Poetry
Judge: Dr. Laurie O'Brien
- Barbara Ras - Bite Every Sorrow - WINNER
- Martin Lammon - News From Where I Live
- Thelma R. Hall - Sunlight and Stones
- Jo Byce - Contemplations of the Spirit
- Glenda Allen Chatham - Timepieces
- Doyle Spence - Poems My Father Never Read
- Margo Candelario - Take Me to the Water
- Michael Bishop - Time Pieces
- Memye Curtis Tucker - The Watchers
- Memye Curtis Tucker - Stormline
- Memye Curtis Tucker - Admit One
- Linda Lee Harper - The Wide Load
- Janet Wondra - Long Division
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
““Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day, or Warren’s blackin’ or Rowland’s oil, or some o’ them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called “silent poetry,” and poetry “speaking painting.” The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)