Gaby LeMay – 2023 White Mice Poetry Contest – the International Lawrence Durrell Society
The Ventura County Poetry Project is pleased to share the good news that Oxnard poet Gabrielle LeMay recently received. LeMay is the winner of the 2023 White Mice Poetry Contest put on by the International Lawrence Durrell Society. The name of the contest is taken from a phrase in a letter that Durrell wrote to Henry Miller: “Words I carry in my pocket where they breed like white mice.” The International Lawrence Durrell Society sponsors a yearly poetry contest, and this year, it seemed most appropriate to them to center the contest on the theme of ‘Ruins.’ Gabrielle LeMay’s poem, entitled “Child of War,” isRead More →