One of ours takes third place in the October IBPC

For the second month in a row (under two different judges), an entry from our Poetry Forum was chosen in third place in the InterBoard Poetry Competition. Congratulations to Tim J. Brennan, whose poem “a good day to die” impressed judge E. Ethelbert Miller with the beauty of its language and the way “The four sections of this poem capture the passing of time very well. There is an Eastern sentiment hidden in each part...” Tim’s poems have been selected as entries representing the About Poetry Forum several times before this, but this is the first time his work has placed among the IBPC judge’s winners -- Bravo, Tim!

The other winning poems Miller chose for September were:

• In first place, “Afterglow” by Elodie Ackerman, a poem in which “innocence is thrown against the landscape” as a hasty marriage disintegrates, leaking oil across the country.
• In second place, “A Woman of Summer” by Nochipa, a celebration of the evidence of “a life / well-lived” on the female body, a poem whose “tercets create their own column of power and resemble a tree trunk.”

Miller also chose four poems from four different online boards for honorable mention, without comment: “The Last Bus Home” by Judith Anne Labriola, “Millstone” by Kathleen Vibbert, “Exchange” by DJ Vorreyer, and “Ungodly Apartment Building” by Teresa White.

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