Applause! Applause! We have two winners!
Tuesday April 13, 2004
in the April InterBoard Poetry Competition!
In his last month as IBPC judge, John Poch selected one of the three poems entered from our Poetry Forum as first place winner: Mitchell Geller’s tautly constructed & wickedly humorous “Villanelle for an English Professor,” lauded as an accomplished example of “the villanelle (a proper one, one that doesn’t cheat)... about the hardest formal poem to write.” Poch also recognized Terry Lucas’ poignant & powerful image-making in “Pictures of the Bisti,” and awarded it third place in the competition. Cheers to both poets -- we’re very proud of you, and grateful for your contributions to the About Poetry Forum!
April is the anniversary month of the IBPC -- and to mark their 5th anniversary this month, we hear they’re changing the name to “InterBoard Poetry Community.” More importantly, the IBPC print anthology is finally going to come out this year, publishing poems selected by Bob Hicok from among all those that have placed in the competition since its beginning in 2000. Also, Peter Murphy, who served as the very first IBPC judge in 2000, has been asked to choose the IBPC “Poem of the Year” from the April 2003 - March 2004 winners.
Keep those nominations coming for our entries in the May IBPC. Post your choice of poems you think should represent our Forum in the IBPC folder, and be sure to notify the poet whose work you have put forward, to give them a chance to supply the information & permissions we must have before we can include the poem among our entries.
Related resources:
About the IBPC
Requirements for IBPC nominees
Anthology of the monthly IBPC winning poems
Archive of poems entered in the IBPC from our Poetry Forum
In his last month as IBPC judge, John Poch selected one of the three poems entered from our Poetry Forum as first place winner: Mitchell Geller’s tautly constructed & wickedly humorous “Villanelle for an English Professor,” lauded as an accomplished example of “the villanelle (a proper one, one that doesn’t cheat)... about the hardest formal poem to write.” Poch also recognized Terry Lucas’ poignant & powerful image-making in “Pictures of the Bisti,” and awarded it third place in the competition. Cheers to both poets -- we’re very proud of you, and grateful for your contributions to the About Poetry Forum!
April is the anniversary month of the IBPC -- and to mark their 5th anniversary this month, we hear they’re changing the name to “InterBoard Poetry Community.” More importantly, the IBPC print anthology is finally going to come out this year, publishing poems selected by Bob Hicok from among all those that have placed in the competition since its beginning in 2000. Also, Peter Murphy, who served as the very first IBPC judge in 2000, has been asked to choose the IBPC “Poem of the Year” from the April 2003 - March 2004 winners.
Keep those nominations coming for our entries in the May IBPC. Post your choice of poems you think should represent our Forum in the IBPC folder, and be sure to notify the poet whose work you have put forward, to give them a chance to supply the information & permissions we must have before we can include the poem among our entries.
Related resources:
About the IBPC
Requirements for IBPC nominees
Anthology of the monthly IBPC winning poems
Archive of poems entered in the IBPC from our Poetry Forum
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