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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2004

2004 War Poetry Winners

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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War Poetry Contest
2008 War Poetry Results

Congratulations to our 2008 prizewinners Aliene Pylant, David Brendan Hopes and Jude Nutter, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.

First Prize - $2,000
Aliene Pylant
Unerring Mercy and Pure Grace

Second Prize - $1,200
David Brendan Hopes
In the First Days of the War; Memorial Day

Third Prize - $600
Jude Nutter
Via Negativa; Visiting Uncle Peter's Grave; Carolina Grasshoppers

Honorable Mentions
$100 each
M.C. Allan
Michael Fredson
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Atar Hadari
Elizabeth Hoover
Alice Irvin
Michael Joyce
Lynne Knight
Carolyn Moore
Jerry Neren
Flo St. Jean
Curt Snodgrass

Finalists
EP Allan
H. Lee Barnes
Glenn Buttkus
Carmine Dandrea
Paul Handley
Kelly Michels
Kevin C. Peters
Carrie Preston
Jay Rogoff
Anindita Sengupta
Avery Slater
James Tyner




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