Poems representing our Forum in the June IBPC

We have sent in three very fine poems from our Poetry Forum as this month’s entries in the InterBoard Poetry Competition:

• “Spring,” by Melissa Resch (BostonArtist), a lovely lyric greeting the natural manifestations of the New England season in three-line stanzas.
• “The Big Easy,” Bernard Hamel’s rich invocation of the summer season in a more tropical clime.
• “My Grief,” by Sherrylynne Mitchell (starbluedreamer), a powerful elegiac cry of loss.

Luck in the judging to all three, and many thanks to the Forum poet — cumin — who nominated these from among the hundreds of poems posted to our Forum in the last month. We hope the rest of you will lend cumin a hand in the next month by participating in the nominating process!

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 for current IBPC judge Duncan Mercredi