Contest Winners:
See below for previous years' listings
Contest Winners' Poems (Click here for 2005 Winners List)
2006 Winner's Poem Allan Peterson, Antipyretic
Thomas Lux, Judge.
2005 Winner's Poem Jamie Ross, Elope
Cornelius Eady, Judge.
2004 Winner's Poem Judson Evans, Window Washer.
Molly Peacock, Judge.
2003 Winner's Poem Stacie Cassarino, Half June.
David St. John, Judge.
2002 Winner's Poem Melanie Almeder, Poem for the Man Who
Does Not Answer the Phone. Kelly Cherry, Judge.
2001 Winner's Poem Paul Hostovsky, The Perfection.
Mary Oliver, Judge
2000 to 1987 Winners' Poems (scroll down to see all poems from both the National and Central New York Contests)
Contest Winners
Prize Winners for 2007 , Carolyn Forché, Judge
FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)
Sally Albisio from Port Angeles, WA "Beggar’s Purse"
Winning poem published on web site one year after Awards Edition is issued.
SECOND PRIZE: ($250)
Casey Charles from Missoula, MT "Stay"
THIRD PRIZE: ($100)
Steven Lautermilch from Kill Devil Hills NC
"Confession and Penance, For Paul Cezanne"
FOURTH PRIZE: ($50)
J.T. Ledbetter from Thousand Oaks, CA "Child of the Palouse"
HONORABLE MENTIONS (Subscriptions for 2008)
Susan Varon, Taos, NM, "Chart of the Lunar Phases"
Raphael Kosek, Hopewell Junction, NY,
"Black Place Number 2, 1944"
Sally Albiso, Port Angeles, WA, "Synaesthete"
Mary Legato Brownell, Jenkintown, PA
"Light that Morning had the Capacity to Change the World"
Cathryn Cofell, Appleton , WI "Contraction"
OTHER SPECIAL MERIT POETS
Maureen Alsop, Palm Springs, CA, "Sky Hour Lumiere, Circa 1936"
Mary Legato Brownell, Jenkintown, PA
"I Would Have Seen His Jacket Buttoned to the Neck"
Casey Charles, Missoula, MT, "The M"
Paul R. Davis, Camillus, NY (2 poems)
"On Listening (to) Handel’s Messiah" and "Razor Blade Life
on the Mountaintop as Seen from the Lighthouse on the Rocky Shore"
Mark Evan Johnston, New Haven, CT, "Very Fond of Sweets"
Nicholas Lomonossoff, Ontario, Canada,
"Japan (after Kenzaburo Oe)"
Joanne Lowery, Kalamazoo,MI, "Costumes"
Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY,
"Grace Sterling: Redwing, 1988"
Rande Mack, Manhattan, MT,
"It is enough to call ourselves dancers"
Beth Martinelli, Chicago, IL, "Radius"
M.B. McLatchey, Winter Park, FL (3 poems)
"Museum;" "The Rescue," and "The Retrieval,"
Eileen Moeller, Philadelphia, PA, "For Too Long I’ve Carried You"
Bonnie Morris, Washington, DC, (2 poems)
"Chincoteague" and "Leah, After the Cross Burning"
Susan Norris, Andover, NH, "Finding You"
Joan Weiner, Asheville, NC, "Murderer"
All Special Merit poems went to Ms. Forché for judging.
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Prize Winners for 2006, Thomas Lux, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
Allan Peterson from Gulf Breeze FL "Antipyretic"
2nd Prize:($250) Greg Larson from Richfield, MN "Vertebrae"
3rd Prize: ($100) Lynn Levin from Southhampton, PA "To Hair"
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Prize Winners for 2005, Cornelius Eady, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
Jamie Ross from Carson, NM, "Elope"
2nd Prize: ($250) Paul Aviles from Syracuse, NY, "Mizu- The Word for Water"
3rd Prize ($100) Therése Halscheid from Haddonfield, NJ, "Trash Day"
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Prize Winners for 2004, Molly Peacock, Judge
FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
Judson Evans, from Holbrook, MA: "Window Washer"
Click on Name of poem to see winning poem published on web site one year after Awards Edition is issued.
SECOND PRIZE: ($250)
Karen Mandell, from Needham, MA: "Portrait of a Lady, 1801-1834
THIRD PRIZE: ($100)
Mimi Walter Hinman, from San Jose, CA: "Mulberry Ghazal"
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Prize Winners for 2003. David St. John, Judge
FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
Stacie Cassarino from South Windsor, CT , "Half June"
2nd PRIZE ($250) Kathryn E. Clement
"Nighthawks (Edward Hopper, 1941)"
3rd PRIZE ($100) R. G. Evans
"To The Flayed Goat ...."
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Prize Winners for 2002: Kelly Cherry, Judge
FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award. $1,000
Melanie Almeder:
"Poem for the Man Who Does Not Answer the Phone
(click on poem's name to view poem)
2nd Prize $250 Andrea Potos: "Emily Dying"
3rd Prize: $100 Autumn McClintock: "On Harris Hill"
4th Prize: $50 Melanie Drane: "Buddy Breathing"
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PRIZE WINNERS FOR 2001, Mary Oliver Judge
The Perfection
First Prize Mureil Craft Bailey
Award: $1,000
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by Paul Hostovsky
Paul Hostovsky lives in Millis, MA where h works as an interpreter for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf. His poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and The Lyric, among others, and his first book, Sonnets from South Mountain, came out in 2001.
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Invitation to Rockaway
2nd Prize: $200
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by Jennifer Keller (New York, NY) |
What the Mother Skunk Told Her Babies
3rd Prize: $100
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by Melissa Montimurro
(Layton, NJ) |
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Tornado
Year 2000 First Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Award
Prize: $1000
Judge: Stephen Dobyns
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by Elaine Christensen
Elaine Christensen was born in Frankfurt , Germany. An army-brat, she grew up in Japan, across the United States, and back in Germany, as a teenager, where she attended a girl’s German school for three years... |
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Hereafter
2nd Prize: $250
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by Janell Moon (Emeryville, CA) |
RPM 3rd Prize: $100
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by Jarret Keene (Tallahassee, FL) |
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Reading the River
(scroll down)
1999 Muriel Craft Bailey Award
1st Prize: $1000
Judge: Ellen Bryant Voight
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by Charles Atkinson
Charles Atkinson was born and raised in New England, graduated cum laude from Amherst College, served with the Peace Corps in Manila, Republic of the Philippines. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he currently teaches writing of various sorts. |
Blue Moons Over Miami
2nd Prize: $200
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by Carolyne Wright |
Rope 3rd Prize: $100
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by Kathleen McKinley Harris |
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| Judas Tree (scroll down)
1998 Muriel Craft Bailey Award Prize: $500
Judge: Andrew Hudgins
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by Patric Pepper |
Millie Cole's Last Fall...
2nd Prize: $200
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by Linda Taylor |
He With Herbs/She With Walnuts 3rd Prize: $100
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by Sandra Bishop-Ebner |
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1997 Muriel Craft Bailey Award Prize: $500
The Organ of Promise
Judge: Michael Burkard
(scroll down to see poem)
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by L. J. Kay |
Click here to see 1988-1996 Winners List
Click here to see 1987-1996 Winners' poems (Scroll down, poems are in chronological order)
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