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Winners of the 2011 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest,
Marilyn Nelson, Judge


FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)

BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Ne Dirvatur Fuga Temporum

Second Prize, $250
BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Li Po and the Moon

Third Prize, $100
Anna Scotti, of Santa Monica, California, for Twelve

First Honorable Mention
Steve Lautermilch, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for Basho Mujo

Second Honorable Mention
Trent Nutting, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for Air Raid

Third Honorable Mention
Josephine Yu, of Tallahassee, Florida, for Cock, an Etymology

Honorable Mention poets receive a one year subscription to Comstock Review

Special Merit Recognition goes to:

BJ Buckley, of Power, Montana, for Halo
Jennifer Chapis, of Brooklyn, New York, for Living Alone
Donna Coffey, of Waleska, Georgia, for House Boat
Becky Dennison Sakellariou of Kifissia, Greece, for Wing Bones
Kirsten Dierking, of Arden Hills, Minnesota, for Kayak
Rebecca Foust, of Ross, California, for On the Runway
Carol Frith, of Sacramento, California, for Exposed River
Tonissa Saul, of Brooklyn, New York, for Nails
Nancy Hewitt, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, for Heard
Rachel Langille, of Mission Viejo, California,
for Returning from Vermont
Peter Ludwin, of Kent Washington, for Trail of Compassion, Baker City, Oregon
Debra Marquart, of Ames, Iowa, for Invasive
Trent Nutting, of Wallingford, Connecticut, for Old Shoes
Connie Post, of Livermore, California, for Advice to the Dog Sitter
and Structurally Sound
Lisa D. Schmidt, of Federal Way, Washington, of Loose Ends
Anna Scotti, of Santa Monica, California, for Around the World in Forty Years
Sarah Sousa, of Ashfield, Massachusetts, for The Art of Flying
Paul Weidknecht, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, for Plantation’s Corn
Josephine Yu, of Tallahassee, Florida, for Word of Warning
Geraldine Zetzel, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
for This Will Only Hurt for a Minute

All poems are screened by the Comstock Review Editors.
Editors and Final Judge do not know the poets’ names until winners are selected.
This year’s Honorable Mention poems were selected by Marilyn Nelson.

Please note:  we are still reviewing submissions and finalists who will be featured in the Awards issue.  We will be notifying people by mid-November 2011.

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Contest Winners: 2009 to 1987 (Click on poem name to view the poem. Scroll down to see all poems from both the National and Central New York Contests)

Prize Winners for 2010, Charles Martin, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
JoAnne Preiser of Needham, MA, for "Renditions"
                  (Winning poem will be published on web site in 2012.)
2nd Prize: ($250)
John Thelín of Buena Vista, VA, for "Natural History"
3rd Prize ($100)
Catherine Chandler of Saint Lazare, Quebec, Canada, 
                  for "Shadow Fish"
Judge's 1st Honorable Mention
Jeri McCormick of Madison, WI,
                  for "When youth decides to walk out on you"
Judge's 2nd Honorable Mention
Carol Frith of Sacramento, CA,
                  for "Staves for an Absent Friend"
This issue has been delayed in printing and should be out by the end of 2011.

Prize Winners for 2009, Maxine Kumin, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
Jeanne Emmons from McCook Lake, SD
, "Termites: The Covenant"
                (Winning poem will be published on web site in 2011.
2nd Prize: ($250) Robert Carl Williams from Pittsfield, VT, "Allegory"
3rd Prize ($100) Mary Legato Brownell from Jenkintown, PA, "Eve"

Prize Winners for 2008, Marie Howe, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Anne Johnson Mullin from New Harbor, ME, "Children's Carnival,
     St. Thomas, USVI"
2nd Prize: ($250) Oriana Ivy from Chula Vista , CA, "All Souls"
3rd Prize: ($100) Mary Legato Brownell from Jenkintown, PA,
     "St. Louis, December"
4th Prize: ($50) Judith Valente from Normal, IL, "Mother of God Monastery,
     Watertown SD"
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Prize Winners for 2007, Carolyn Forché, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
       Sally Albisio
from Port Angeles, WA
"Beggar’s Purse"
2nd Prize: ($250) Casey Charles from Missoula, MT "Stay"
3rd Prize:  ($100)
 
Steven Lautermilch from Kill Devil Hills NC
       "Confession and Penance,   For Paul Cezanne"
4th Prize: ($50) 
J.T. Ledbetter from Thousand Oaks, CA "Child of the Palouse"
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Prize Winners for 2006, Thomas Lux, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Allan Peterson
from Gulf Breeze FL
"Antipyretic"
2nd Prize:($250) Greg Larson from Richfield, MN "Vertebrae"
3rd Prize: ($100)
Lynn Levin from Southhampton, PA "To Hair"
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Prize Winners for 2005,
Cornelius Eady
, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Jamie Ross from Carson, NM,   "Elope" 
2nd Prize: ($250)  Paul Aviles from Syracuse, NY, "Mizu- The Word for Water"
3rd Prize ($100)   Therése Halscheid from Haddonfield, NJ, "Trash Day"
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Prize Winners for 2004, Molly Peacock, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Judson Evans, from Holbrook, MA: "Window Washer"   
2nd Prize:     
Karen Mandell, from Needham, MA:  "Portrait of a Lady, 1801-1834
3rd Prize: Mimi Walter Hinman, from San Jose, CA: "Mulberry Ghazal"
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Prize Winners for 2003.  David St. John, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
     Stacie Cassarino from South Windsor, CT , "Half June"  
2nd Prize: 
Kathryn E. Clement, "Nighthawks (Edward Hopper, 1941)"
3rd Prize:  R. G. Evans ,  "To The Flayed Goat ...."
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Prize Winners for 2002:  Kelly Cherry, Judge
1st Prize:  The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award. $1,000
     Melanie Almeder "Poem for the Man Who Does Not Answer the Phone"
2nd Prize $250        Andrea Potos:  "Emily Dying"
3rd Prize:  $100          Autumn McClintock:  "On Harris Hill"
4th Prize: $50          Melanie Drane:    "Buddy Breathing" 
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Prize Information About the Poet

PRIZE WINNERS FOR 2001, 
                  

The Perfection 
First Prize Mureil Craft Bailey
Award:  $1,000
 

 

 Mary Oliver, Judge




by Paul Hostovsky 

Paul Hostovsky lives in Millis, MA where h works as an interpreter for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf.  His poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and The Lyric, among others, and his first book, Sonnets from South Mountain, came out in 2001.

Invitation to Rockaway
2nd
Prize: $200

by Jennifer Keller (New York, NY)
What the Mother Skunk Told Her Babies
3rd Prize: $100
by Melissa Montimurro

(Layton, NJ)

   

 

Prize Information About the Poet
Tornado

Year 2000 First Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Award
Prize: $1000
Judge: Stephen Dobyns

by Elaine Christensen

Elaine Christensen was born in Frankfurt , Germany. An army-brat, she grew up in Japan, across the United States, and back in Germany, as a teenager, where she attended a girl’s German school for three years...
Hereafter
2nd Prize: $250

by Janell Moon (Emeryville, CA)
RPM 3rd Prize: $100

by Jarret Keene (Tallahassee, FL)
   

 

Prize Information About the Poet
Reading the River
(scroll down)

1999 Muriel Craft Bailey Award
1st Prize: $1000
Judge: Ellen Bryant Voight

by Charles Atkinson

Charles Atkinson was born and raised in New England, graduated cum laude from Amherst College, served with the Peace Corps in Manila, Republic of the Philippines. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he currently teaches writing of various sorts.

Blue Moons Over Miami
2nd Prize: $200

by Carolyne Wright
Rope  3rd Prize: $100

by Kathleen McKinley Harris

 

Prize Information About the Poet
Judas Tree  (scroll down)

1998 Muriel Craft Bailey Award Prize: $500
Judge: Andrew Hudgins

by Patric Pepper
Millie Cole's Last Fall...
2nd
Prize: $200

by Linda Taylor
He With Herbs/She With Walnuts   3rd Prize: $100

by Sandra Bishop-Ebner

 

Prize Information About the Poet

1997 Muriel Craft Bailey Award Prize: $500
The Organ of Promise    

Judge: Michael Burkard
(scroll down to see poem)

 

    

by L. J. Kay

Click here to see  1988-1996 Winners List
Click here to see
1987-1996 Winners' poems  (Scroll down, poems are in chronological order)

 
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