The top three winners of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award in the ninth annual Illinois Emerging Writers Competition were just announced by Jesse White, secretary of state and state librarian.
- Jonathan G. Travelstead of Murphysboro took first place with his poem “DuPont Paint Factory”
- Pablo Otavalo of Chicago, second.
- Richard Holinger of Geneva, third.
The competition is co-sponsored by Illinois Center for the Book and Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein, who selected the final winners. Read the poems soon at the ICB website.
This article appears in Nov 14-20, 2013.
