Here’s the short list of finalists for the Poetry Awards Program. Pared down from the long list, which you can find right here.
It’s been a grueling judging process… There were so many excellent entries for this inaugural year. So a shout out to all of the folks on that long list — you all are serious poets. You’ve got it. Don’t be discouraged.
23 names below…We should know the winner in the next couple of weeks.
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A Marked Man – Joseph Hutchison
Postscript to Home – Marj Hahne
Last Night of Maskmaking — Carolyn Moore
Rim — Steve Lautermilch
In the Temple of the Lost and Found – Mary Morris
Breath Hold Break Point — Heather Derr-Smith
The Laundry Stone — Paul Brancato
The Heaven & the Hangover — Katie Schmid
Where Orpheus Sings — Barbara Knott
Breathing in the Night — Harry Newman
The Sit Down – Alicia Ruskin
Small, Buried things – Debra Marquart
Swimming the Nets – Becky Sakellariou
Paradise Impressions – John Laue
Crescent – Excell Hunter
Desperadoes – Jenifer E. Tener
Dreamer at the Helm – Charles Atkinson
Dear Divorce – Sage Cohen
Selected poems by Deborah Matusko
Nine poems by Norman Wasserman
Selection of poems by Jude Nutter
Cross-Cross Here, Cross-Cross There — Doug Woodsum
Terminally Human – Barry North