Book Spine Poetry Contest: Our Finalists

We're pleased to announce the five finalists of our Book Spine Poetry Contest. Congratulations to the poets who made it through the first elimination round.

The Finalists

LoveMyFace:

What if 

the future is not what it used to be?

Who will provide 

art as therapy?

Everyday Mysteries

Looking Out

Looking In

The ethics of identity

The agony and the ecstasy

The best American poetry

Daniel:

School Girls

Girlhood

The world’s youth

If you could be anything, what would it be?

What Matters.

Rida:

Dear life

I’m not crazy I’m just not you

Yesterday, I cried

The future is not what it used to be

Impossible

Ridha:

Ways of dying

Things fall apart

U-turn

Switch

Weep not, child
The beautiful ones
are not
yet
born

Tahani:

Something in the way she moves

I don’t know what to say -

Help

Yesterday, I cried

She’s gone.

Remember that the finalists are determined by the votes of our patrons. Votes can be registered on a white board by our circulation desk or via the comment sections on this blog.