Third-prize winner Richard Merelman, attempts to capture the personal side of political struggle with his poem, “The Hostage to His Beheader.” Drawing a record number of 424 participants this year, the Wisconsin Academy Review Poetry Contest has named its three winners.
First-prize winner Slocum will walk away with $500 and a recording session at Abella Studios. Milwaukee poet Kathleen Dale, who placed second, will receive $100 and a $100 gift certificate from McKay Nursery. The third prize of $50 was taken by Merelman, who was a political science professor at UW-Madison for 30 years.