Nationally-recognized judge, Anna DiBella, awarded three poets awards of excellence in the annual Cape Cod Branch of the NLAPW Haiku Contest,July 2011.
She states, "Each Haiku rates equally in creative diversity, presenting unique aspects of contemporary American Haiku writing in both form and content. I cannot separate them into first, second and third."
Patricia A. Oplinger's winning first line: " as deep as your eyes ... "
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,