Contest – Page 5 – Poetry Society of Michigan

Window / Patricia Barnes

Published on November 1, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Patricia Barnes of Wyandotte, Michigan is the winner of the Chancelor’s Prize in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s annual poetry contest.

Stones / Myra Ward Barra

Published on February 6, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Another prize winning poem from The Poetry Society of Michigan Annual Poetry Contest, this one from the “Love” category.

Children of Survivors / Joy Gaines-Friedler

Published on December 20, 2019December 21, 2019 by Editorial Staff

From the fall issue of Peninsula Poets, one of the prize winning poems in the “Family” category of The Poetry Society of Michigan’s annual poetry contest.

Disposable / Sarah E. Morin

Published on November 18, 2019 by Editorial Staff

This poem, appropriate for this time of year, is the winner of the “Chancelor’s Prize” in The Poetry Society of Michigan Annual Poetry Contest.

Dennis Bar Shoes

Published on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Southfield, Michigan poet, Sophia Rivkin, won first prize in the “Family” category in our annual contest with this poem. The fall contest issue of Peninsula Poets is now available.

Eulogy for My Brother

Published on November 5, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Eulogistic poems don’t have to mournful, somber or depressing. This poem took first place in the category, Loss, in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s annual contest. Patricia Barnes is from Wyandotte, Michigan.

To Bloom / Karin Hoffecker

Published on November 2, 2019November 3, 2019 by Editorial Staff

The winning poem in the Nature category of The Poetry Society of Michigan’s 2019 contest is Too Bloom by Michigan poet, Karin Hoffecker. The fall issue of Peninsula Poets in which this year’s winners appear is now available for purchase.

Decisions / Diana Dinverno

Published on October 31, 2019November 3, 2019 by Editorial Staff

The winner of the Margo LaGattuta Award in this year’s Poetry Society of Michigan Poetry Contest is Diana Dinverno for Decisions.

night soon / David Fitch

Published on October 29, 2019 by Editorial Staff

This year’s winning poem in the category “Evening” from the annual contest issue of Peninsula Poets, the journal of the Poetry Society of Michigan.

Mushrooms and Agates / Ellen Lord

Published on October 23, 2019November 3, 2019 by Editorial Staff

The fall issue of Peninsula Poets is the contest edition. The winner of this year’s Founder’s Prize is a Haibun* from Charlevoix poet, Ellen Lord..

*Haibun, literally, haikai writings, is a prosimetric literary form combining prose and haiku. It first appeared in the 17th century and was popularized by the haiku master poet, Matsuo Bashō.