InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2008 Archive

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InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2008


December FIRST PLACE: “Milk Noodle,” by Greta Bolger SECOND PLACE: “Aftermath,” by S. Shademan THIRD PLACE: “Memento Mori,” by Brenda Levy Tate HONORABLE MENTION November FIRST PLACE: “Russian Crucifixes,” by Emily Violet Swithins SECOND PLACE: “My Father’s Family Tree,” by Anna Yin THIRD PLACE: “only waitress at the truck stop who never uses the cash register,” by Justin Hyde HONORABLE MENTION October FIRST PLACE: “Ache,” by Michael Creighton SECOND PLACE: “Convalescence,” by Antonia Clark THIRD PLACE: “Debris,” by Ashura HONORABLE MENTIONS September FIRST PLACE: “St. Louis Jim,” by Henry Shifrin SECOND PLACE: “Saturday,” by S. Thomas Summers THIRD PLACE: “Sheer,” by Tom Watters and “sinkholes and illusions,” by Dorothy D. Mienko HONORABLE MENTIONS August FIRST PLACE: “Tsunami Prelude,” by Brenda Levy Tate SECOND PLACE: “Living in the Body of a Firefly,” by Laurie Byro THIRD PLACE: “Surviving the Ugly,” by Sandy Benitez HONORABLE MENTIONS July FIRST PLACE: “Feast of Disappointments,” by Linda E. Cable SECOND PLACE: “Seventeen, Before the First Time,” by Ange Law THIRD PLACE: “Roots,” by Ken Ashworth HONORABLE MENTIONS June FIRST PLACE: “The Length of Never,” by dublinsteve SECOND PLACE: “A Fall from Grace,” by S. Thomas Summers THIRD PLACE: “Outwitting Your Angels,” by Dave Mehler HONORABLE MENTIONS May FIRST PLACE: “Sunday with Labrador,” by Sarah J. Sloat SECOND PLACE: “What April in New York Is,” by Guy Kettelhack THIRD PLACE: “Via!,” by Allen J. Weber HONORABLE MENTIONS April FIRST PLACE: “A Second Look at Creation,” by Sergio Lima Facchini SECOND PLACE: “Spring Dance,” by Brenda Levy Tate THIRD PLACE: (Tie) “Boy, Winter 2008,” by Mike LaForge & “18—Again,” by Cherryl E. Garner March FIRST PLACE: “Carol for the Brokenhearted,” by Brenda Levy Tate SECOND PLACE: “Bitch,” by Carla Martin-Wood THIRD PLACE: “The Soul’s Active Ingredients,” by Greg McNeill HONORABLE MENTIONS February FIRST PLACE: “Unmarked Grave,” by Lois P. Jones SECOND PLACE: “1980,” by Mitchell Geller THIRD PLACE: “Séance,” by Adam Elgar HONORABLE MENTIONS January FIRST PLACE: “The Bottle Tree,” by Allen M. Weber SECOND PLACE: “Goose Step,” by Lois P. Jones THIRD PLACE: “The Cardiologist Has a Word with Us,” by Yolanda Calderon-Horn HONORABLE MENTIONS