Elk Lake, MI

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Elk Lake, MI” by Caroline New was awarded third place in the 2022 Love & Eros Prize, selected by Carl Phillips. We’re honored to share this beautiful poem.

“I admire the vast distances crossed here–from the lake with its threatened herd to the differently threatened rings around Saturn, from the immediacy of the speaker’s moment to Galileo’s time to the future 100 million years from now. Intimacy can be lonely in a world so vast. No wonder the speaker wants something small, tangible, and nameable: ‘To hold a face between my hands and call it golden.'” —Carl Phillips, guest judge

ELK LAKE, MI

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Caroline New

Caroline Harper New is a writer and visual artist from Bainbridge, Georgia. Rooted in the Gulf Coast, her poems trace the line between love and ruin, often straddling archaeology, folklore, & environmental issues. She received her BA in anthropology from Davidson College and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she is currently a post-MFA Zell Fellow and the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence. Her work can be found in American Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, PRISM International, Driftwood Press, Ruminate, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the Robert & Adele Schiff Award (Cincinnati Review, 2022), John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry (Bellevue Literary Review, 2022), Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, Second Runner-Up (San Diego Annual Review, 2022), Malahat Open Season Award (Malahat Review, 2023); as well as a finalist for the Adrift Chapbook Award (2022) and Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Persea Press, 2023). See more at www.carolineharpernew.com

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