
From Book Thug
Thou by Aisha Sasha John
Hang in There by Angela Carr
City, Book One—Singular Assumptions by Michael Boughn
Leak by Kate Hargreaves
Afterletters by R. Kolewe
 
From Brick Books
I see my love more clearly from a distance by Nora Gould
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
The Family China by Ann Shin
A Broken Bowl by Patrick Friesen
Thin Moon Psalm by Sheri Benning
 
From Coach House Books
Broom Broom by Brecken Hancock
Match by Helen Guri
Probably Inevitable Matthew Tierney
 
From Mansfield Press
My Planet of Kites by Marie-Ève Comtois
moon baboon canoe by Gary Barwin
Sympathy Loophole by Jaime Forsythe
Yaw by Dani Couture
Goodbye, Ukulele by Leigh Nash
 
From Wave Books
Take It by Joshua Beckman
Sunny Wednesday by Noelle Kocot
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis
1 Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Selected Poems by Dara Wier
Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen