We are so excited to announce that Marilyn Chin has selected OPIUM AND AMBERGRIS by Colin Dekeersgieter as the winner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Colin will receive $2500 and a one-week fellowship to lead a creative writing workshop at Kent State University in the fall of 2024. He will also give a reading with prize judge Marylin Chin.  Colin Dekeersgieter is a poet, editor, and teacher living in North Carolina with his wife, writer Alisa Koyrakh. His work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. He holds ...