October 2023

2023 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS MEMBERS ONLY,  JUDGE JERI THERIAULT 1st Place: Given Davis, “Catch and Release” 2nd Place: David A. Goodrum, “My Middle Brother Bleeding” 3rd Place: Nancy Flynn, “provenance” 1st HM: Jone Rush MacCulloch, “I Dreamt of Crows” 2nd HM: Jennifer Rood, “Shooting Star Cento” 3rd HM: Rachel Barton, “A Willamette Valley Solstice”

NEW POETS, JUDGE ALEX DANG 1st Place: Steve Slemenda, “Memorial” 2nd Place: Savannah Busby, “Months Poem” 3rd Place: Nicholas Denning, “Grow” 1st HM: Zachary Paul, “Hello” 2nd HM: Jill Flores, “Commonwealth Lake Park” 3rd HM: Mark Fryburg, “Family Vacation – Memoir” Judge’s Comments: “Memorial”: Fantastic use of the epitaph looking like a gravestone! Succinct, precise,

2023 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS TRADITONAL– ELEGY, JUDGE DEREK SHEFFIELD 1st Place: Steve Slemenda, “Elegy” 2nd Place: John Miller, “Help Me Finish” 3rd Place: Elisa Carlsen, “Beneath Sonoma Range” 1st HM: M.L. Lyons, “The Vanishing” 2nd HM: Davis J.S. Pickering, “Summer 2020, Portland Oregon—an Elegy (of Sorts) 3rd HM: Vivienne Popperl, “To the Members of

2023 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS THEMED—EKPHRASIS: JUDGE JENNIFER PERINNE 1st Place: Crystal Willer, “Diptych in Black and White” 2nd Place: Connie Soper, “I and the Village” 3rd Place: Nancy Flynn, “Learning to See” 1st HM: Louise Barden, “Pieta: 1964 World’s Fair” 2nd HM: Keli Osborn, “A Certain Constellation” 3rd HM: Suzy Harris, “To Marc Chagall’s