Upcoming Announcement

The winner of the unFold 1000 Tweets Contest will be announced this week. Stay tuned!

Congratulations to our Finalists

Huge congratulations to the ten finalists in our 1000 Tweets Contest, listed below in the order in which their poems appeared on the unFold blog:

Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, “Bridge”
Dorothee Lang, untitled
Peg Duthie, untitled
Bud Smith, “Pale Blue Eyes”
Debbie Feller, “Essentially Bare”
Howie Good, “Night in the Country”
Julie Corbett, untitled
Elizabeth Lara, “The Amazing Box of Used-To-Be”
Ivo Drury, “Decades”
DannyPoet, “Where her father died”

We hope you have enjoyed reading these poems on our blog. This week, the winning poem selected by Matthew Lippman will be announded and posted on the unFold Twitter stream. Stay tuned!

When her father died

She moved the rocks in our garden
shuttling back and forth
letting the hauled stones
pull her hands
to the ground

© 2013, DannyPoet

Also visit DannyPoet at http://www.DannyPoet.com

Decades

Sixties next
Father’s last
Still hoping
to shake
his shadow.

© 2013, Ivo Drury

Ivo Drury workshops words in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Amazing Box of Used-to-Be

Thick-soled hiking boots
Bikini from Bahamas
Madame Bovary, half read
Bali Lace Desire
underwire

© 2013, Elizabeth Lara

Elizabeth Lara is a member of the Hot Poets Collective in New York — also visit her poems in Dark Matter and damselfly press.