
Dr. Ferleger was the winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize, Robert Fraser Poetry Prize, and the AROHO Creative Non Fiction Prize, among others, and is the author of three full-length volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, As the Moon Has Breath, and Leavened, and a chapbook entitled When You Become Snow. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, L.A. Review, and South Carolina Review.
In his capacity as the preliminary contest judge, the Editor of Songs of Eretz Poetry Review selected several dozen semi-finalists out of the hundreds of poems entered after providing personal feedback to every poet on every poem. Eric McHenry then had the unenviable task of choosing the finalists who were given the chance to provide poet’s notes statements for his consideration. McHenry then had the even more unenviable task of choosing the winner. He made the following comments about the contest in general and about the winner specifically:

Three poems by Doris Ferleger stood out for their beauty, their lucidity, their originality, their balance, and their fearlessness in the face of eternity. She is equally skilled at telling a story, rendering the natural (and the artificial) world in striking detail, and deploying the well-earned aphorism: “We will all forsake someone— / let it not be ourselves.” I’ll carry those lines with me for a long time. Each of her poems is a well-paced journey through a richly detailed physical and emotional landscape. They complicate and change in unexpected ways, and the reader is left feeling changed by them.
Tomorrow, the next day and the day after that Songs of Eretz Poetry Review will feature a poem-a-day from Dr. Ferleger’s winning set that has earned her the Fourth Annual Songs of Eretz Poetry Award and a one thousand dollar honorarium. It is our hope here at Songs of Eretz that winning this award will help to enhance and promote the career of this amazing and talented poet.
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