In the spring of 2022, The Orchard Street Press conducted its fifth annual Poetry Contest, an event that has grown with each passing year. The Press received entries from 37 states, almost 700 poems in all.
We were delighted with the participation in this year’s Poetry Contest; more than six hundred poems were submitted by entrants from forty different states, with the quality of the submissions bringing no easy task to the judges. We want to thank all those who sent in work and who are keeping the poetic energy and creativity at a very high level across the land.
We were delighted with the response to this year’s Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest. We received entries from all across the country, presenting an amazing array of styles, voices, themes,perspectives, and ‘make it new’ artistry. This year’s edition of Quiet Diamonds (due out in September) will be a remarkable collection indeed.
1st “The Natural Power of Memory,” Glen Mazis, Mariatta, PA
2nd “Quenched,” Mary Ann Honaker, Beaver, WV
3rd “All My Relations,” Gary Boelhower, Duluth, MN
1st “October Burial,” Lew Forester, Arvada, CO
2nd “Tsunami,” Ben Onachila, Pasgah Forest, NC
3rd “Intervals, Progressions,” Susan Waters, Hobbs, NM
The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of Energy and Stillness, the excellent new poetry collection by award-winning poet Bob Wickless of Reidsville, North Carolina.
We at The Orchard Street Press are very pleased to announce that Jack Kristofco, our publisher, has just come out with a new chapbook, After the Harvest, a collection of thirty-five poems most of which have appeared in various publications over the past fifteen years.
Jack’s work has won critical praise from his first published volume, A Box of Stones, over twenty years ago: “Kristofco impresses with his intelligence, his music, and his language,” John Berbich of Bone World Publishing observed, to Sunlight in the Stream, just two years ago, about which Peter C. Leverich wrote “Good poetry begins with observations, and John P. Kristofco is indeed a keen observer…he finds clues to life’s riddles, small and large, which he shares with the reader in this smart collection of wonderfully accessible and finely crafted poems.”
