Poetry. CIRCASSIAN GIRL by Michele Mitchell-Foust is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Inaugural Poetry Awards. This is a book abounding in evocation’s (often subtle and indiscreet, yet always energetic), of museums, galleries, stages–all such bounded areas within which events are given leave to be. These poems are an exhilarating set of dynamism’s–Bin Ramke. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Denver Quarterly, The Nation, and Colorado Review. She lives in California.