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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2010
Congratulations to our 2010 prizewinners Gerardo Mena, Bruce Lack, and Anna Scotti, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.
Their poems were judged the best of the 656 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 judges Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche. Read the press release.
First Prize - $2,000
Gerardo Mena, "So I Was a Coffin"
Second Prize - $1,200
Bruce Lack, "FNG", "Get Some", "Hadji"
Third Prize - $600
Anna Scotti, "This Is How I'll Tell It When I Tell It to Our Children"
Honorable Mentions - $100 each
J. David Cummings, "A-bomb Dome", "Tancho", "I Have Begun the Folding of Cranes"
Charles Elliott, "Col. Gabriel"
Matthew Finlay, "Scarlet Seconds After the Last March"
Starkey Flythe, "Uncle Sam"
Susan Gubernat, "Trojan Women"
Jason Kappel, "Oblivion"
Jennifer Morales, "Cross Reference"
Aliene Pylant, "Refugees"
Johnmichael Simon, "Casualties"
Nishan Swais, "We Like War Better When It's Wearing Lipstick"
Peter Taylor, "Antietam"
Stephen Scott Whitaker, "The Success of Captain Whitaker's Dress", "Until the Piano Can No Longer Hold Its Tune", "Typewriters Go Bang"
Finalists
David Arnett, "On Patrol"
Kareem Carter, "A Thug to Soldier's Story" [poem not available online at this time]
Elizabeth F. Cleary, "After Afghanistan" [poem not available online at this time]
Boman Desai, "The Bright White Sky"
Robin Coste Lewis, "From: / To:", "The Previous Sea", "Beauty's Nest"
Radha Marcum, "News", "Fire Balloons (1944)", "In the Making"
Jenny Overman, "Dead Sea"
Vivian Faith Prescott, "Last Days of War", "Shrapnel", "Rite of Passage"
Emily Ruch, "The Requiem of Flight"
John Spaulding, "War", "Un Soir Après la Guerre", "Lucky Strike Went to War"
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