The Spark

The 2016 Luminaire Award for Best Poetry
WINNERS & SHORTLISTED FINALISTS

We here at Alternating Current feel that it is highly important to reward our authors with every possible chance for recognition of their fine crafts. We are pleased to announce the winners and finalist shortlist for The 2016 Luminaire Award for Best Poetry, honoring the independent press’ best poems. The pieces are judged blindly by an external panel to determine the semifinalist longlist and then a finalist shortlist. The first place winner will be published in January, and the rest will follow, through December, with the winning poems being published once per month throughout the year on The Current. First through fifth places are also published in a triennial print and ebook award anthology.

FIRST PLACE
Sarah Ann Winn
“Baldwin Apples”


SECOND PLACE
Amy Wright
“Coralee Robbins Mafficks the Fall of Art”


THIRD PLACE
Mary Buchinger
“vii. (the leviathan)”


FOURTH PLACE
Michael Bernicchi
“we move as dust”


FIFTH PLACE
normal
“the thing is, you see”


NOTABLE MENTIONS
Chris Middleman
“PSU Harrisburg”

Kaye Spivey
“Herding Autumn”

Brendan Walsh
“Foot Sonnet”

Amy Wright
“Nobody plays in firehydrant fountains but Tegs Turpin”

Rinzu Rajan
“Mumbai, 11th March, 15.30”

Aaron Graham
“Hometown Hero”

Sarah Ann Winn
“I Consider Whether Shipping Your Memory Home Would Be Too Costly”

Thanks to these authors for sharing their incredible work with us and for trusting us to share it with the rest of the world. Congratulations on the results.

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