The Prince: First Anniversary by Carolyn Martin She will not let it go: her narrative about shape-shifting steeds and bullying step-relatives. I’ve begged her to delete the past and re-compose her life. I can’t, she turns her back on me. Not now. Not yet. The fact is she electrified that night. The metaphor of lightning […]
2019 Fall Contest Winner: Traditional Form—2nd Place, Blank Verse Read More »
Elegy for Hands by Susan Morse My hands are like a tree. Cut them open Expose the rings. Take notice, I tell you! Cupped upon my fingers, ten moons, each one unique with its own spots, mapped with imprints of this world, whole histories carved within. My left hand the sluggard, unlearned—the right, ambitious, pimp
2019 Fall Contest Winner: Traditional Form—Blank Verse, 3rd Place Read More »
1st Honorable Mention: “Full Moons” by Susanne Twight-Alexander, Eugene, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “The Dandelion’s Rant” by Paul Telles, Beaverton, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Finding My Song” by Barbara Blanks, Garland, TX
2019 Fall Contest, Traditional Form—Blank Verse: Honorable Mentions Read More »
The Porch in Summer by Lynn Robertson In the deep of heat, sides of laid-out dogs rise shallow-quick, their tongues loll limp, dirt crust fringes their foaming drool. Wasps circle haze, as if they were a crumble of leaves with no whisk of wind to carry them away. Like an old man’s temper a film
2019 Fall Contest Winner: Theme—Our Common Life, 1st Place Read More »
Abatement by Suzy Harris Against this hundred-year house, ladders rise up from one story to the next, and the paint is scraped away, bit by bit, exposing raw boards to the bright August sun. Men covered in white suits call back and forth like in a church, call and response. They build a chapel of
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Debris by Stephanie Striffler you and I pick our way through tsunami debris claws of bare tree up-ended tires Harley Davidson soccer ball the task has fallen to us an ocean away to fill bags with ragged styrofoam remnants forever undegradable oyster farm buoys stamped with undecipherable characters carried from a disaster more than
2019 Fall Contest Winner: Theme—Our Common Life, 3rd Place Read More »
1st Honorable Mention: “The Neighbor Brings a Boat Home” by Colette Jonopulos, Denver, CO 2nd Honorable Mention: “Facing the Light” by Jana Carp, Salem, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Earth: An Abecedarian Ode” by Alida Rol, Eugene, OR Judge’s comments Judging poetry is always weighty. We are tasked with selecting one poem over another and ranking
2019 Fall Contest, Theme—Our Common Life: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments Read More »
Poet’s Choice — Carl Adamshick, Judge 1st Place: “Tiny Blue Flowers” by Danielle Stricklin, Eugene, OR 2nd Place: “Original Face” by Michael Selker, Portland, OR 3rdPlace: “My Selfie Poem” by Cynthia Jacobi, Newport, OR 1st Honorable Mention: “Barbizon Nightgowns” by Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, McMinnville, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Do Not Be Afraid” by Michael Hanner, Eugene,
Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2019 Contest Winners Read More »
Judge’s comments I ultimately awarded first place to “Loaded trunk falling down a flight of stairs like choir birds” for its unrelenting imagery and the author’s broad perspective on the theme. —Nancy Carol Moody Poet bio Shari Crane Fox comes from Cherokee, Lakota, Blackfoot and Irish roots. She holds advanced degrees from the University of
2019 Spring Contest Winner: 1st Place, Theme–Climate Read More »
Judge’s comments My second-place choice, “Assemblage. The Anthropocene,” successfully employs the device of a visual artwork (the assemblage of the title) to imagine a geographical reality in urgently enjambed and insistent language. —Nancy Carol Moody Poet bio Michael G. Smith’s poetry has been published in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, Crannóg, Labletter, Nimrod,
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