We'd like to congratulate 3 former Drunken Boat contributors, JoAnna Novak, Paul Lobo Portugés, and Lucy Anderton for being semi-finalists in the 2011 Snowbound Series Poetry Chapbook Award. Want to check out their skills?

The German sky did not care that we were gone—nor, I expect, did the friends, nor the cherry trees. I left with new red welts down my back. Mother said: this hurts me more than you. Where did she hear that? I thought she was an unmarked child. I recall those days smelled thin. There were hedgehogs everywhere drinking