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Special Guest Contributor 2008

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STEVE LAUTERMILCH

Photo by Mary Ellen Riddle

A poet and fine art photographer, Steve lives on the Outer Banks where he offers workshops in dream study, meditation, and writing. For seven years he has traveled in the far west, exploring the sites and images of the first peoples of the American continent. Solo exhibits have been held at the Glenn Eure Gallery in Nags Head, the Festival Park Gallery on Roanoke Island in Manteo, the Duke University Medical Clinic in Durham, and the Getchell Library Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Steve is the author of ten chapbooks, most recently Mirror Light from Pudding House Publications (2005). His chapbooks have won competitions held by the Aldrich Museum, Bright Hill Press, Persephone Press, and Ruah magazine. His poems have received major awards from The Centennial Review, Kakalak, Nimrod International Journal, River Oak Review, and Sotheby’s International Poetry Competition.

Individual photographs have appeared as covers and in portfolio in Carolina Quarterly, The Connecticut Review, Outer Banks Magazine, and Pace Magazine. His verse translations of and essays on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke have appeared in Arion, The Literary Review, The Southern Review, and Western Humanities Review.

With David Freed he is co-author of What Light Guides This Hand: Poems from Izumi Shikibu, an artist's book of poems and fine art prints. His own artist’s book of poems and photographs, Spirit Writer (2002), is available from Hour Press.

Kakalak 2008 Poetry Judge

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COLETTE INEZ

Colette Inez

Colette Inez is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore (Melville House Books) and Clemency (Carnegie Mellon Press). In 2005, the University of Wisconsin Press brought out her memoir The Secret of M. Dulong praised by A.M. Homes as "a transcendent celebration of wit and intellect."

Among her many honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and awards from the NEA and the Poetry Society of America, on whose governing board she serves.

Inez lives on the Upper West Side of New York City and has been teaching poetry workshops at Columbia since 1983. She has held visiting positions all over the country.

Her work has appeared in Iowa Review, Paris Review and many anthologies.

Contest

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Now Available!

KAKALAK 2008
Anthology of Carolina Poets!

Dear Poets and Visual Artists:
Thanks to everyone who submitted work for 2008!

Editors: Beth Cagle Burt, Lisa Zerkle, and Richard Allen Taylor

Guest Poetry Judge: Colette Inez, prolific award winning New York poet

Special Guest Contributor: Steve Lautermilch, winner of both Poetry and Art Contests for Kakalak 2007

The Postmark Deadline was January 10, 2008

The Available Prizes Consist of:
Poetry: 1st $300, 2nd $100, 3rd $50
Visual Art: 1st $100, 2nd $75, 3rd $50

The Kakalak 2008 Anthology contestants include residents and natives of North and South Carolina.

Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets held the 2008 Poetry Contest and Art Competition from October 1, 2007 through the postmark date of January 10, 2008. All contest participants will be notified of their publication status by March 3, 2008.

Kakalak Anthology welcomed natives and current residents of both North and South Carolina to participate in the contest. Non-natives and previous residents were also welcome to participate by submitting work specifically related to the Carolinas, and this poetry and/or visual art may be accepted at the Editors' discretion.

The 2008 Contests drew 900-plus pieces of poetry and over 130 visual art pieces. We anticipate the Kakalak 2008 Contest resulting in the third splendid Carolina-wide anthology, preceded by Kakalak 2006 and 2007.

The 2008 Contest is a great success with poetry submissions alone of 900-plus. Also grand success, the 2006 and 2007 Contests brought in poetry submissions over 1100 in 2006 and 800-plus in 2007. The end products are two fabulous collections of poetry and visual art with highly well-written and well-crafted pieces from over 100 poets and artists each year. We are currently producing another fantastic, winner anthology.

Kakalak 2008 Anthologies of Carolina Poets should be available for sale by summer. Please return to this website, especially the Purchases page, regularly to keep track of publication and pre-ordering status.