| Place | Poet | Poem | ||
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Category 1. Theme: Masks and Mazes
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| 1st | William Preston | Hallway | ||
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Category 2. Fixed Forms
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| 1st | Stephen Thomas | Morning Carpool | ||
| 2nd | Ed Bearden | Faded Love | ||
| 3rd | Jeanne Lupton | Fat Lady Sonnet | ||
| HM 1 | Catherine Moran | Donating Blood | ||
| HM 2 | Norberta Fullen | Shot Through the Heart | ||
| HM 3 | Bill Latimer | Robert Bunsen | ||
| HM 4 | William Preston | Sweeper | ||
| HM 5 | Susan Beem | In Flagrant Delicato | ||
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Category 3. Short Poem
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| 1st | Nora Radaikin | Beside the Cactus | ||
| 2nd | Stephen Thomas | Just forgotten: | ||
| 3rd | Bruce Crawford | Holding a Cup | ||
| HM 1 | Evelyn Stecher |
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| HM 2 | Jeanne Lupton | Power | ||
| HM 3 | Timothy Russell | Trompe L'Oeil | ||
| HM 4 | Frances Yordan | The Dream | ||
| HM 5 | Margaret Ellis Hill | Cranes Flying at Sunset | ||
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Category 4. Any Subject, Any Style
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| 1st | Carol Louise Moon | Shells of Pink and Beige | ||
| 2nd | Nancee Kinkaid Maya | Herasto says | ||
| 3rd | Susan Beem | Questions to a Dead Philosopher | ||
| HM 1 | Jeanne Lupton | Sam | ||
| HM 2 | Mary Rudge | Beach Scene | ||
| HM 3 | Donna Honeycutt | Picking Over the Pintos | ||
| HM 4 | Patricia Nichol | Greater Love | ||
| HM 5 | Selma Calnan | Candles and Candlesticks | ||
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Catergory 5. Light or Humorous Poem
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| 1st | Don Feliz | Yard of Tools | ||
| 2nd | William Preston | A Fundamental Rule for Composing Poems Meant to Amuse Rather Than Edify | ||
| 3rd | Selma Calnan | The Romeo of the Senior Center | ||
| HM 1 | Lee Collins | Those Gardens I Love | ||
| HM 2 | Lynn M. Hansen | When All Else Fails | ||
| HM 3 | Nora Radaikin | It Is Difficult | ||
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Category 6. Nature
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| 1st | Catherine Moran | Nothing can hide in winter | ||
| 2nd | Claire Baker | When Loss Exceeds Mystery | ||
| 3rd | Katy Brown | Out of their purple throats, | ||
| HM 1 | William Preston | Birdsong in January | ||
| HM 2 | Carol Louise Moon | Crocodilian Vision | ||
| HM 3 | Susan Beem | On Old Route 66 — Twenty Miles East of Oatman | ||
| HM 4 | Cleo Griffith | This Marvelous Quilt | ||
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Category 7. Science and Technology
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| 1st | Katy Brown | The Nature of Matter and Space | ||
| 2nd | Ed Bearden | Light | ||
| 3rd | Susan Beem | On Stopping an Asteroid | ||
| HM 1 | William Preston | Cochlear Implant | ||
| HM 2 | Don Feliz | Titanoboa | ||
| HM 3 | Margaret Ellis Hill | Climbing In and Out of Sleep | ||
| HM 4 | Claire Baker | A Launching of Poets | ||
| HM 3 | Selma Calnan | Seasonings and Inconstant Comments | ||
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Category 8. California
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| 1st | Lynn M. Hansen | Okie Poet of Tulare | ||
| 2nd | Margaret Ellis Hill | The Truckee River | ||
| 3rd | Joyce Odam | The Ventura Nuns | ||
| HM 1 | Mary Rudge | For an Assyrian Friend (on not losing language) | ||
| HM 2 | Katy Brown | Pale shades of old cream, | ||
| HM 3 | Linda Marie Prather | Aptos, March Eleventh | ||
| HM 4 | James Shuman | Gone | ||
| HM 5 | Nancee Kinkaid Maya | Path of the Padres | ||
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Category 9. Friendship
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| 1st | Joyce Odam | Heart to Heart | ||
| 2nd | Elizabeth Coard | Cold Porridge | ||
| 3rd | Linda Marie Prather | Poets and Friends | ||
| HM 1 | Donna Honeycutt | I Wish | ||
| HM 2 | Don Feliz | Pain's Message | ||
| HM 3 | Selma Calnan | Friends | ||
| HM 4 | Katy Brown | For Emily | ||
| HM 5 | William Preston | Friend | ||
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Category 10. Lois Jeannette Dalton Memorial Award: any aspect of Humanity
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| 1st | Joyce Odam | Whale | ||
| 2nd | Mary Rudge | Survival of Frida Kahlo | ||
| 3rd | Richard Angilly | Poets' Park | ||
| HM 1 | James Shuman | Flower Gatherer | ||
| HM 2 | Linda Marie Prather | Two Roses | ||
| HM 3 | Jeanne Lupton | Surrender | ||
| HM 4 | Catherine Moran | Your children leave | ||
| HM 5 | Bruce Crawford | Sokkuram Grotto, S. Korea | ||
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Category 11. Roscoe Fortson Memorial Award: Looking Backward
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| 1st | Ed Bearden | A Christmas Moon | ||
| 2nd | Betty Temple | Seamstress | ||
| 3rd | W. Shirley Nunes | I Heard Not Words But Love | ||
| HM 1 | Lynn M. Hansen | Class | ||
| HM 2 | Katy Brown | I Knew Grass | ||
| HM 3 | Carol Louise Moon | There I Went, Afar Off | ||
| HM 4 | Norma Kohout | Dad Was Different | ||
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Category 12. Pegasus Buchanan Memorial Award: any subject Rhymed & Metered
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| 1st | Ed Bearden | Attraction/Subtraction | ||
| 2nd | William Preston | Skydance | ||
| 3rd | Evelyn Stecher | Homily | ||
| HM 1 | W. Shirley Nunes | Year's End | ||
| HM 2 | Jeanne Lupton | Nothin' but the Blues | ||
| HM 3 | Carol Louise Moon | Hometown Cemetery | ||
| HM 4 | Katherine Wilson | A Future Reminiscence | ||
| HM 5 | Norberta Fullen | I'll Never Forget | ||
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Category 13. Executive Board: Jumping Ship
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| 1st | Elizabeth Coard | Volzenwoorden | ||
| 2nd | James Shuman | The Gate Post | ||
| 3rd | Bill Rowen | David Jackson's Last Night in the Alley | ||
