Winners chosen in the June IBPC, Nominees sought for August

We seem to have gotten a little backed up in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition -- here it is the end of July & we’re only just now announcing June’s winning poems. In his last month as IBPC judge, David Biespiel has chosen three very distinctive winners: in first place, AnnMarie Eldon’s “Dissecting the Stroke,” a segmented tumble of words familiar & newly minted which he cited for its “mixture of diction, high & low, ornate & clammy” & for its “echoes of Wallace Stevens”; in second place Steve Meador’s “Early in Arizona,” an elegantly plain-spoken memory poem that Biespiel called “a finely-made object of local wonder, local color, & straight up talk”; and in third place, Arthur Durkee’s “Green Man,” a poem that transforms everyday tasks into magical evolution & “sees into the essence of things.”

We’ve not yet heard who will serve as judge for the next few months of the InterBoard Poetry Competition, but we expect the July winners soon. In the meantime, now is the time to gather our entries for the August IBPC, and we need your help to find the best work posted on our Forum this month. 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. On Wednesday, August 2 we will select three poems to send in.

Related resources:
About the IBPC
Anthology of winning poems
Requirements for IBPC nominees
Archive of poems entered in the IBPC from our Poetry Forum