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  Division I : K-2

  All poems in this division came from 2nd graders in this class:

  Scouters Mountain Elementary

  10811 SE 172nd Ave.

  Happy Valley, OR 97086

  Teacher—Stephenie Rhea

  Abbie Johnson

  Azam Yusuf

  Corbin Kassab

  Elsa Witkowski

  Scarlet Herzog

  Division II: 3-5

  Christian Graham, 3rd grade

  Keating Elementary

  41964 Miles Bridge Road

  Baker City, OR 97814

  Teacher—Mrs. Amanda Wilde

  Jacob Hill, 3rd grade

  Tualatin Elementary School

  20405 SW. 95th Ave.

  Tualatin, OR 97062

  Teacher—Kathryn Lepore

  Kashton Anderson, 3rd grade

  

  Mortality with
  Pronoun Shifts
  by Don Colburn

  Winner of
  the 2018 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest

  Main
  Street Rag Publishing Company, 2019, 40 pages, $12

  ISBN:
  978-1-59948-732-8

  Available
  at https://mainstreetragbookstore.com

  Mortality.
  It’s a mighty word that has the potential to haunt each of us on our walk
  through life, forcing us to face the inevitable. Yet somehow, in his
  prize-winning chapbook Mortality with
  Pronoun Shifts, Don Colburn has not
  only made our impermanence more palatable, but almost endearing.

  For instance,
  in “En Plein Air” he takes the reader on a trek through fields only to return
  to a favorite spot in which to immortalize the day’s offerings on canvas:

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