| Place | Poet | Poem | |
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Category 1.
Fixed Forms
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| 1st | Joyce Odam |
Emissary (tartoum) |
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| 2nd | Neal Whitman |
A Lover’s Lament (ryuka, Okinawa) |
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| 3rd | Louise Moises |
Roadside Crosses
(concrete) |
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| 1 HM | Judith Sutton |
Burning (acrostic) | |
| 2 HM | Sharon Mahany |
Imagine (Fibonacci concrete) | |
| 3 HM | Nancy Haskett |
A Promise of Rebirth (pantoum) | |
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Category 2.
Short Poem
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| 1st | Norma Kohout |
There Was Nothing | |
| 2nd | Katy Brown |
Otherwise, We Look So Normal | |
| 3rd | Tom Myers |
Tendrils |
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| 1 HM |
Louise Kantro |
One Year, Three Years, Seven Years |
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| 2 HM |
Joyce Odam |
The Shining Rain | |
| 3 HM |
Sharon Mahany |
Winter Warp | |
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Category 3. Any
Subject, Any Style
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| 1st | Cathy Dana |
To My Mom: She Came Out Once |
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| 2nd | Pat Egenberger |
I Do Not Write Love Poems |
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| 3rd | John Swartz |
Tedium To Rhapsody |
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| 1 HM |
Tom Myers |
Darwin Revisited | |
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Catergory 4.
Light or Humorous Poem
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| 1st | Pat Egenberger |
Mercurial Poem |
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| 2nd | Daniel Williams |
Shopping In the Millennial Grocery | |
| 3rd | Carol Quinlan |
Love at 78 |
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| 1 HM | Louise Moises |
The Nose Knows | |
| 2 HM | Robin Odam |
Two More Miles | |
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Category 5.
Nature
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| 1st | Tom Myers |
Biding Their Time |
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| 2nd | Daniel Williams |
The Nature of Daylight |
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| 3rd | Judith Sutton |
To Winter |
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| 1 HM |
(tie) Jennifer Fenn |
Real Rain in Our Valley |
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| 1 HM |
(tie) Nancy Fowler |
Sandhill Cranes at Dusk |
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| 2 HM |
(tie) Linda Aschbrenner |
All We Do Is Talk About Snow |
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| 2 HM | (tie) John Swartz |
Fall Fury | |
| 3 HM | Katy Brown |
Reflection By a Frozen Lake | |
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Category 6.
Technology and the Human Condition
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| 1st | Sharon Mahany |
On a Dream and a Prayer
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| 2nd | Norma Kohout |
The Informal Building of Planes in Depression Days |
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| 3rd | Claire J. Baker |
When NASA Calls |
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| 1 HM |
Carol Quinlan |
Are We Here? |
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| 2 HM |
Katy Brown |
The Absence of Maps in the Land of Grief | |
| 3 HM |
Joyce Odam |
Imaginary Study of Leaves and a White Flower | |
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Category 7.
California
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| 1st | Judith Sutton |
Solstice | |
| 2nd | Helen Kanevsky |
His Only Poem |
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| 3rd | Katy Brown |
Paradise in Ashes |
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| 1 HM | Cathy Dana |
Secrets of the Virgin Mary | |
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Category 8. Thoughts on Humanity
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| 1st | Daniel Williams |
The Children Ran |
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| 2nd | Nancy Haskett |
Ash |
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| 3rd | Katy Brown |
Slipping Away | |
| 1 HM | Pat Egenberger |
Jack London’s Wolf House |
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| 2 HM | Cathy Dana |
Retiring After Fourteen Years of Teaching | |
| 3 HM | Arlene Downing-Yaconelli |
On the Street |
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| posted 10:00 pm 3/31/22 |
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