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Robin Myers

Robin Myers lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. This past year she was the first-place winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest at Hollins University. “A Birth” is her first published work.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Autumn 2004

A Birth

By Robin Myers

First-Place Winner2004 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers We ran to the barn in the dark, bearing flashlights, beams skimming over mud. Alert with cold and the smells of […]

Past Recipients of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

A Birth

By Robin Myers

2004 First Prize We ran to the barn in the dark, bearing flashlights, beams skimming over mud. Alert with cold and the smells of dirt and grain and peat, we […]