One of ours awarded honorable mention in the June IBPC

Congratulations are due to Forum poet Bernard Hamel, whose first poem entered in the InterBoard Poetry Competition was selected by judge Duncan Mercredi for honorable mention in June. The other winners Mercredi chose were

• In first place, “you think you’ve seen everything,” by Justin Hyde, a barroom scene “with a surprise ‘twist’ at the end.”
• In second place, “Castle Hawk” by Brian Edwards, a memoir of “two brothers in tee-shirts, / waiting for something to happen.”
• In third place, “5 o’clock” by Divina, a word painting that illustrates Mercredi’s belief that “poets are deep down, frustrated visual artists.”

Mercredi also made honorable mention, without comment, of two poems in addition to Bernard Hamel’s “The Big Easy,” which represented our own About Poetry Forum last month.

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