One of ours takes first place in the May InterBoard Poetry Competition!

In his first month as IBPC judge, Aaron Welborn has chosen one of the three poems entered from our Poetry Forum as first place winner: Jacob Jans’ simple & lovely “Home,” which won our Forum’s challenge at the end of March for poems inspired by these lines

“When the shell of evening breaks, hatching night;
when flocks of star gulls
flap their twinkling wings in cosmic pools;
when a melon moon hangs low,
and the drums of distant thunder are still;”

Welborn particularly admired “the fusion of sound and sense” in “Home,” and the development of that fusion in its 11 lines: “The hard, crowded sounds of the opening lines gradually give way to a subtler, muted music, drawing us in to a lovely sense of solitude.” Congratulations to Jacob Jans (aka Boplicity) -- we’re very proud of you, and grateful for your contributions to the About Poetry Forum!

We’ve posted all the winning poems in this month’s competition, together with Welborn’s insightful comments, for your reading pleasure.

Keep your nominations coming for our entries in the June 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