Poetry Contest Rejection

I, sadly, was not the winner of the The Madison Review's Phyllis Smart-Young Prize.  Michael Derrick Hudson was for his poems, "Dreaming About Jozefa After Too Much Eggnog," "Why I Mostly Had Trouble With Girls in High School," "Drunk in Bed With a Book About Great Masterpieces of Western Art."  Those are not poems I could have written, so congratulations to him.

My comparable poems would have been titled, "Drunk Texting Patrick When I Should Have Just Gone to Sleep After Too Much Maker's," "Why I Mostly Asked Boys Who'd Already Graduated to High School Dances," and "Drinking the Cooking Brandy While Trying to Finish The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Once and For All."