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Many thanks for sending your work to the Geist Erasure Poetry Contest. We considered more than 250 entries, and though your poem was not chosen as one of the winners, we appreciate you giving it a try.

The winners have been announced in our winter issue, on newsstands now.

You may also be interested in other fun Geist writing contests. Information on the 10th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest is now available online. The deadline for entries is February 1, 2014.