I was grateful to learn  I earned Honorable Mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest:

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2015

Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!

• Donald Adamson, Proper and Enduring, Poetry
• David Hill, After Wounded Knee, Poetry
• Justin Hunt, My Mother, My Father, Poetry
• Laura M. Kaminski, Hush, Poetry
• Ray Keifetz, Night Farming in Bosnia, Poetry
• Maribeth Pittman, Two Women in an Unbalanced Street Scene, Poetry
• Shoshauna Shy, Keepsake, Poetry
• Eileen P. Kennedy, Migration, Traditional Verse
• Allegra Keys, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Traditional Verse
• Kathleen McClung, Lighter Than Her Lace: A Crown of Borrowed Self-Portraits, Traditional Verse
• Katy McKinney, Worm Bin Sestina, Traditional Verse
• Stuart J. Silverman, Letter to Her Father, Traditional Verse
• Jeff Walt, Serial Killer Sonnet, Traditional Verse

Judge Ellaraine Lockie comments on the winning entries

Traditional poetry forms have had a blockbuster year in the 2015 Contest. The winners’ list includes: two sonnet crowns, two sestinas, a villanelle, a palindrome, a pantoum, an elegy, three ekphrastic poems, and two poems with such distinct and unique construction as to be classified nonce forms. Read our press release announcing the winners.

You can read my winning poem, and the other winners as well at:

https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/contest-archives/tom-howard-margaret-reid-poetry-contest-2015