Our Forum’s Envoys to the July IBPC

Two of the three poems chosen to represent our Poetry Forum in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition come from poets whose work is new to the competition; the third is by a poet whose work has often risen to the top. Our entries are:

• “Nothing to Discuss,” by Guy Kettelhack (GuyBlakeKett), a deft and delicate tracing of the experience of sitting at someone’s deathbed in his signature internal rhymes and enjambments.
• “A Persistent Memory,” by Dean Anthony Granitsas (Allogenes), a beautifully made sonnet that bears frequent rereading (re-singing).
• “For the Unknown Soldier,” by Tom McCorlew (AsIDream), a chilling and wistful journey into the mind of a young man about to embark on his last charge.

Kudos and luck in the judging to all three poets, and many thanks to those of you who took the time to nominate these from among the hundreds of poems posted to our 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