This poem by Kristen Brace won the Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Prize in PSM’s annual poetry contest. It appeard in the fall issue of Peninsula Poets.
Poem in Which the Poem Works Very Hard to Identify Itself / Kristen Brace
Category: Contest
Midland / Nancy Cook
Nancy Cook’s poem “Midland“, a response to the 2020 flood that made national headlines, was the winner of the Founder’s Prize in the 2020 poetry contest of the Poetry Society of Michigan.
Window / Patricia Barnes
Patricia Barnes of Wyandotte, Michigan is the winner of the Chancelor’s Prize in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s annual poetry contest.
Rust Belt / Randy K. Schwartz
Winner of the Margo LaGattuta Memorial Award in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s annual poetry contest is Randy K. Schwartz of Ann Arbor, Michigan. This poem and all of the other contest winners are featured in the latest edition of Peninsula Poets.
Farm Scene at Dusk / Sarah E. Moran
An honorable mention from of 2019 Poetry Contest in the Evening category.
Poetry Society of Michigan 2020 Contest Winners
Category 1: Margo LaGatutta Memorial Award
Judge: Daniel Edward Moore
1st Rust Belt Randy K. Schwartz, Ann Arbor, MI
2nd All Night the Rain Kristin Brace, Ada, MI
3rd November Jack D. Ferguson, Auburn Hills, MI
HM Rock, Paper, Scissors Ellen Lord, Charlevoix, MI
Category 2: Chancellor’s Prize
Judge: Laurence W. Thomas
1st Window Patricia Barnes, Wyandotte, MI
2nd Good Fencing Lorraine Jeffery, Orem, UT
3rd The Poet Goes Prospecting Randy K. Schwartz, Ann Arbor, MI
HM The Staunch Listener Inge Logenburg Kyler, Eaton Rapids, MI
Category 3: Founder’s Prize
Judge: Dennis Hinrichsen
1st Midland Nancy Cook, St. Paul, MN
2nd Water, Water Everywhere… Patricia Barnes, Wyandotte, MI
3rd Jack Pine Savage Ellen Lord, Charlevoix, MI
HM October, Southeast Michigan Dawn McDuffie, Detroit, MI
Category 4: Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Poem
Judge: Elizabeth Kerlikowske
1st Poem in Which the Poem Works Very Hard… Kristin Brace, Ada, MI
2nd I Explain to My Great Grandpa Lorraine Jeffery, Orem, UT
3rd Sounding the Alarm Lynne Fernandez, Farmington Hills, MI
HM Transformation Marilyn Churchill, Ann Arbor, MI
Category 5: George Dila Memorial Prose Poem
Judge: Phillip Sterling
1st A Man and His Game David James, Linden, MI
2nd pang Diana Hart, Kalamazoo, MI
3rd Dear Therapist, Patricia Barnes, Wyandotte, MI
HM Velvet Ear Jill Doster Marcusse, Grand Rapids, MI
Category 6: Nature
Judge: Jerrold Narland
1st Lucky 13 Terry Jude Miller, Richmond, TX
2nd Backyard Nature Sue Yurick, Rockford, MI
3rd Winter Snowfall Cynthia Weber Nankee, Canton, MI
HM Lost Mountain Lori Goff, Walled Lake, MI
Category 7: Love
Judge: Diane DeCillis
1st Alien Lover Dawn McDuffie, Detroit, MI
2nd Redolent Diana Dinverno, Troy, MI
3rd Autumn Garden Jack D. Ferguson, Auburn Hills, MI
HM Falling Christian Belz, Berkley, MI
Category 8: Pandemic
Judge: Terry Jude Miller
1st Counting Marie Davids, Ferndale, MI
2nd Maybe Eric Greene, Royal Oak, MI
3rd Languor Garrett Stack, Rockford, MI
HM Monthursday, Frisunday, April? Carla Dodd, Waterford, MI
When She Weeps / Nancy Cook
One of Chancellor’s prize winning poems from the fall contest issue of Peninsula Poets by Nancy Cook of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Stones / Myra Ward Barra
Another prize winning poem from The Poetry Society of Michigan Annual Poetry Contest, this one from the “Love” category.
Evening on the Lake / Polly Opsahl
A prize winning poem in the category “Evening” from the fall issue of Peninsula Poets, the annual contest issue from The Poetry Society of Michigan.
Redbuds in Bloom / Michael Harty
One of the winning poems in the “nature” category from the fall issue of Peninsula Poets.
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