Adult Contest Winners

These poems were submitted for the spring 2017 contest themed category judged by Charles Goodrich, but were omitted from Verseweavers 22. Any future reprints of Verseweavers 22 will include the Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. They will also be Included in the upcoming Verseweavers 23 to be published late spring 2019.   Effigy of a Man by […]

These poems were submitted for the spring 2017 contest themed category judged by Charles Goodrich, but were omitted from Verseweavers 22. Any future reprints of Verseweavers 22 will include the Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. They will also be Included in the upcoming Verseweavers 23 to be published late spring 2019. Writing on Rivers by Steve Jones

These poems were submitted for the spring 2017 contest themed category judged by Charles Goodrich, but were omitted from Verseweavers 22. Any future reprints of Verseweavers 22 will include the Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. They will also be Included in the upcoming Verseweavers 23 to be published late spring 2019. Friday Afternoon by Michael Hanner After

These poems were submitted for the spring 2017 contest themed category judged by Charles Goodrich, but were omitted from Verseweavers 22. Any future reprints of Verseweavers 22 will include the Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. They will also be Included in the upcoming Verseweavers 23 to be published late spring 2019. Honorable mentions 1. “What to Love”

This poem appeared in Verseweavers 21, with incorrect lineation. This is the correct form. It will also be included as an erratum with future orders of Verseweavers 21. #EmilyDickinsonSaveMeNow, by Nancy Flynn I am the lazy housewife bean. I don’t want to see or be seen. See me stalked, in- tending to be left to

Cross-Country Bus by Charlotte Abernathy   Miles beyond midnight, beyond another state line, past service station signs glaring from high pylons, beyond remnants of a weary town, one last overhead reading light clicks off. In the dark, drowsy voices merge with the droning motor, the roaring tires. Cold window glass rumbles hard against my forehead

Muggins Discovers His New Boundaries by Dave Harvey   Full of years when we moved here, he took to the back yard like an old soldier, patrolled his post, lolled in the summer sun (working on his kitty-tan).   Then a foreign cat came in, and Muggins, deep-dyed chauvinist about foreign cats, launched a silent

Something There Is by Kim Hamilton   They plead latitude document 13 article A hand the map of scars back   folded in your lap at crossing the green skin   was a prayer you made with your feet and stayed there.       Judge’s comments I was drawn to the category, Borders and

Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Crossing” by Helen Puciloski, Rainier, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Territory” by Cynthia Jacobi, Newport, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Unfinished Things” by Marvin Lurie, Portland, OR     Judge’s comments I was drawn to the category, Borders and Boundaries, because it is a subject that I ponder often and I often

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Hanna Litwinowicz   I fail to acknowledge the car’s on fire Got me where I am, radio’s still on Our parts lacked components the machine required Perhaps, me and you sweetie, same things gone No bare-leg runs, daisies cut tac-toe-tics You didn’t hear my heart across the room