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:
““Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers—ask any man among ‘em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he’s an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum—mark that!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)