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Doubtful Harbor
The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
GENERAL EDITOR: DAVID SANDERS
Named after the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, this competition invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems. The competition is open to poets who have not published a book-length collection as well as to those who have.
Full and updated information is available on the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize web page: ohioswallow.com/poetry_prize
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Allison Eir Jenks, The Palace of Bones
Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X
Dan Lechay, The Quarry
Joshua Mehigan, The Optimist
Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
Roger Sedarat, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic
Jason Gray, Photographing Eden
Will Wells, Unsettled Accounts
Stephen Kampa, Cracks in the Invisible
Nick Norwood, Gravel and Hawk
Charles Hood, South × South: Poems from Antarctica
Alison Powell, On the Desire to Levitate
Shane Seely, The Surface of the Lit World
Michelle Y. Burke, Animal Purpose
Michael Shewmaker, Penumbra
Idris Anderson, Doubtful Harbor
Doubtful Harbor
Poems
Idris Anderson
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2018 by Idris Anderson
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Cover photo: Doubtful Sound, New Zealand (courtesy of author)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Anderson, Idris, author.
Title: Doubtful harbor : poems / Idris Anderson.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018] | Series: The Hollis Summers poetry prize
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058085| ISBN 9780821423172 (paperback) | ISBN 9780821446317 (pdf)
Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / General.
Classification: LCC PS3601.N5438 A6 2018 | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058085
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