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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2008
Congratulations to our 2008 prizewinners Aliene Pylant, David Brendan Hopes and Jude Nutter, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.
Their poems were judged the best of the 682 entries we received. This year's winners share cash prizes totaling $5,000. Click the names below to read the winning entries and learn about the honorees.
Read comments on the entries from contest judge Jendi Reiter. Read the press release.
First Prize - $2,000
Aliene Pylant, "Unerring Mercy and Pure Grace"
Second Prize - $1,200
David Brendan Hopes, "In the First Days of the War", "Memorial Day"
Third Prize - $600
Jude Nutter, "Via Negativa", "Visiting Uncle Peter's Grave", "Carolina Grasshoppers"
Honorable Mentions - $100 each
M.C. Allan, "In the Silos", "Baghdad Zoo", "Of Canyons and Their Discontents"
Michael Fredson, "My Vietnam Buddy"
Carlos Andrés Gómez, "honest/clean"
Atar Hadari, "Latrun", "Margalit", "First Born"
Elizabeth Hoover, "Liatiko", "In the Fields"
Alice Irvin, "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
Michael Joyce, "On the Deaths of Those We Do Not Know"
Lynne Knight, "The Dread Essay"
Carolyn Moore, "Death Masks from Iwo Jima and Beyond"
Jerry Neren, "Survival Manual for Vietnam"
Flo St. Jean, "Dress Blues"
Curt Snodgrass, "Dangling Y, 1953"
Finalists
EP Allan, "Omega", "The Patriotic Farmer"
H. Lee Barnes, "A Firefight", "Sticking Points"
Glenn Buttkus, "On Patrol"
Carmine Dandrea, "Tarawa"
Paul Handley, "Freedom For"
Kelly Michels, "Nuremberg"
Kevin C. Peters, "Zeno in the Jungle", "Through the Window of a Restaurant in Little Saigon"
Carrie Preston, "Baking Bread One Morning of My Country's Dying"
Jay Rogoff, "Cultural Notes from the Commune"
Anindita Sengupta, "Homecoming"
Avery Slater, "Ekkyklema" [poem not available online at this time]
James Tyner, "Watching the News in Spain", "Asking My Father About a Scar on His Arm Over Dinner", "Some Pages from My Book of Pacifism"
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