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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2004
Congratulations to our 2004 prizewinners Robert Hill Long,
Rob Cook and
Marsha Cooper, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.
Their poems were judged the best of the 788 entries we received. Entries were judged anonymously.
This year's winners share cash prizes totaling $2,250.
Click the names below to read the winning entries and learn about the honorees.
Read comments on the entries from contest judge Jendi Reiter.
First Prize
Robert Hill Long, "Gulf War News Sign-Off, with Video Tricks"
Second Prize
Rob Cook, "The Song of Iraq"
Third Prize
Marsha Truman Cooper, "You Had To Be There"
Honorable Mentions
Pamela G. Barnes, "Sixty-Two Haikus on World War II"
Jennifer Emrick, "Industrial Flower in the Ash Field"
Scott Ennis, "The Bullet's Tale"
G. Lloyd Helm, "Lucifer on Air Strikes"
Laura Johnson, "Blood and Milk: the '36 Transmission"
Andrew E. Kalnik, "Bombers' Moon", "Ashland Overpass"
S.W. Rickett, "Operation Gomorrah"
Viktor J. Tichy, "Blue Eyes and Brandy"
S. Brady Tucker, "Whirligig"
Rik Wilkinson, "Letters for a Grandchild"
Finalists
Jack Barrack, "Bomber Dump", "Massacre"
Marilyn Bates, "War Zone of the Heart"
Angie Chuang, "Tet Lion Dance"
Diane Cockburn, "On Pelion Beach"
William Conelly, "R&R"
Michele F. Cooper, "Curdling"
Amy Cramer, "Independence Day, 1967"
Diane E. Dees, "Update on Afghanistan"
Deborah DeNicola, "The Kiss"
Michelle Gillett, "Detonations", "Victory Garden"
Edward Wright Haile, "Gaines's Mill"
Dudley Hiles, "Hands of War"
Victor Lodato, "The Bicycle Hearse"
Lisa Suhair Majaj, "What She Said"
Jim McGarrah, "Museum of Hostages"
Michael Perez, "American Poem"
Larry Wells, "Life's Picture History"
Andy Young, "Getting the news in Arabic", "To think of Madrid, March 11"
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