I started April with a poem presented in St. Johnsbury's PoemTown event, framed around the solar eclipse -- and then on April 4, had this lovely news (scroll:
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Congratulations to our honorable mentions!
Runner-Up:
Rick Rohdenburg from Duluth, GA: Crows Fly from My Mouth
Finalists:
Melissa Cannon from Antioch, TN: Doll/Face
Kathy O’Fallon from Carlsbad, CA: Listening for Tchaikovsky
Semi-Finalists:
Karen Bashkirew from Bozeman, MT: Stillpoint
Sheila Bonnell from South Orleans, MA: Albedo
Helen Bournas-Ney from New York, NY: Just Like the Sky, but Nearer
Helen Chinitz from Walton, NY: If Summer Sear the Landscape
Sandra Cutuli from Los Angeles, CA: Tracks and Signs
Marc Douglass-Smith from Lebanon, NH: A River in Still Life
Deborah French Frisher from Mill Valley, CA: Howl Now & 52 Other Poems
Gordon Grilz from Tucson, Arizona: Just North of My Dreams: A Collection of Poems from Prison
Judy Kaber from Belfast, ME: Landscape with Rocks, Sky, Nails
Elizabeth Kanell from Waterford, VT: Break-Out Room
Ellen Lager from Robbinsdale, MN: Buried Beneath All That Love
Nancy Meyer from Portola Valley, CA: The Stoop and The Steeple
Michael Mulvihill from Staunton, VA: The Distant Pines
Phillip Periman from Amarillo, TX: Dying: The First Six Years
Jim Scutti from Vero Beach, FL: Family Planet
Richelle Slota from San Francisco, CA: Letters to My Dead Name
Jil St. Ledger-Roty from Franklinville, NY: Lost and Found and Lost Again
Steven Winn from San Francisco, CA: Late Light
Avra Wing from Brooklyn, NY: Mammoth Life & Accident
Cynthia Woods from Philadelphia, PA: Lines Over 70
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For those who are curious -- Break-Out Room is a collection of poems, at the length called a chapbook. It's back out in another competition, and I'll let you know when it garners its next award. I'm following in the footsteps of some of the best writers I know in this decision: Each time it doesn't quite reach a book contract, polish it a bit more and add more skill and joy to it, and send it out again.
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