Finalist, William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry
Henry Sturm
Writer
For my poem up/down, I was selected as a Finalist in the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry, a contest conducted by the Raw Art Review (RAR).
Three poems—up/down, Love & Water, and Grandad—were published in the Winter/Spring 2021 Issue of RAR.
but when summer rolled up
our shoulders and pores lightened and gasped
and sweat under shirts made of cotton began
as we hopped over ponds
bred star jasmine to bloom
out of sternum and ribcage and lungs