InterBoard Poetry Competition
All about the InterBoard Poetry Competition (now known as the InterBoard Poetry Community), a monthly series of competitions among the most active poetry workshops and discussion forums on the Net (including the About Poetry Forum): the rules, judges, and archives of winning poems and poems entered representing our Forum.
About the IBPC
Basic information about the InterBoard Poetry Community—the history and rules of the competition.
Archive of Winning Poems
Poems selected by the judge in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards and honorable mentions.
Archive of About Poetry Forum Entries
A collection of all the poems entered in the monthly IBPC representing our About Poetry Forum.
Requirements for IBPC Nominees
The permissions and information to be supplied by poets whose poems are nominated for entry in the IBPC representing the About Poetry Forum.
InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum - 2011 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2011.
InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2010 Archive
Archive of the winning poems in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2010, posted at About Poetry.
Honorable Mention, February 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“House of Ash” by Mignon Ledgard of conjunction
Third Place Winner, February 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“The Necromancer” by Milner Place of PoetryCircle
Second Place Winner, February 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Green Holly Man New Year, 2011” by Laurie Byro of Desert Moon Review
First Place Winner, February 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Exile” by Lois P. Jones of PenShells
About Poetry Forum Entries, April 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
Poems selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in the April 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition.
Honorable Mention, March 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Feed the Snake” by Michael Creighton of The Waters
Third Place Winner, March 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Middle-Aged Man Photographed In Zion” by Bernard Henrie of The Writer’s Block
Second Place Winner, March 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Two Doves” by Laurie Byro of Desert Moon Review
First Place Winner, March 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Best After Frost” by Mandy Pannett of The Write Idea
About Poetry Forum Entries, May 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
Poems selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in the May 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition.
Third Place Winner, April 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Advice to Self in Guise of Other” by Fred Longworth of Wild Poetry Forum
Second Place Winner, April 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Papa” by Yolanda Calderon-Horn of The Writer’s Block
First Place Winner, April 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Motown Layover” by E. Russell Smith of The Write Idea
Third Place Winner, May 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“End of the Road” by David Durham of PenShells
Second Place Winner, May 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“brief” by Dale McClain of Wild Poetry Forum
First Place Winner, May 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
“Ophelia Speaks” by Laurie Byro of Desert Moon Review
About Poetry Forum Entries, July 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition
Poems selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in the July 2011 InterBoard Poetry Competition.