Winners chosen in the May InterBoard Poetry Competition

We’ve just received the announcement of the poems selected by judge Duncan Mercredi as winners in last month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition. Because our Forum poets did not make a single nomination, we had no entries in the May IBPC and of course no winners.

• In first place, Mercredi chose “Mariposa,” by Tim Blighton, the tale of a lonely drinker roaming bars where “The moon is a busker, borrowing as it travels..”
• He awarded second place to “Evidence Hanging on a Rusty Nail” by Brian J. Mackay, a poem that brings memory to life in the discovery of a brother’s “old football boots... / hanging on a rusty nail in the shed / next to my spare salmon fly rod.”
• In third place, he selected “The Marsh at Dusk” by Steve Meador, a poet’s skillful navigation of the nuances of beauty and danger in the natural world.

Mercredi also made honorable mention of three more poems without comment: “Dad Never Read Novels” by Christopher T. George, “The absence of spaces between words” by Alexandre Nodopaka, and “Her obituary will look nothing like her” by Alex Stolis.

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 and reading links s for current IBPC judge Duncan Mercredi