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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2011
Congratulations to our 2011 prizewinners Pamela Uschuk, David Cooke, and Michael Estes, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.
Their poems were judged the best of the 575 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
Pamela Uschuk, "Horoscope", "White Phosphorus After Hanukkah", "The Taliban Takes Pakistan"
Second Prize - $1,200
David Cooke, "Meat Puppet"
Third Prize - $600
Michael Estes, "bin laden"
Honorable Mentions - $100 each
Laurie Lee Didesch, "Holocaust Documentary or Never Again"
Bill Duvall, "Dispatchers", "Jock Strapped", "Encomium"
Reuven Goldfarb, "Champions: Hebrews 1, Philistines 0"
Marilyn Krysl, "Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka 2009: The Road"
Bruce Lack, "No Applicable Regulations"
Robert Hill Long, "Coals and Smoke", "Titanium and Clay", "Boomers"
Lynn McGee, "The U.S. Invades Iraq, on American TV"
Nicole, "Almost Never"
Eleanor Paynter, "An Interrogation", "San Miniato"
Nita Ritzke, "Guy You Want"
Suzanne Roberts, "The Casualties of War", "A Soldier's Making"
Eliot Khalil Wilson, "Ash-Shahid", "Blank Verse for Army Recruitment Officer: New Orleans", "The Armless Child"
Finalists
Susan Brennan, "The Revolution Is...", "Lying on the Grass in Central Park with Mary Alice Under Military Planes Headed to Vietnam"
J. Scott Brownlee, "Elegy for Soldier Who Returned Without A Voice From the War in Iraq"
Sasha Pimentel Chacón, "Abacus", "Panic", "The Eyes Open to a Cry"
Danielle Jones-Pruett, "Nostra Donna del Cielo"
Danielle Kessinger, "Price"
Adrie Kusserow, "The Country of Your Garden"
Hugh Martin, "Firework Elegy", "First Snow"
Frank Ortega, "Thinking of Oz"
Robert Schultz, "Necklace with Daguerrotype", "Amulet", "Duty" [poems not available online at this time]
Steven Sparks, "The Voyeur Explodes"
Les Wicks, "A Police Action in Vietnam"
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