Poems representing our Forum in the January InterBoard Poetry Competition

Our entries have gone to the InterBoard Poetry Community editors for the first competition of the new year, and we hope you will join in applauding the three Forum poets whose work was selected (one old IBPC hand, and two newbies):

• “If the World Were Sexual Today,” by Guy Kettelhack, another of his exquisitely delineated New York City encounters, praised by one reader for its “divine vocabulary and razor-sharp images tucked in a simple rhythm.”
• “So Mote It Be,” by Viola Bow, an original and rhythmic pagan-flavored song in the voice of a pinata.
• “Substance Dualism (Psychedelic Prayer),” by Brandon Lee Brown, a philosophical/ psychological trip into mirrors in the shape of a “provocative musical poem.”

Luck in the judging to all three, and many thanks to the Forum poets who nominated these from among the hundreds of poems posted to our Forum in the last month. This is the first month of Elena Karina Byrne’s three-month term as IBPC judge, so we have posted a brief bio with links to read her work on line and to buy her work, for those of you who would like to get a sense of her poetic orientation.

More on the IBPC:
General information
Requirements for IBPC nominees
Anthology of the monthly IBPC winning poems
Archive of poems entered in the IBPC from our Poetry Forum
Background information, poem links and book-buying links for new IBPC judge Elena Karina Byrne