Poetry 2008

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Table of Contents

General Submitters:

  • First Love Letter, Arlene Tribbia
  • Love Spell, Krikor Der Hohannesian
  • My Grandfather’s Tomatoes, Jed Myers
  • Dagestan, Magomed Ahmedov
  • The Porchsitters, Andy Roberts
  • Ode to People Who Wave, Richard Foss
  • Suburban Compline, Mark Aiello
  • My Mother’s Magazines, Joan Colby
  • Age of Discovery, Discovery of Age, Dorothy Stone
  • La Cite des Enfants, Jesse Lee Kerchival
  • Rue des Batignolles, Jesse Lee Kerchival
  • The Perfumer, Danusha Laméris
  • Paradise, Anita Dugat-Greene
  • What If Jesus Had Spent 40 Days in the Dessert?, Jesse Milner
  • La Florida, Jesse Milner
  • Valencias, John Blair
  • Las Sombras de Sevilla, Gloria Lewyn
  • These Hands, Paul Batista
  • Levitation Gone Wrong, Rupert Fike
  • Day of Rest, Neil Carpathios
  • But What Do You Really Want For Your Birthday You Ask, Mark Belair
  • Wedding Ring, Karina Borowicz
  • I’ve enjoyed being an animal with you, Tom Chandler

Poetry International Competition 2008

  • Year of Lhasa, Diana Woodcock
  • Marrakesh, 1970, Amy Dengler
  • Pandora Speaks, Karen Kovacik
  • The Peaceable Kingdom, Ron De Maris
  • Revelation, Nathalie F. Anderson
  • New York City Sandhog, Wanda Praisner
  • Smith Canyon, Noel Crook
  • Now, Rebecca Foust
  • In Memoriam Steve Irwin, PS Cottier
  • Song for Rana, Charlotte Muse
  • Pigeon Lady, Teresa Scollon
  • How My Mother Loves Flowers, Teresa Scollon
  • No Nest, Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
  • Nymph, Dun, and Spinner, Dolores Hayden
  • Nails, Carol Stevens Kner
  • Ex-Lead Singer Day, Allison Joseph
  • My Father’s Kites, Allison Joseph
  • After my mother’s miscarriage, Alexis White
  • Cookies, Sherman Pearl
  • Text Message, David Essex
  • Exit Julian, Pursued by Bear, Andrew Sofer
  • Lament of the Silkworm, Lisa Meunier
  • The Altar, Elizabeth Hoover
  • Language Arts, Anne Johnson Mullin
  • Shiri’s Piano, Gunila Theander Kester
  • Winter Milk, Jamie Morewood Anderson (GRAND PRIZE WINNER)

General Contributors, con’t:

  • About Forgetting, David Tucker
  • Canoeing the Buffalo River, David Tucker
  • Story Problem Near Vancouver Island, Jeff Gundy
  • Conversation with the Sea, Melissa Peters
  • Ode to a Drained Pond, Pepper Trail
  • Chattanooga Freight, Frank Jamison
  • Trees in Flame, Maria Terrone
  • Seeds of the Giant Sequoia, Rebecca Foust
  • Bristlecone, Malcolm Alexander
  • Toll, Malcolm Alexander
  • Alchemy of the Maple, Joshua Coben
  • Earthworm, Peggie Gallagher
  • Fly, Julia McCarthy
  • The Professional, Richard Jackson
  • Cocorete Nanee, Zorida Mohammed
  • Managers for Gentlemen, Mary F. C. Pratt
  • Working with the Developmentally Disabled, Heather Abner
  • Barney Rubble Saves Our Lives, Collin Kelley
  • On My 13th Birthday My Mother Convinces My Father To Sit Down with Me and Discuss the Facts of Life, Jeff Worley
  • How to Write a Sad Poem, Jeff Worley
  • Before She Was Famous, Anna Evens
  • Elegy for an Elephant Graveyard, Lee Rossi
  • Meat, Eleanore Lee
  • M expendable Blood, Robert Cooperman
  • The Chef, Margaret A. Robinson
  • Jello Days, Richard Schiffman
  • Balls, Richard Schiffman
  • A coma, Anne Ward Jamieson
  • Crossword Puzzles, Anne Ward Jamieson
  • Vocation, Brieghan Gardner
  • Note Found Near His Cage, Marjorie Mir