The Rainbow Awards: Poetry Non Fiction Popularity Contest Winner
The winner of the popularity contest for Poetry Non Fiction (and the book goes directly to Phase 3) is:
The Underwater Hospital by Jan Steckel
Publisher: Zeitgeist Press
Link: http://www.jansteckel.com/Books.html
This poetry chapbook is from Pushcart-nominated writer Jan Steckel, who is a bisexual activist and a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and cared for Spanish-speaking families in CA at a county hospital and at a large HMO. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, So to Speak, Margin and Lodestar Quarterly.
Honorable Mention (in popularity order to):
Best Gay Poetry 2008 by Lawrence Schimel, Lethe Press
The First Risk by Charles Jensen, Lethe Press
KONG and Other Works by Pamela Sneed
The Underwater Hospital by Jan Steckel
Publisher: Zeitgeist Press
Link: http://www.jansteckel.com/Books.html
This poetry chapbook is from Pushcart-nominated writer Jan Steckel, who is a bisexual activist and a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and cared for Spanish-speaking families in CA at a county hospital and at a large HMO. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, So to Speak, Margin and Lodestar Quarterly.
Honorable Mention (in popularity order to):
Best Gay Poetry 2008 by Lawrence Schimel, Lethe Press
The First Risk by Charles Jensen, Lethe Press
KONG and Other Works by Pamela Sneed