"These poems show that the pastoral is still a living and vibrant mode of poetry."
—Brian Spears, judge of the 2018  James T. Whitehead Award

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[Background Image Description: A close-up photograph of a parade float featuring large cylinders shaped like pencils that are covered with orange and yellow dahlias, with cream-colored dahlias coating the sharpened tips of the pencils and black paper forming the graphite.The text in front of the image reads "Gwendolyn Ann Hill: Poet | Environmental Writer | Educator"] Photo taken by the author.