Past Winning Entries
Please enjoy the winning entries from our past contests. They are presented here in the order we added them to our website. To view winning entries by contest and year, please see our Contest Archives.
Elegy for Soldier Who Returned Without A Voice From the War in Iraq
By J. Scott Brownlee
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2011
The Revolution Is…, Lying on the Grass in Central Park with Mary Alice Under Military Planes
By Susan Brennan
Finalist, War Poetry Contest 2011
Ash-Shahid, Blank Verse for Army Recruitment Officer: New Orleans, The Armless Child
By Eliot Khalil Wilson
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2011
The Casualties of War, A Soldier’s Making
By Suzanne Roberts
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2011
Coals and Smoke, Titanium and Clay, Boomers
By Robert Hill Long
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2011
Holocaust Documentary or Never Again
By Laurie Lee Didesch
Honorable Mention, War Poetry Contest 2011
Sestina to the Fox Hill Neighborhood Board Regarding My Lack of Compliance
By Marcy Campbell
Finalist, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2013
A Modern Wedding (with Monsters and Fights and Everything)
By Sabine Sur
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2013
The Ballad of Hillary Snow
By Bruce McCandless
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2013
Waiting for the Lions to Stop Texting Their Ex-Girlfriends
By Logan Ellis
Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2013
Julia Warhola Speaks
By Vernon Waring
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Barbas de Oro
By Andrea Theisen
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
I Want to Live in an Edward Hopper Painting
By Tony Peyser
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
The Rough Wooing
By Carol Milkuhn
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Suite in Mudtime
By Sydney Lea
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Obituary for a Bay Tree
By Ellen Ficarra
Most Highly Commended, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
Raising My Arm
By Janet Ireland Trail
Fourth Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
A Trilogy of Love and Loss
By Carmine Dandrea
Third Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
the death of memory
By Vernon Waring
Second Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
For My Ancestors
By Myron L. Stokes
First Prize, Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2012
To Steal, Or Not to Steal
By Robert B. Robeson
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2012
A Mother’s Musings
By Nirupama Kotru
Most Highly Commended, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2012
