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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2011
Congratulations to our 2011 prizewinners John M. Harris Jr., Charles Doyle, and Alicia Ruskin, and to our 12 honorable mentions and 15 finalists. Their poems were judged the best out of the 2,333 entries we received. Cash prizes totaling $3,600 were awarded.
Click the names below to view the winning entries and learn about the honorees. Read comments on the entries from contest judge Jendi Reiter. Read the press release announcing the winning entries.
First Prize
John M. Harris Jr.
"The Flight Line Commedia"
Second Prize
Charles Doyle
"T'was the Week After Doomsday"
Third Prize
Alicia Ruskin
"Speaking of Speaking"
Honorable Mentions
Stuart Anderson and Nancy Lee, "Frosty the Poet"
Janette Berry, "Menopausal Rhapsody"
Paula Camacho, "My Last Husband"
Jeff Cooke, "Auditions Shall Proceed to Railcar #5"
Megan Elaine Davis, "A Psalm of Mice"
Wayne Edwards, "Bumper Sticker"
Randy Gross, "The Balls"
Kathleen Lynch, "Soaps Fan"
J.S. McTuile, "A Hipster Love Sonnet Sequence (Or Whatever)"
Jennifer Moore, "The Don with the Luminous Prose"
Lauren Singer, "regarding eggplant"
Amoja Sumler, "My Candidate of Choice"
Finalists
Catherine Affleck, "The Loyalty of the Sock Questioned"
Emmalina Bear, "Calabration Hooligan"
John Crowley, "Three Little Pigs"
Dale Dewoody, "How to Write a Poem for a Journal"
Alice Friman, "Riding High"
Corey Ginsberg, "Sex with my Ex"
Tim Goldstone, "I Miss You But There Is Such a Thing as Banana Gin"
George Grace, "Bagging It"
Danica Green, "My Muse is at a Sci-Fi Convention in Reykjavik"
Rick Lupert, "Rules for Poetry"
Dennis McLelland, "Gibberish from the Tenth Dimension"
Hope Murphy-Nanton, "The ASBO Kid"
John Nuck, "No Matter What Position You're In"
Marilyn Gear Pilling, "Billy Collins Interviewed on Stage at Chautauqua"
Lauren Walker, Untitled ("Your Image...")
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