To mark her 100th year, Joyce Johnson's book, Lifetime Memories in Verse, has been released by Publisher Gary Drury and is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Although the contest filled quickly, I spent many hours pouring over each entry and I must say that nearly all of the poems in third place could have been contenders for the top two spots.
First-place winners will have five points added to any they earned in the previous contest. Second place earns four points. Third and fourth place earn three points and fifth place receives two points.
The poems in fifth place would have ranked higher if they had not exceeded the fourteen-line limit. I will continue to post updates on such problems in blogs and on the contest posting. Now I will go to the chart I created after the My Place Contest and add points accordingly. If the contests continue to fill this quickly, there could be a few more before the grand prize is awarded. In case of a tie for the grand prize, we'll have an unofficial runoff (in poetry) for the top contenders.
I'm asking those in first and second place to send me Soup Mails, telling me where I can send their prizes if I don't already have their addresses. That would be Sandra Haight and Michelle Faulkner.
Thanks so much for submitting wonderful poems filled with hope!
