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WPA Contest Winners (2008)

Congratulations to our 2008 poetry contest winners!


2008

William Stafford, Free Verse (???, Judge)

  • 1st On Finding a Snake in the Pasture, Ann Gerike
  • 2nd Athena at Starbucks, John Davis
  • 3rd The Last Speaker of Esselen, David Gravender

Francine Porad, Haiku (Margaret Chula, Judge) Judge's comments

  • 1st first robin, Earl Keener
  • 2nd summer heat, Claudia Coutu Radmore
  • 3rd funeral march, Ernest J. Berry
  • HM closed louvers, Scott Mason
  • HM shrinking snowman, Peggy Heinrich
  • HM crows on phone lines, Scott Mason

Bart Baxter Poetry Performance Award

  • 1st Ryler Dustin ($500)
  • 2nd Daemond Arrindell ($300)
  • 3rd Karen Finneyfrock ($100)

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