Lizzy Acker Monster Poetry Award Winner is: Jeannine Hall Gailey!!!
This week, our esteemed judge, Lizzy Acker, chose the following poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey as the winner of the first-annual Lizzy Acker Monster Poetry award!!!
They Are Not Regenerating
We are not zombies, thrown into a pool
of dubious origin and coming back beautiful
but decaying
unsure of how to live – pretending to swim,
eat yogurt like regular girls.
We are not clones, despite being drawn to specifications
(36-26-36) and bearing bouffants and bikinis
we might hack each other to pieces
but we are not confused about our identities
(living or not living) we continue
in this shape we were given
our cells cannot regenerate and the scientist
names us “Dead”
we are not regenerating we cannot reproduce ourselves we cannot be anything
but the fulfillment of your fantasy, flesh-eating or not.
*Congrats Jeannine Hall Gailey! Jeannine won herself a copy of every Small Desk Press book from here to eternity, as well as a chance to read during Litcrawl SF at Adobe Books on Oct 9th alongside the great Dustin Heron, Sarah Fran Wisby, Ali Lawrence and Lizzy Acker
*Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006.) Poems from the book were featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in 2007′s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She volunteers at Crab Creek Review. Her second book, She Returns to the Floating World, will be published in 2011 by Kitsune Books.
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Yay for monster poetry and beautifully talented poets like Jeannine!