Editors' Note: We're pleased to present a poem by Jnanam MacIsaac, of Charlottesville, VA, the winner of the Green Poems contest. The poem, “Pesticidal” will be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by VABC artists. (See an image of the broadside for last year’s contest winner, Jennifer Perrine.) Poems were to engage the chosen theme—green—in any sense or context.
Honorable mentions in the contest go to poets Dan Stryk (Bristol, VA) for “Overgrowth” and Lesley Wheeler (Lexington, VA) for “Spring-Sick.”
The Virginia Arts of the Book Center promotes the values of the humanities through appreciation of the arts of the book, visual and verbal literacy, creativity, and the fostering of traditional and contemporary skills. Selections for its annual contest on a rotating theme are made for high literary quality and suitability for visual interpretation. Information on next year’s contest will appear next spring on the virginiabookarts.org website.
pesticidal
I hunger
for birdsong
and the imperfect pear
JNANAM MACISAAC
About the Poet
Green Poems Contest
Virginia Arts of the Book Center
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Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
