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Announcing our Nominees for the Pushcart Prize

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Announcing the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry
​Winner, Runners-Up, and Finalists 

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Jo Stewart, winner of the 2020 Sublingua Prize For Poetry judged by Khadijah Queen, has previously been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (2020), Azule (2019), the Old American Can Factory (2019), the Anderson Center at Tower View (2018), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2018), MAAS (2017), and Arts Letters and Numbers (2016).

She was a recent member of Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, rehearsing and touring Cellular Songs from 2017-2019.

Stewart is currently a cross-disciplinary MFA candidate in the Literary Arts program at Brown University.

Her winning poem, along with other finalists, will appear in Inverted Syntax’s Issue 3 | Nov 2020.

Check in every Monday for more on the 2020 Sublingua winner, runners-up, and finalists.

RUNNERS -UP AND FINALISTS

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The amazing Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics has selected the winner, runners up, and finalists of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize‼️

Dr. Queen chose these poems through a blind reading, and we are so excited to announce the runners up and finalists! 

RUNNERS-UP
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  1. “Forbidden City” and “Flight: Beijing to LAX” by Benjamin Stallings
  2. "By these things we live” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph
  3. "Teach the girls to control their thirst” by Kiley McLaughlin  @kileymc

FINALISTS:
  1. “Catalog of algorithmic errors” by Maya Salameh 
  2. “Dear Vector, Where are you now” by Marietta Brill 
  3. “Self-Portrait As Tiona,” by Itiola Jones 
  4. “Temple Variation in 4th Harmonic” by Arnaav Bhavanani 
  5. “Fog” by Emily Marie Passos Duffy 
  6. “When the Doctor Doesn't Believe Your Pain: A Meditation” by Meg E. Griffitts 

Each week we will feature one of the  runners-up or finalists from the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry .

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This week we’re thrilled to introduce to you Arnaav Bhavanani!

Arnaav’s poem, “Temple Variation in 4th Harmonic" is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the literary luminary Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics .

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, and finalists in our Nov 2020 issue NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER !

About Arnaav “I’m a recent international undergraduate from Wesleyan University, where I studied European letters and various forms of writing. While rooted in India, I’m currently weathering Florida with cranes and iguanas. I won the Wesleyan Fiction Prize in 2019 and 2020, wrote a surrealist novel for my thesis, have been tinkering with poetry since the seventh grade. I act in plays and write different ones, spend half my days reading, gardening, and working remotely as a web content strategist for a consulting company in Oregon. Being hard-of-hearing, I’ve found voice in articulating garble and misfire."

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This week we’re delighted to introduce to you Emily Marie Passos Duffy @duffylala

Emily’s poem, “Fog” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics .

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, finalists and so much more in our Nov 2020 issue
✨NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER !✨

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Emily Marie Passos Duffy is a Colorado-based poet, teacher, and performing artist. Her written work has been published in Boulder Weekly, Portland Review, Cigar City Poetry Journal, Spit Poet Zine, and Iron Horse Literary Review. She is a contributing member of The Daily Camera's Editorial Advisory Board and a 2020 artist-in-residence at Boulder Creative Collective. A 2020 finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award and a finalist of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry, she was also named a 2020 Disquiet International Luso-American fellow. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in 2018.

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This week we’re delighted to introduce to you Marietta Brill @marbrill.

Marietta’s poem,
“Dear Vector, Where are you now” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen @radicalpoetics .

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winner, runners-up, and finalists in our Nov 2020 issue.

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Marietta Brill is a poet, science writer, and essayist, with poems appearing or upcoming in The Dialogist, Thrush Poetry Journal, About Place Journal, and others. Her poem “Crossing Manhattan Bridge on the Q” won the Brooklyn Poets Walt Whitman Bicentennial Poetry Contest, and appeared in its anthology of winning poems. In 2019, she received nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. She and her husband live in the Catskill Mountains.

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This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Itiola Jones! @isjonespoetry

Itiola‘s poem “Self-Portrait as Tiona” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics

The poem was also voted by seven of Inverted Syntax’s editors to be Issue 3’s opening anchor poem.

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I.S. Jones is a queer American / Nigerian poet and music journalist. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, The Offing, Shade Literary Arts, and elsewhere. Her work was chosen by the 2020 Madison, WI Poet Laureate as the winner of the Bus Lines Poetry Contest.

Itiola is an MFA candidate in Poetry at UW-Madison as well as the Inaugural 2019-2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship recipient.

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This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Maya Salameh! @mayaslme

Maya‘s poem “CATALOGUE OF ALGORITHMIC ERRORS or PAUL WALKS INTO THE KEYBOARD” is a finalist in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3, Nov 2020.

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Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a 2016 National Student Poet, America's highest honor for youth poets. Syrian by way of San Diego, she has performed her writing at venues including the Obama White House, Carnegie Hall, and her parents' kitchen. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, and Burningword Literary Journal, among others. Maya is the author of the chapbook, rooh (Paper Nautilus Press 2020).


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​This week, we’re thrilled to introduce to you Benjamin Stallings!

Benjamin is our only poet to have more than one poem selected as runner-up in the Sublingua prize.

Benjamin’s poems “Forbidden City” and “Flight: Beijing to LAX” are both Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3 , Nov 2020.

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Benjamin Stallings @benstallings is an American poet and musician who grew up in Beijing, China. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he will attend UNLV's MFA in Creative Writing Program in the fall. His work has appeared in Tulane Review, Whale Road Review, among others, and he was a finalist for Atlanta Review's 2019 Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets.

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​This week, we’re proud to introduce to you Stephanie Niu! 
@niusteph

Stephanie’s poem, “By These Things We Live,” is one of three Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen 💫 @radicalpoetics

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming Issue 3 , Nov 2020.

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Stephanie Niu grew up in Georgia and earned her degrees in symbolic systems and computer science from Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in The Southeast Review, Portland Review, Immigrant Report, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2021 Fulbright Award and currently lives in northern California.

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This week we’re proud to introduce to you Kiley McLaughlin.

Kiley’s poem, “I AM YOU AND YOU ARE MINE, or TEACH THE GIRLS TO CONTROL THEIR THIRST” is one of three Runners-Up in the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry selected by the award-winning poet Khadijah Queen.

You’ll find the Sublingua prize winners in our upcoming
Issue 3 | Nov 2020

Kiley McLaughlin lives in San Francisco, CA. She is the author of two chapbooks, BODIES FOUND (Patient Presses 2015, 17 pages) and Dirty Party Poems (horse less press 2015, 21 pages), and poems of hers can be found in CutBank, DIAGRAM, and Heavy Feather Review.

She holds degrees from Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz.

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Kiki Petrosino | J Michael Martinez | Megan Kaminski | Martin McGovern | Raymond Luczak 
Leonora Simonovis | Megan Spiegel | Salma Ahmad Caller | Joni Renee Whitworth 
Jonathan Riccio | 
 Jessica Reed | Violet Mitchell | Emmy Newman | Richard Westley | Ted Snyder
Christy Sheffield Sanford | Bryan Price | Terri Witek | ​Wren Tuatha | Christina Haglid | Alysse McCanna 
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Carol Radsprecher | 
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Includes the Sublingua Prize for Poetry Winner, the Runners-up, and the Finalists (Selected by Dorothea Lasky) 

​Gabriella Vogt | Jessica Fischoff | Adam Malinowski | Elizabeth Galoozis | Shaun Holloway |
James Davis | Craig Chen | Susan Friberg | Emily Davis-Fletcher| Angelo Maneage


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