Chris Dahl's chapbook, Mrs. Dahl in the Season of Cub Scouts, won Still Waters Press “Women’s Words” competition. Extensively published, Chris also serves on the Olympia Poetry Network board and edits their newsletter.
2024 Louis Award Winner
Judge Emily Ransdell selected as winner of the 2024 Concrete Wolf Louis Award
Not Now But Soon
by Chris Dahl.
Ransdell says: “These are quietly intelligent poems that face the losses of aging with grace. Some are melancholy, some downright sad, but always grounded in an authenticity that feels like wisdom to me. I believe this voice, so at home in her garden, so attuned to the seasons and the coming of fall. The metaphors feel natural, yet surprising, as a good metaphor must be.”
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
Finalists
George Such
Jen Karetnick
Miriam Weinstein
Laurie Kuntz
Becoming Like the Egret
Domiciliary
Here, Beyond, Between
Shelter in Place
Honorable Mentions
Jay Brecker
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
Jed Myers
Craig Thompson
Barbara Brooks
Mike Wilson
Linda Scheller
Gunilla Kester
Catherine Arra
Stephanie Harper
James Penha
Linda Bamber
Tim Gillespie
Tim Barnes
Bruce Lowry
Paul Buchheit
Carol Alena Aronoff
Stephanie Pressman
Charlotte Porter
Donald Illich
Judith Skillman
Carla Schick
Joshua Coben
Frank William Finney
Lewis Leicher
of Our Lives
blue collar eclogue
The Book She Remembers
Cézanne’s Apples
Difficult Customers
Finding My Way
First Responder
The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street
Hold Me Still
The Hollows
Instar
Jekyll’s Lover
Look Twice
Nocturnal Maturation Symphony
The Palaver of Place
Secrets of the Land
Senescence Sonnets
Solitary Solitude Sanctuary
Speak for Those Rendered Silent
Stickwood
Surrender, Surrender
Two of Every
Words Like Stones
The World Above You
Wormwood Punch
Young and Old
