WINNERS OF THE POETRY CONTEST

Dear Poets and Friends of Poetry,

Here are the names of the award winners. The winners were chosen in a blind reading by a much published poet in consultation with a second much published poet. I was not involved at all in the final choices.

There are 3 Fifty Dollar awards:

Samantha Le, To Myself at Nine
Christine Richardson, Reckoning the Foxtail…
Mark Heinlein, When We Were Young

There are 6 Twenty-Five Dollar awards:

Judy Darling, Long’s Ridge
William A. Emerson, Pickers Wanted
Katie Carter, Signs of Winter
Paul Highby, If a Crow Does That
Nancy Meyer, Seasonal Adjustment
Henry Lafnear, Mission College Carpool

The award recipients and their friends are invited to ceremony put on by The Arts Council Silicon Valley held on

AND SO WE END…THIRTY POEMS FOR 30 DAYS…

  …And so we end
     this month-on trend
     of a poem-a-day
     for thirty days…

BUT CHECK BACK SOON…

To hear who the winners are of the Poetry About Santa Clara County Contest

And in the meantime welcome the First of May.
Hear what Henry Vaughan has to say
in this excerpt from his poem,

THE WATERFALL

With what deep murmurs through time’s silent stealth
Doth thy transparent, cool, and watery wealth
                Here flowing fall,
                And chide, and call,
As if his liquid, loose retinue stayed
Lingering,and were of this steep place afraid,
                The common pass
                Where, clear as glass,
                All must descend—
                Not to an end,
But quickened by this deep and rocky grave
Rise to a longer course more bright and brave…