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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.

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The luminous 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:
“Forbidden City” and “Flight: Beijing to LAX” by Benjamin Stallings
"By these things we live” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph
"Teach the girls to control their thirst” by Kiley McLaughlin  @kileymc

FINALISTS:

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

Check out our spotlight on runners-up and finalists from the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry .

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