WEALTH OF IDEAS

The winner of the 2010 Sacramento Poetry Center Manuscript Contest is Melissa Morphew for her manuscript Bluster, which our final judge Indigo Moor has just selected as the winner. Here's some of what Indigo had to say: "My choice is Bluster because of lines such as: ; he cups a drunken bee in his hand, puts it to her ear— loovvvvvvvvvve— uncups the bee, palm unstung; love, love, the word throbs her wrist, a razor cut, but this is retrospect and If there is a flower breaking from the wall, breaking, the stone cleaved, the petals cleaved from the marble, surprised by such blooming, such fecundity in the midst of barren rock “Bluster often startled me. The line breaks and form choices were exacting and somehow puckish. Consistently, I was kept off guard by the prospect of what I would find." Melissa Morphew is a graduate of the University of Georgia's PhD program in English. Morphew is the recipient of several national and international poetry prizes, including: The Ac