| Place | Poet | Poem | ||
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Category 1. Theme: Hope
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| 1st | Joyce Odam | The Mutating Self | ||
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Category 2. Fixed Forms
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| 1st | Stephen Thomas | Del Puerto Canyon, Spring 2001 | ||
| 2nd | Selma D. Calnan | Swedish Pearl | ||
| 3rd | William Preston | Saloon Singer | ||
| HM 1 | James Shuman | On the difficulty of using a Spring Kigo | ||
| HM 2 | Katharine Wilson | Paper Dragon | ||
| HM 3 | debee loyd | being bohemian | ||
| HM 4 | Joyce Odam | Testing Her Wings | ||
| HM 5 | Helen Graziano | Italian Tryst — The Letter "A" | ||
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Category 3. Short Poem
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| 1st | Ed Bearden | Well, | ||
| 2nd | Betty Temple | Door | ||
| 3rd | Katy Brown | The way she unwraps the morning: | ||
| HM 1 | Elaine Lazzeroni |
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| HM 2 | Meghan Pence | Farewell | ||
| HM 3 | Susan Beem | Falling into Grace | ||
| HM 4 | Allegra Silberstein | Quietly I come to this day | ||
| HM 5 | Norma Kohout | No Toys, No Gingerbread Men | ||
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Category 4. Any Subject, Any Style
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| 1st | David Anderson | Aftermath | ||
| 2nd | Joyce Odam | Homilies | ||
| 3rd | Elsie Whitlow Feliz | The Universe Never Rests | ||
| HM 1 | Cleo Griffith | What They Came For | ||
| HM 2 | Donna Honeycutt | Lingering Love | ||
| HM 3 | Linda Marie Prather | Night Walk | ||
| HM 4 | Katy Brown | Of Cherries and Shadows | ||
| HM 5 | Patricia L. Nichol | Full Circle | ||
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Catergory 5. Light or Humorous Poem
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| 1st | Claire J. Baker | Contemplating the Navel | ||
| 2nd | Joyce Elaine Wheeler, Ed.D. | A Risk Free Confession | ||
| 3rd | Elaine Lazzeroni | The Dinner Party | ||
| HM 1 | Lee Collins | Airport Maze | ||
| HM 2 | Donna Honeycutt | After Reading Rumi (the 13th Century Poet) | ||
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Category 6. Nature
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| 1st | Norma King Green | untitled haiku | ||
| 2nd | Betty Temple | Ojito | ||
| 3rd | Don Feliz | Elk River Spring | ||
| HM 1 | Carol Louise Moon | The Repose of June | ||
| HM 2 | Stephen Thomas | Beach Comber | ||
| HM 3 | Nancee Kinkaid Maya | Caswell September Sundown | ||
| HM 4 | William Preston | Wild Canterbury Bells at Morongo Valley | ||
| HM 5 | Donna Honeycutt | Fitting Because It Was Viet Nam | ||
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Category 7. Science and Technology
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| 1st | Allegra Silberstein | Within the Words | ||
| 2nd | Cleo Griffith | Eating an Apple after Eve | ||
| 3rd | M. Elizabeth Coard | Knasas | ||
| HM 1 | Susan Beem | Pavlov's Dog: Take 2 | ||
| HM 2 | Elaine Lazzeroni | Earthling | ||
| HM 3 | Norma Kohout | The Mechanical Monster at Martinez | ||
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Category 8. California
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| 1st | Ed Bearden | Wetback | ||
| 2nd | Helen Graziano | View from the Wild | ||
| 3rd | Nancee Kinkaid Maya | 7th Street Flea Market | ||
| HM 1 | Katy Brown | Snow Geese in the Yolo Bypass | ||
| HM 2 | Elaine Lazzeroni | California native | ||
| HM 3 | William Preston | Marking Time: Dawn Off San Diego | ||
| HM 4 | Lynn M. Hansen | Walk to Wapama Falls | ||
| HM 5 | Lee Collins | An Off Ramp to Freedom, California | ||
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Category 9. Friendship
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| 1st | Linda Marie Prather | Yak, Yak | ||
| 2nd | James Shuman | The Carving | ||
| 3rd | Elsie Whitlow Feliz | Friends in the Garden | ||
| HM 1 | Evelyn E. Stecher | Old Days | ||
| HM 2 | Norma Kohout | Reminiscing in Candlelight | ||
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Category 10. Lois Jeannette Dalton Memorial Award: any aspect of Humanity
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| 1st | Steve McCord | Tangled Tails | ||
| 2nd | Cathy Dana | When My Soul Begins to Sing . . . | ||
| 3rd | Mary Rudge | The Wednesday After Tuesday | ||
| HM 1 | Katy Brown | Endings and the Promise of Endings | ||
| HM 2 | Roberta Bearden | The Plain Man | ||
| HM 3 | Evelyn E. Stecher | A Moment in Time | ||
| HM 4 | Roslyn Farkas | A Poem for a Quadriplegic | ||
| HM 5 | Linda Marie Prather | You Call This Natural? | ||
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Category 11. Roscoe Fortson Memorial Award: Looking Backward
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| 1st | Carol Louise Moon | Ghazals in Small Spaces | ||
| 2nd | Nancee Kinkaid Maya | Secret Six | ||
| 3rd | Ed Bearden | The Contestant | ||
| HM 1 | Allegra Silberstein | On a farm long ago . . . | ||
| HM 2 | Norberta E. Fullen | Five Foot Eleven and a Half | ||
| HM 3 | Lynn M. Hansen | I Speak for the Dead | ||
| HM 4 | Judith Lyn Sutton | Bygone Ways | ||
| HM 5 | Alice Liu | Peas and Carrots | ||
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Category 12. Pegasus Buchanan Memorial Award: any subject Rhymed & Metered
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| 1st | William Preston | Port-au-Prince | ||
| 2nd | Elaine Lazzeroni | The Healer (for Roscoe Fortson) | ||
| 3rd | Elsie Whitlow Feliz | Chalk Marks the Spot | ||
| HM 1 | Frances K. Neves | What Is a Shoe? | ||
| HM 2 | Claire J. Baker | Learning the Music | ||
| HM 3 | Carol Louise Moon | Sonetella for a Fly | ||
| HM 4 | Cleo Griffith | Needing to Breathe | ||
| HM 5 | Evelyn E. Stecher | The Reluctant Apprentice | ||
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Category 13. Executive Board: Jumping Ship
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| 1st | Cleo Griffith | With Arms Full of Sun | ||
| 2nd | William Preston | Reverie | ||
| 3rd | Stephen Thomas | Leap of Faith | ||
