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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2007
Congratulations to our 2007 prizewinners Kyle McDonald,
Julian Damanas and
Aliene Pylant, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.
Their poems were judged the best of the 840 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
Kyle McDonald, "The Rose of Ilium"
Second Prize - $1,200
Julian Damanas, "Gasoline"
Third Prize - $600
Aliene Pylant, "Girl in the Fire"
Honorable Mentions - $100 each
Lollie Butler, "The Comfort Women"
Susan Deer Cloud, "Killing Fields", "Ice Storm", "Letters from the Dead"
Corrinne Clegg Hales, "Homefront: A Legacy"
Joseph Hart, "Ajax Looks at the Stars"
Mark Hart, "Pissing Under Pressure"
David Lloyd, "Sestina: After the Crucifixion"
Robert Hill Long, "Reveille and Taps"
Pan Morigan, "Napalm"
Noel Paladin Tripp, "Song for the Twentieth Maine"
Ian Schwartz, "The Dust of Paradise"
Patricia Smith, "Eyewitness News", "Resolutely Toward the End", "Almost"
Brenda Tate, "Leaving the Lee Shore"
Finalists
John-Noel Attard, "Triptych with Bridge"
Patricia Barone, "Amazing Grace: A Hymn at the Home"
Peter Neil Carroll, "War Time"
Chella Courington, "Lynette's War"
Kate Duva, "Wings of a Boy"
Starkey Flythe, Jr., "J-P"
Simon Guerrero, "The Unknown Soldier"
Paul Hamill, "A Quiet Evening by Fort Johnson"
Adrie Kusserow, "War Metaphysics for a Sudanese Girl", "Milk", "Mud"
Tim Mayo, "The Counterfeit Seal"
Charlotte Muse, "The Torturer Describes His Job"
Kevin C. Peters, "A marking, for each and all"
Martin Steele, "Can We Believe Them?"
Burlee Vang, "The Dead I Know", "Lines for the Fleeing Widow and Her Children"
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