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The Gift Of An Hour was an optional prompt for 2022 submissions.
Below are audio files of our 2022 The Polk Street Review book launch. Corresponding videos are on our 2022 The Polk Street Review book launch playlist on our YouTube channel.
2022 The Polk Street Review Awards
Award of Merit (Best in Book):
The Award of Merit this year goes to George W. Wolfe for his poem, Verses Re-Versus no. 13. The poem is a palindrome, in which the second stanza is the first stanza with the words written in reverse order. It is a difficult form, and George’s poem is an excellent example. We also love that within this challenging form, George manages to include elements of spirituality, the cosmos, climate change, and an elk!
Artwork Images Category:
First Place: A Gift of Parental Love by Kristine Staley
Second Place: Winter on the Mountains by Jerry Dreesen
Third Place: Anima’s Dream by Kristine Staley
Prose Category:
First Place: The Fateful Hour by Patrick Kalahar
Second Place: For Holly Middleton by Kitty O’Doherty
Third Place: Retirement by George W. Wolfe
Honorable Mention: Oak Strength by Gail Mehlan
Honorable Mention: An Hour Drive with My Brother by Leah Leach
Poetry/Lyric Category:
First Place: untitled 2 by B. Monét
Second Place: Stay-at-Home Sheep by Jenny Kalahar
Third Place: untitled 2 by Z. Rose
Honorable Mention: An Extra Hour by David Allen
Honorable Mention: This Hour by Deborah Petersen
Special Award(s):
Special Awards are given when we feel one or more of our published creatives has submitted something that takes us out of a normal category award. Special Awards are hard to define, but they may be given as acknowledgement for either one particular piece or all pieces submitted by one person taken as a whole. The two Special Awards this year go to two people for very different reasons:
The Gift of an Hour with Grandkids, A Collection of Senryũ and Haiku by Mike Nierste. Mike gave us a mini-collection of ten poems, capturing both the joys and everyday reality of a particular time in one’s life, time with grandchildren. The ten poems are each beautifully written in senryũ and haiku forms, and while each poem can stand alone, we feel that they deserve special recognition as a collection.
Ndaba Sibanda is an international writer, bringing new political and social perspectives to CEArts and The Polk Street Review, by submitting new styles and variety of genres. Ndaba’s continued support for several years through multiple entries has broadened The Polk Street Review’s borders and been instrumental in creating our CEArts global community.
The Gift Of An Hour
About Gaston Bachelard:
Gaston Bachelard (27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher, contributing to the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. His areas of interest included historical epistemology, constructivist epistemology, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of art, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and education. Bachelard was also a Feminist philosopher. Going against sexist stereotypes of the time, he ensured his daughter Suzanne was well-educated; she became a mathematician and philosopher who developed well-respected phenomenological and epistemological research. Bachelard’s works include Le nouvel esprit scientifique (1934; The New Scientific Spirit), La formation de l’esprit scientifique (The Formation of the Scientific Mind, 1938), La psychanalyse du feu (1938; The Psychoanalysis of Fire, English language publication 1964), L’eau et les rêves (1942; Water and Dreams, English language publication 1983), and The Poetics of Space (1958). La poétique de la rêverie (1958; The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, 1969) was published for the first time in an English translation seven years after Bachelard’s death in 1962.
Author Gillian Darley says of Bachelard:
“In his Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard created a philosophy of at-homeness, rich in emotion and memory . . . he guides us through an actual or imagined home (your choice), its comforts and mysteries, assembled and brought into focus, in a place and at a time undefined except by the limits of our own daydreams, longings and memories – those inner landscapes from which, he said, new worlds can be made. The philosopher evokes an idealised past, places the miniature against the immense, and guides us back into childhood. Once there, at home, he reminds us how we tend to look down the cellar stairs, apprehensively, while gazing upwards, towards the attic, always eager. Uncertainty is set against promise, dark against light. This house is a key to an inner self, ‘for childhood is certainly greater than reality’.
from Intimate spaces
by Gillian Darley, 17 October 2017
https://aeon.co/essays/how-gaston-bachelard-gave-the-emotions-of-home-a-philosophy
Annual Information for Submitting and Supporting The Polk Street Review project
General information about our annual The Polk Street Review project, and how YOU can submit your original artwork images, prose (includes favorite family Recipes!), and poetry/song lyrics can always be found here: https://cearts.org/home/the-polk-street-review
ANNUAL Deadline is 31 December for submissions of poetry, song lyrics, prose, recipes, and artwork images, Sponsors, and in-book Advertising Space buys.
Pre-Orders of the book, Sponsors, and in-book Advertising Space help us with publication & print costs.
In-Book Advertising Space:
The Polk Street Review (TPSR) is a unique creative place-making anthology celebrating Noblesville, IN. We hope you will choose to advertise YOUR BUSINESS in The Polk Street Review. The Polk Street Review is published as a 6×9 full-color paperback with standard page margins. Hi-res logos and ads work best, in PNG or JPG file formats.
If you create your own ad, please create a hi-res PNG or JPG image that either fits within 6×9 or is similarly shaped dimensionally (so that we can resize it to fit into the book’s layout). For all ad space options, please include any descriptive text you want printed under your image.
In-Book Advertising Price List:
1. one page color $100
2. one page b/w $75
3. half page color $50
4. half page b/w $45
5. business LOGO $30
In-Book Advertising Square Market link:
https://squareup.com/store/CEArts/item/advertising-in-tpsr (then select one of five pull-down options)
Please add any additional information in Note area.
DEADLINE December 31. After payment, you can email any hi-res PNG or JPG image (storefront; business logo; created ad) to info@cearts.org Please let us know if, along with your advertising selection, you would like to stock some books for sale in your place of business. We can also use your logo/business information in print publications, on our website and social media, and we recognize our advertisers in our podcast and short videos series.
As a thank you for supporting The Polk Street Review, we’ll reserve a copy of the book for you; it will be available at and after the February book launch.
Thank you for your time and consideration, and for all you do to make Noblesville a wonderful place to shop, work, and live!
We welcome individual sponsors as well!
Individual Patron Sponsors Square Market link:
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(then select your donation option)
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2. $20
3. $30
4. $50
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6. $100 If sending form and check, please provide name(s) as you wish them to appear in the book.
More about The Polk Street Review:
Awards are given in three submission categories:
- Prose (includes recipes)
- Poetry/Song Lyrics
- Images (artwork, any medium)
We also award Special Awards and the highest honor, the Award of Merit (our Best In Book).
In any category, submissions inspired by travels, ancestry anecdotes, and connections to the global community are published in a special International Connections section of the book. Recipes can be submitted in the prose category (we encourage including recipe images).