Poems and Prizes
Noctua Review, 2012
Southern Connecticut State University Poetry Contest winner Don’t look back, Don’t mourn your past, days of pomegranate juice, tart promise on your tongue. Run. Forget your garden, neighbors, friends. Get out while you can. Map the route. Bring woolens for mountain weather. Hold photos close to hand. My linen skirt grows limp, dispirited, snags on brambles, tendrils shred to stubbornness, a winding sheet. Hair heavies, limbs refuse to sprint. What about my irises, their purple lips arrayed against orange poppies? My last thought as I turn, engulfed by curtains of regret— how glorious to savor salt on melon. |
"Stirred, Not Shaken," Five Oaks Press, 2016
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Christine Beck, a former lawyer and professor of legal studies, teaches creative writing at the University of Hartford and at private workshops. Her collection, The Charlotte Chronicles, won the mini-chapbook contest at The Centrifugal Eye and was published in 2012. A former president and current officer of the Connecticut Poetry Society, Beck directs its monthly series of poetry lectures called Poets on Poetry at local libraries. Named Poet Laureate of West Hartford, CT from 2015-17, Beck currently lives in Avon, CT.