Jacqueline Bell
October 08th, 2025
Jacqueline Bell has won the 2025 Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest for her deeply-felt collection, Summoning (Raven Chapbooks $22.95), described by judges John Barton and Arlene Pare as “elegiac, yes, familial, inconsolable.” There’s death of family, a lost lover and sadness about nature. There’s also an elegy to lost childhood that reflects on the memory of two sunburnt children on a beach and “that huge / mint-green anemone / remember / how its tentacles cleaved to / your finger / then / one by / one they / let / go.” 9781778160387
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