Poems representing our Forum in the July InterBoard Poetry Competition

Our Forum has been graced with some very fine work by new members in the last month, and poems by two newcomers have been chosen for entry in the IBPC along with one by a poet whose work has represented us several times before. Our July entries are:

• “The Critic” by Sergio Ortiz (saore), a poem full of images that some readers saw as “original,” others as “unnecessarily arcane,” reminding one Forum poet of “Yevtushenko’s emotionally honest and searing style.”
• “Along the Chippewa,” a lovely memory-song by Tim J. Brennan (68degrees), described by the poet who chose to nominate it as “a beautiful, tranquil tribute that captures the essence of the river.”
• “Water the Fish” by Brooke Watson aka Doctorshoot, an echoing long-lined poem that was voted co-winner of the most recently concluded challenge.

Kudos and luck in the judging to all three poets! We have a new judge for the next three months: professor and sonneteer Tony Barnstone. For those of you who want to get more familiar with him and his work, we’ve posted a page of links. We’ll be back to report as soon as we’ve received his winning choices.

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
July - September judge, Tony Barnstone