Stone of Madness Press x Lucas Restivo Fall 2023 Poetry Contest

Dimitri Karakostas is archivist living on an isolated island somewhere in the northeast. After two half-hearted retirements from the Internet, he is now ‘so back.’

Finalists

Sagar Vasishtha, “Basketball Haiku #2”

JT Marchant, “I’m a Potato”

Anthony Tomkins, “The Kafka Gym”

Scott McDowell, “Frogs of War”

About the Judge

Lucas Restivo is a Massachusetts-renowned healer, unguided mediator, and spiritual savant. His patented Prayers Of Extraordinary Measurables(POEMs) system has transformed the lives of dozens, in his mountain-moving collections Fucko (Bullshit Lit) and How To Cure A Romatic (Bug World). HTML oasises like Back Patio, Stone of Madness Press, Voicemail Lit, Ghost City, and Hobary, among others, provide him divine nourishment from the deserts of destructions and pornography online.