Drum Roll Please... Steve Dickison: Winner of BOMB Poetry Contest!!!

Yes! The winner of this year's BOMB Poetry Contest is Steve Dickison! Steve Dickison lives in San Francisco, and works as Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, teaching there and at California College of the Arts. CA Conrad judged this year's contest. BOMB announced that David Vandeloo is runner-up: his poems will appear in this winter's issue of BOMB. Dickison's entry to this year's contest, four poems from Wear You to the Ball, will appear in the forthcoming fall issue. Way to go Steve Dickison, CA Conrad, David Vandeloo, and BOMB! From BOMB's press release:

Drum roll, please... We're very pleased to announce that Steven Dickison has been named the winner of the BOMB Poetry Contest. His entry, four poems from Wear You to the Ball, will appear in the forthcoming fall issue of BOMB Magazine.

Congratulations also to our runner-up David Vandeloo, whose poems will appear in this winter's issue of BOMB.

Very special thanks to our judge CAConrad and all our entrants.

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Steve Dickison lives in San Francisco, and works as Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, teaching there and at California College of the Arts. He co-edited the music magazine Shuffle Boil (2002–06, with David Meltzer), edited and published various works under the imprint Listening Chamber (with offshoots Rumor Books and Parrhesia Press), and is co-editor of the anthologies Prison/Culture (City Lights Foundation, 2009) and Homage to Etel Adnan (The Post-Apollo Press, 2012). Disposed, a book of poetry, was published by Post-Apollo in 2007. Recent writing is in print magazines Hambone, Aufgabe, Mandorla, Vanitas, Amerarcana, and Where Eagles Dare, and online at EOAGH, ONandOnScreen, Evening Will Come (The Volta) and poeticsoflistening.blogspot.com. Wear You to the Ball was first performed in collaboration with new music composer Bill Dietz, in London and Berlin. He organized the art exhibition Poetry and Its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954–2004 at the California Historical Society, in celebration of The Poetry Center’s 50th anniversary, and also the book exhibition Recent Visitors: Poets and Publishers on the Bolinas Scene in the Seventies, and will be writing in conjunction with a show this fall by Bay Area painters Norma Cole, Léonie Guyer, and Wayne Smith for Margaret Tedesco’s [2nd floor projects].

We look forward to the fall issue! In the meantime, start your day with BOMB.