2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS POETS CHOICE CATEGORY, JUDGE BRIAN SNEEDEN 1st Place, “The Séance” – Cynthia Boersma 2nd Place, “Invitation” – Richard Robbins 3rd Place, “Star Signals” – Jessica Kolman 1st HM, “Riffing on William Stafford” – Michael Lasater 2nd HM, “Inflamed” – Sherri Levine 3rd HM, “Mars Ain’t the Kind of Place to […]
2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS MEMBERS ONLY CATEGORY, JUDGE KIM STAFFORD 1st Place, “Star Struck” — Dale Champlin 2nd Place, “Cul-de-Sac” — Richard Robbins 3rd Place, “Every day I Get Closer to Knowing How to Say Goodbye” – Linda Drach 1st HM, “Lake Inguadona” – Sharon Johnson 2nd HM, “Recipe for a Long Life”
2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS NEW POETS CATEGORY, JUDGE WILLA SCHNEBERG Ist Place, “Los Liones Canyon” — Patricia Farrell 2nd Place, “The 24th of January (The Invasion of Ukraine)” — Suzanne Pearce 3rd Place, “Stage 4” — Alanna Pass 1st HM, “Poem about a Song” –Jessica Kolman 2nd HM, “My Brother a Moment” – M.
2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS TRADITIONAL EPISTOLARY, JUDGE DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN 1st Place, “Postcard from January” – Connie Soper (an epistolary pantoum!) 2nd Place:, “Dear Friend” – Dan Kaufman (wonderfully surprising language throughout!) 3rd Place, “To the Stylist Who Cut My Hair Last Winter” – Keli Osborn (how the wry humor throughout manages to vacillate
2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS THEME WILDLIFE (ANY INTERPRETATION), JUDGE KELLI RUSSELL AGODON 1st Place, “Broken Line” — Ann Farley 2nd Place, “Vinterstid1/Winter’s Time” – Auna Johannessen 3rd Place, “Extinction Dreams after Beachie Creek Fire” — Carey Taylor Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): “Snow Globe Valentine” – Shawn Aveningo-Sanders “Of the Wild Bees Living
