InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2009 Archive

InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2009


October FIRST PLACE: “Rain” by Anna Yin SECOND PLACE: “Forbidden Lullaby” by Walter Schwim THIRD PLACE: “Without Salt” by Mandy Pannett HONORABLE MENTION September FIRST PLACE: “We Burned Incense” by Judy Swann SECOND PLACE: “The Secret Life” by Laurie Byro THIRD PLACE: (tie) “On Waking I Think of Winter” by Sarah Sloat, (Untitled) by Matt Moseman, and “Illegal #2” by Sergio Ortiz HONORABLE MENTIONS August FIRST PLACE: “Smoke and Mirrors” by Antonia Clark SECOND PLACE: (tie) “Doris Gray Pictures Regret” by Jennifer Bennett, “Migrations” by Billy Howell-Sinnard, and “Toad Festival” by Connie DeDona HIGHLY COMMENDED POEMS HONORABLE MENTIONS July FIRST PLACE: “The Day the Egrets Came Calling” by Christopher T. George SECOND PLACE: (tie) “Nothing To Discuss” by Guy Kettelhack and “I am Dying Afghanistan” by Bernard Henrie HONORABLE MENTIONS June FIRST PLACE: “you think you’ve seen everything” by Justin Hyde SECOND PLACE: “Castle Hawk” by Brian Edwards THIRD PLACE: “5 o’clock” by Divina HONORABLE MENTIONS May FIRST PLACE: “Mariposa” by Tim Blighton SECOND PLACE: “Evidence Hanging on a Rusty Nail” by Brian J. Mackay THIRD PLACE: “The Marsh at Dusk” by Steve Meador HONORABLE MENTIONS April FIRST PLACE: “Czamy Polewka (Black Soup)” by Emily Brink SECOND PLACE: “The Day the Caterpillars Came” by Steve Meador THIRD PLACE: “A Rush of Clouds” by Laurel K. Dodge HONORABLE MENTIONS March FIRST PLACE: “I, Raptor” by Brenda Levy Tate SECOND PLACE: “deliquesce” by Lynze THIRD PLACE: “Double Vision” by Susan B. McDonough February FIRST PLACE: “Mondegreen” by Ray Sweatman SECOND PLACE: “Virginia Sings Back To the Stones In Her Pockets” by Laurie Byro THIRD PLACE: “—” by Eric Rhohenstein January FIRST PLACE: “New Neighbors” by Eric Rhohenstein SECOND PLACE: “First Frost” by Christopher T. George THIRD PLACE: “Dinner With the Ghost of Rilke” by Laurie Byro HONORABLE MENTIONS