The National Federation of State Poetry Societies announces their 2016 Winners' List.
The National Federation of State Poetry Societies 57th Annual Convention was held in St. Paul, Minnesota June 9 -12. 2016.
Fifty contests were open to competition. Patricia A. Oplinger was thrilled to receive a 4th Honorable Mention in Contest 10: Utah State Poetry Society's Award for my free verse titled "And the Heavens Cried".
As a resident of Arkansas for the past 21 years, I feel drawn to the Cherokee Nation's history. Part of The Trail of Tears runs through the foothills of the Ozark Mountains where I live. My poem reflects the time in history when the Cherokee suffered at the hands of our government.
Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
