The CSU Poetry Center is delighted to announce that our 2020 Lighthouse Poetry Series judge, Randall Mann, has chosen Tobias Wray’s No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man for publication in our fall 2021 catalog. Thank you to everyone who sent us work this year—it was an honor to spend time with your poetry and we’re grateful for your writing, readership, and support of small press publishing.
An editor, literary event planner, and critic, Tobias Wray’s work can be found in Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Meridian, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. His poems also appear in The Queer Nature Anthology (Autumn House Press) and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures (Seagull Books). He directs the graduate and undergraduate Creative Writing Programs at the University of Idaho.
Judge’s honorable mention
Nathaniel Rosenthalis’ I Won't Begin Again
Finalists
Karen An-hwei Lee’s On the Beautiful Immunity; Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak; Danielle Blau’s peep; Jack Christian’s In Plain Air; Stella Corso’s Rat Year; Patrick Durgin’s Case Comparison; Joshua Edwards’s Lamps and Paths; Binswanger Friedman’s The Four Color Problem; Athena Kildegaard’s The Magritte Poems; James Meetze’s COSMOGRAPHEME; Colleen O'Brien’s Reel; Abraham Smith’s Insomniac Sentinel; Alicia Wright’s You're Called By The Same Sound; Felicia Zamora’s I Always Carry My Bones
Semi-finalists
Rachel Abramowitz’s The Birthday of the Dead; Toby Altman’s Discipline Park; s.c. bostwick’s places we might find her body; Elizabeth Breese’s Landscape with peephole; Mike Carlson’s Connoisseurship for Aficionados; Kate Colby’s Reverse Engineer; Michael Flatt’s Parallaxis; Melissa Ginsburg’s Doll Apollo; Christine Gosnay’s The Starlight Lounge; Isaiah Hines’s Null Space; Zefyr Lisowski’s Girl Work; Karyna McGlynn’s 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse; David Meeker’s Revolving Doors in the Age of Vanishment; Orlando Menes’s The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds; Addie Palin’s The Cautery; James Shea’s Failed Self-Portrait; Anthony Sutton’s Zombie Apocrypha: A Reassembly; Terese Svoboda’s Ark; Franke Varca’s Chill & Stupor; Lisa Wells’s Prisoner’s Cinema
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Fall 2021 catalog
Tobias Wray’s No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man will be released in fall 2021 alongside Valerie Hsiung’s outside voices, please (selected by Nicholas Gulig, Dora Malech, & Sheila McMullin for our 2019 Open Competition); Julie Marie Wade & Brenda Miller’s Telephone: Essays In Two Voices (selected by Hanif Abdurraqib for our 2019 Essay Competition); and an expanded 10th anniversary edition of Shane McCrae’s Mule including new poems, and an introduction by Victoria Chang.
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