posted by: Kevin McFadden

Congratulations to Anne Harding Woodworth of Washington, DC, the winner of the Musical Mood poetry contest. Her poem “Taps” will be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by VABC artists. Images of previous broadside winners HERE.

Contest poems were to engage the theme of music. Honorable mentions go to poets Mary Pinard (Roslindale, MA) for “Wanting an Accordion,” Mike Schneider (Pittsburgh, PA) for “Crazy Blues,” and Kathleen Winter (Glen Ellen, CA) for “Mia Vita Violenta.”

The Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is a community of artists exploring books, paper, and printmaking. Selections for its annual contest on a rotating theme are judged for high literary quality and suitability for visual interpretation.

TAPS

I’m going to buy a bugle
and hold it to my mouth.

Lips is all it takes. And tongue.
It’s in the breath that has no lapse,

and all through warming brass
it gives the simplest tune.

Hidden, I will blow the bugle
into life, as if the sound comes

from another county, low to high,
then lowering itself.

I need a song,
something slightly out of keeping

and behind a lone and reaching
cypress, treble clef of evergreen.

 

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Anne Harding Woodworth’s fourth book of poetry is The Artemis Sonnets, Etc. (2011). She is also the author of two chapbooks. She is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library and divides her time between Washington, DC, and Cedar Mountain, NC.

 

Filed under: Announcements on January 13th, 2012