2017 C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize Winner and Finalists

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Congratulations to our 2017 C.P. Cavafy winner, Darrel Alejandro Holnes!

His poem, “Praise Song for My Mutilated World,” was chosen for the $1,000 prize by the editorial staff of Poetry International.

We would also like to thank the finalists: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach for “For War and Water” and Lauren Alleyne for “Honeyfish.” Look out for their poems in the next issue of PI!