POETRY - 2012
First Place – SeanLause, Bluffton, Ohio – “My Uncle’s Quilt”
Second Place – Catherine Moran, Little Rock, Arkansas – “Dropped on the Doorstep”
Third Place – Adrian S. Potter, Minnetonka, Minnesota – “Bad Luck Sings the Blues”
(Honorable Mentions listed in alphabetic order)
Honorable Mention – Von S. Bourland, Happy, Texas – “Gossamer Webs on Gravestones”
Honorable Mention – Rose Braun, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – “Silent Viper”
Honorable Mention – Bill Cushing, Glendale, California – “To a Mother, On the 2,025th Birthday of her Son”
Honorable Mention – David Dillon, West Glover, Vermont – “Double Coupons”
Honorable Mention – David Dillon, West Glover, Vermont – “Autumn at Apple Inn”
Honorable Mention – LaMar Giles, Linden, New Jersey – “Soup Kitchen”
Honorable Mention – Michelle Hartman, Keller, Texas – “Poetry Is How We Clean It Up”
Honorable Mention – Aaron E. Holst, Sheridan, Wyoming – “Dad”
Honorable Mention – Catherine “Katey” Johnson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – “The Call”
Honorable Mention – Catherine “Katey” Johnson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – “Your First Christmas”
Honorable Mention – Sean Lause, Bluffton, Ohio – “Fired from McDonald’s”
Honorable Mention – Sean Lause, Bluffton, Ohio – “Heaven of Fireflies”
Honorable Mention – Sean Lause, Bluffton, Ohio – “How the Snail Deals with Painful Memories”
Honorable Mention – Sean Lause, Bluffton, Ohio – “Find the Object”
Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “Time . . . and Time Again”
Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “Clean-Up in Rwanda”
Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “Abandoned Garden”
Honorable Mention – Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, California – “Other Americas (in a Haibun)”
Honorable Mention – Diane Maciejewski, Elmwood Park, Illinois – “Rogue River Wind”
Honorable Mention – Carol D. Meeks, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “Away, Lead Me Away”
Honorable Mention – Catherine Moran, Little Rock, Arkansas – “Careening Metaphysics”
Honorable Mention – Patricia A. Oplinger, Cherokee Village, Arkansas – “Poet’s Tense”
Honorable Mention – Patricia A. Oplinger, Cherokee Village, Arkansas – “Independent Living”
Honorable Mention – Michael Karl (Ritchie), Russellville, Arkansas – “The Exploding Inevitable”
Honorable Mention – Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas – “Daybreak Departure”
Honorable Mention – Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas – “Blast from the Past”
Honorable Mention – Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas – “Victory Dance, 1945”
Honorable Mention – Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas – “My Father’s Woodpile”
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