CHAPBOOK COMPETITION, SPRING 2016
The Cape Cod Poetry Review hosted a Chapbook Competition in Spring of 2016:
1st Runner Up: Stitches by Angela Howes
2nd Runner Up: Glasshouse by Ed Granger
3rd Runner Up: Let This One Be by Gerald Yelle
Winner: In Memory of Fire by Stephan Delbos
“In Memory of Fire presents a speaker on the verge of disaster. In Delbos’ poems, themes of destruction, loss, and the city intertwine in a complex play of language. Desolation and grief are handled with subtlety and sophistication. While music and biblical imagery present fresh, surprising motifs throughout this work, Delbos’ language maintains precision in a tightly woven arc of humanity against the wild, elemental lack of predictability inherent in relationships and circumstance. In Memory of Fire is a worldly and timeless work, and Delbos’ voice is a fresh and welcome one.” --The Cape Cod Poetry Review
1st Runner Up: Stitches by Angela Howes
2nd Runner Up: Glasshouse by Ed Granger
3rd Runner Up: Let This One Be by Gerald Yelle
Winner: In Memory of Fire by Stephan Delbos
“In Memory of Fire presents a speaker on the verge of disaster. In Delbos’ poems, themes of destruction, loss, and the city intertwine in a complex play of language. Desolation and grief are handled with subtlety and sophistication. While music and biblical imagery present fresh, surprising motifs throughout this work, Delbos’ language maintains precision in a tightly woven arc of humanity against the wild, elemental lack of predictability inherent in relationships and circumstance. In Memory of Fire is a worldly and timeless work, and Delbos’ voice is a fresh and welcome one.” --The Cape Cod Poetry Review
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STEPHAN DELBOS is a New England-born writer who divides his time between Plymouth and Prague, where he teaches at Anglo-American University and Charles University. His poetry, essays and translations have appeared most recently in Absinthe, Agni, Atlanta Review, BlazeVOX, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Financial Times, Full Metal Poem, Grasp, New Letters, Oxonian Review, Poetry International, Poetry Salzburg Review, Rakish Angel, Return of Kral Majales, and Zoland Poetry. He is the editor of From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology (Litteraria Pragensia, 2011). His first full-length play, "Chetty's Lullaby," about the life of trumpet legend Chet Baker, has been produced in New York and San Francisco. He was a 2015 recipient of the PEN/Heim Grant for his co-translation of The Absolute Gravedigger by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval, which is scheduled for publication by Twisted Spoon Press in 2016. He is a founding editor of B O D Y.
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