Poetry – Page 12 – Poetry Society of Michigan

Ode to a Dutch Pump / Becky Ventura

Published on December 26, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Prompt: Something You Hate

Published on December 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Take something you love, something you hate, something you don’t understand. Put them in the cement mixer of your brain and write a poem. Below you’ll find a response to this promt from Becky Ventura.

Poem in Which the Poem Works Very Hard to Identify Itself / Kristen Brace

Published on December 1, 2020 by Editorial Staff

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.

Opposite the Direction We Are Traveling / Phillip Sterling

Published on November 19, 2020 by Editorial Staff

See Phillip Sterling’s poem, “Opposite the direction we are traveling” in

From his book, Animal Husbandry.

Capture Theory / Joy Gaines-Friedler

Published on November 14, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Midland / Nancy Cook

Published on November 9, 2020 by Editorial Staff

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

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.

Rust Belt / Randy K. Schwartz

Published on October 28, 2020 by Editorial Staff

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.

Travel Advice… / David Jibson

Published on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by Editorial Staff

This poem was featured at the fall meeting of the Poetry Society of Michigan. It was a response to a prompt from Elizabeth Kerlikowske, the current president of the organization. “Write a poem giving someone advice… It could be an extended metaphor. And fun/clever/don’t even think of rhyming.”