Poems representing our Forum in the August IBPC

Once again we’ve selected the work of three poets who have served before as our envoys to this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition:

• Sam Packard (Ilalex)’s untitled winner of the Forum’s most recent challenge, a poem inspired by lines from Irving Layton’s “The Birth of Tragedy” -- “A quiet madman, never far from tears....”
• “Voices” by Guy Kettelhack (GuyBlakeKett), a poem that walks the edge of the abyss, between madness & bliss.
• “Travel Plans” by Mitchell Geller (EDowson), a finely worked Parisian dream sonnet.

Kudos & luck in the judging to all our poets, and thanks to everyone who nominated poems or posted permissions.

We’ve just received information on the new team of judges for the IBPC, Tree Riesener & Peter Krok of The Schuylkill Valley Journal in Pennsylvania, and while we’re awaiting their choices from both the July & August entries, we’ve put together a background page on the two of them so that you can read some of their work published online & get a feel for their tastes.

Related resources:
Tree Riesener & David Krok, July - September IBPC judges
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