Congratulations to former MFA poetry student RYAN WALSH, the winner of the Midwest Writing Center's 2010 Mississipi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest! Judge Jennifer Perrine described Ryan's manuscript, The Sink, as a "prayer for transformation, for recognition that even humans, those strange creatures of 'marbled meat / and water' are part of the land: we are river, crops, 'lithe, bright grasses.'"