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The deadline for the next PoetrySoup sponsored contest is Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 Contest Details

PoetrySoup Contest Winners
March, 2008 Contest Winners
  1. Ernesto Santiago: Spring Bud ($75 and Certificate)
  2. Ryan Caidic: Senility ($60 and Certificate)
  3. Mark Ploskunak: It is written ($45 and Certificate)
  4. Deborah Simpson: The Empty Basket ($30 and Certificate)
  5. Rebecca Brown: Find My Place ($30 and Certificate)
  6. Jan Thie: The servant ($30 and Certificate)
  7. Caryl Ramsdale: THE CRESTFALLEN "International Finalist" (7th. Place) ($30 and Certificate)
  8. Alyssa Finley: Braille Screams (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Lakisha Williams: Heart Of A Poet (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. John Heck: Last Wish (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. clarence mcmullin: comme il faut (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Mika Herold: How to entice a rose (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Michael Grugan: Believe Not Tomorrow (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Karen O'Leary: Challenged (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Marina Apena: Fools and Mules (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  16. Sue Mason: River Prayer (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  17. Glen Enloe: Frail Paper Etched With Words (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  18. Tracy Decker: Requiem (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  19. Elaine Ho: Love of a Rose (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  20. Sean Cosslett Moore: sigh (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  21. Crystal Bourret: Silken Midnight Lullaby (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  22. farah chamma: Twilight (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  23. Ovidiu Bocsa: Philokalia (Love of Beauty) (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  24. Rickie Elpusan: liquid little stones (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
November, 2007 Contest Winners
  1. John Heck: Purple Heart ($75 and Certificate)
  2. Mohammad Yamin: The Frost Bitten Leaf ($60 and Certificate)
  3. EMMANUEL SAMSON: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN ($45 and Certificate)
  4. Claire de la Grange: Heartthrob ($30 and Certificate)
  5. Edward Babatunde: Beauty ($30 and Certificate)
  6. H MANTEL: THE PEN! ($30 and Certificate)
  7. Albert Price: BALLADE OF ETERNAL BLISS ($30 and Certificate)
  8. Johnny Sumler: Fervent Feelings (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Michael Wilson: The Dragon and the Rose (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Douglas Lawder: The Couple(s) (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. F Vaz: THE FRUIT OF DESTITUTION (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Effie Blake: Like You (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Nola Perez: At the Beach with Elizabeth (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Miguel Mendoza: A KISS ON VJ DAY (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Elaine George: In the Autumn of my Life (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  16. Ernesto Santiago: December Sky (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  17. Frankie Gaynor-Archer: Busy (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  18. Tianna Anhorn: Activity #28 (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  19. Rebecca Chalker: Strands of Dried Leaves (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
July, 2007 Contest Winners
  1. Brian Strand: ELEVEN;ELEVEN;ELEVEN ($62.50 and Certificate)
  2. Elaine George: Violin ($50 and Certificate)
  3. Anthony Donnelly: Roundhouse Runs ($37.50 and Certificate)
  4. Colin Marschall: Another Night ($25 and Certificate)
  5. Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson: Crescent Waltz ($25 and Certificate)
  6. sylvanwillow leaf: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM ($25 and Certificate)
  7. Mike Samford: My Driftwood Fire ($25 and Certificate)
  8. farah chamma: Beautify (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Tony Bush: Will Shepard (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Tracy Decker: Levitate (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Michele Nold-Godleske: If Wrists Could Speak (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Sue Mason: Afghan Journey (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. M. Teresa Blaylock: Kiss Me in the Shadows (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Shelly Berkeley: Inkwell (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Joseph Granda-Padron: So Broken (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  16. Charles Fuller: The Promise’s Beginning (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  17. Joseph Spence: Amazing Grace (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  18. Ashley Lowery: The Colour Of Spring (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  19. Brooke Wolfe: Avacado, Amoretto (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
March, 2007 Contest Winners
  1. Bernadette Langer: Lest We Forget ($62.50 and Certificate)
  2. Karen O'Leary: Windblown or...More ($50 and Certificate)
  3. Jo -: Our glance ($37.50 and Certificate)
  4. Hillary Ruddell: Dilemma Unwound ($25 and Certificate)
  5. stephie pendleton: Hot Day ($25 and Certificate)
  6. Bella Cardenas: This scar of mine ($25 and Certificate)
  7. Jeff Burris: A Flower ($25 and Certificate)
  8. Margaret Okubo: Oh Daughter Mine (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Lynda Anaya: Portrait Of A Dreamer (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. William Masonis: My Little Bulldog (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Sue Mason: Adult Child of an Alcoholic (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Beverly Briatico: The thaw (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Angie Sharp: Fading (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Earl Graham: Kiss (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Safi Yani: Dual Relation (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
November, 2006 Contest Winners
  1. Michelle Mac Donald: Sea Shanty ($62.50 and Certificate)
  2. Kwan Manasseh: IF ($62.50 and Certificate)
  3. Tammy Armstrong: The Mightiest of Poet’s Still ($50 and Certificate)
  4. Charles Fuller: A Rose In The Heather. ($37.50 and Certificate)
  5. Angie Mae: A Bitter Brew ($25 and Certificate)
  6. William Ward: What constitutes a shoe? ($25 and Certificate)
  7. Gerard Keogh: October Brings No Rest For These ($25 and Certificate)
  8. William Robinson: WHEN I STOP AND PRAY ($25 and Certificate)
  9. Glen Enloe: Flinging Poems Into Wind (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Paula Larson: GRIEF (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Annie Alvarez: Their limbs were not enough (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Trevor McLeod: The Soup (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Taryn Melville: I Am From... (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Beverly Briatico: The Anteroom (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Tracy Decker: Compelled (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  16. Karen O'Leary: Liberation (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
July, 2006 Contest Winners
  1. Johnette Loefgren: Where Poetry Lives ($62.50 and Certificate)
  2. Keith Bickerstaffe: Petal ($50 and Certificate)
  3. Erin Moss: Date Night (and the day after) ($37.50 and Certificate)
  4. Larry Smith: TO SHE: DRAWN TO THY BEAUTY {quatrain} ($25 and Certificate)
  5. Jill Martin: Debts Paid ($25 and Certificate)
  6. Mary Nagy: Our Bed ($25 and Certificate)
  7. Merv Webster: HARD HAT HEROES ($25 and Certificate)
  8. William Ward: smitten with raincoats (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Bob shank: The Ole' Ballfield (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Tony Bush: Dodge City (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Ram Mehta: From illusion to reality (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi: The Lost Ones (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
March, 2006 Contest Winners
  1. Victor Kwansa: The Black Boomerang ($62.50 and Certificate)
  2. Tatyana Carney: Brush Stroke to Uniqueness ($50 and Certificate)
  3. JeanMarie Marchese: disappear ($37.50 and Certificate)
  4. William Ward: Autumnal Grace ($25 and Certificate)
  5. Alayande Stephen: Beyond Beauty ($25 and Certificate)
  6. Anthony Slauson: Ice Forest ($25 and Certificate)
  7. Bridget Aubrey: Where my flowers are ($25 and Certificate)
  8. Nicholas Hazelwood: Reviving The Senses Through Punctured Eardrums (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Michele Nold: Heaven's Branches (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Joe Incatasciato: A Word (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Joseph Giordano: Sweet Lady (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Deborah Simpson: A Lonely Traveler (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Mary Nagy:The Dandelions Were Listening (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Tammy Armstrong: A Mathematical Uncertainty (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Johnette Loefgren: Skin Deep (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
November, 2005 Contest Winners
  1. Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson: Like a Rock ($125 and Certificate)
  2. Michele Nold: Cycle ($100 and Certificate)
  3. Tony Bush: Rust Sleeps ($75 and Certificate)
  4. Jim Fish: Hard Times ($50 and Certificate)
  5. John Allen: Pith and Tar ($50 and Certificate)
  6. Rickie Elpusan: knee deep in N'awlins ($50 and Certificate)
  7. Paula Larson: BAST ($50 and Certificate)
  8. Shannon Hilson: Breathe (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  9. Nykki Houtkooper: Acceptance (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  10. Tatyana Carney: Violinist Composition (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  11. Paul Sylvester: T.V. (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  12. Laura Meese: The Elimination Method (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  13. Melissa Schwartz: In Forbearance (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  14. Greta Robinson: Shine (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  15. Merv Webster: BERT’S WILL (Honorable Mention/Certificate)
  16. Zach Berne: Pine, Sage, Dust, and Juniper (Honorable Mention/Certificate)

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