Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2005
Congratulations to the winners of the 2005 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse!
Encouragement Awards
Ned Condini, "You Haunt Me Still", "Dreaded Will-of-the-Wisp"
Katherine Edgren, "Cass Lake", "August"
John Flanagan, "Call of the Wild"
Joyce Meyers, "Early Robins"
Very Highly Commended
Ned Condini, "Endgame", "Requiem"
Highly Commended
John Bird, "A Sunburnt Country"
Eileen Favorite, "Embarkation", "Souvenirs"
K. Fernelius Larsen, "The Contrariety of Love"
Meena Menon, "Indian Love Song"
Jennifer Millsap, "Here"
Laurie B. Moore, "Cemetery Walk"
Marie-Suzanne Niedzielska, "Blue Aria", "Owed to Snow"
Mike Ruskovich, "Book and Body"
Mark Stuart Woodcock, "Papillon"
Commended
Kaye Abikhaled, "Russia"
M. Lee Alexander, "Winter Beach", "The Grocery Game"
Beth Linda Block, "8 haikus"
Graal Braun, "Artist Kinkade Encounters Reality"
Rochelle Brener, "Poetry"
Graham Burchell, "Sub-division"
Marianna Busching, "Shiny Things"
Stephanie Cage, "Background Music", "The Space Between"
Melissa Cannon, "The Mimic at 3 a.m."
Angie Chuang, "Directions to Phan Thiet"
Ginny Lowe Connors, "Playing By the Rules"
Jacqueline Cooke, "Early Morning, Salamanca Place, Hobart"
Yolanda Coulaz, "Why?"
Toni Bennett Easterson, "The Visit"
Barclay Franklin, "John's Song"
Mitchell Geller, "Villanelle for an English Professor"
Ann Gilbreth, "Wishing"
Judith Goldhaber, "The Afterlife", "Addiction"
Sari Grandstaff, "Winter Primeval", "Buku", "Haiku a.m."
Betty Lou Hebert, "The Dusky Ouzel Sings"
David Hedges, "Dialogue at Sawn"
Robert Hermann, "Choice"
Christiane Jacox, "Oracle", "We Two Who Are Sisters", "The Argument"
Syd Knowlton, "Transfiguration"
Timothy W. Lamprell, "The Silence of Dawn"
Jayme S. Lemke, "My Empty Lobby", "Willing"
Dyna "Raven" McDaniel, "A Breath Once Taken"
Joyce Meyers, "The Room", "among the ruins"
Laurie B. Moore, "Across the Long Bridge"
Catherine Moran, "Crisis Hot-Line", "Forgetting Me"
Kenn Naegele, "The Music of Friendship"
Patricia K. Nolan, "Endurance"
Delroy Oberg, "Novel-ty"
Sally Odgers, "In My Silence Now I Go", "Roses", "Julia"
David Pratt, "The Gift That's Unexpected", "Moments", "When Seasons Change", "Every Night I Go Back to Skopelos"
Judy Ray, "On Swimming to the Reef"
Brooks Robards, "The Other Side", "Look Up", "Winter for Breakfast", "The New Season", "Vineyard Fog", "Cat's Cradle"
Victoria Schwab, "Inversion"
Greg Schwartz, "If Lions Were Smart", "Third Grade Romance"
Lucille Gang Shulklapper, "Last Move"
Joan I. Siegel, "No Rain the Forecast"
John Michael Simon, "The Hitchhiker", "The Old Composer"
John Eric Smith, "Climb", "River", "Frontier Defenders", "Yemassee"
Joseph A. Soldati, "If There Are Words For Love"
Ann Sullivan, "The Rose"
Laurence W. Thomas, "Nursery Rhyme", "Monday Morning"
Helen Tzagoloff, "Ordinary Troubles"
John Velasco, "Simply"
Many of these winning entries are published in Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry, available from Lulu.
Contest Judge
John Reid
John Howard Reid, founder of the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest and the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, won first prizes and other awards in prestigious literary events. A former journalist and magazine editor, he published several historical novels, a collection of poetry, a guide to winning literary contests, and over fifty books of film criticism and movie history. See his work at Lulu. He lived in Wyong, Australia, and passed away in 2018.
