Contest Winners
Prize Winners for 2008, Marie Howe, Judge

FIRST PRIZE The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
($1,000)
Anne Johnson Mullin from New Harbor, ME
"Children's Carnival St. Thomas, USVI"
Winning poem published on web site one year after Awards Edition is issued.

SECOND PRIZE: ($250)
Oriana Ivy from Chula Vista , CA, "All Souls"

THIRD PRIZE: ($100)

Mary Legato Brownell from Jenkintown, PA, "St. Louis, December"

FOURTH PRIZE: ($50)

Judith Valente from Normal, IL, "Mother of God Monastery, Watertown SD"

HONORABLE MENTIONS (Subscriptions for 2009)

Mary Legato Brownell, Jenkintown, PA,
"What is Faithful. The Good. The Silent"
Will Dowd, New York, NY, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Lynn Pedersen, Kennesaw, GA, "Pre-Op"
Catherine Strisik, San Cristobal, NM, "Roy"

OTHER SPECIAL MERIT POETS

Elizabeth Aoki, Seattle, WA, "For a heartbeat"
Kathryn E. Clement, Mesa, AZ, "British Road Signs" and "Turning"
Will Dowd, NewYork, NY. "Artificial Pond"
Patricia Fargnoli, Walpole, NH, "The Attic"
Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA, "Winter Wrens"
Willa Granger, Mamaroneck, NY, "Bill, Wyoming"
Elizabeth Hull, Berlin, CT, Id"
Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kalamazoo, MI, "Drought"
Mariama J. Lockington, Oakland, CA , "Epilogue to a Love Story"
Daniel D. Maguire, Baltimore, MD, "Counting Rivers"
Megan Merchant, Las Vegas, NV "One"
Ashraf Osman, Philadelphia, PA "Tired"   and   "The Coming"
Sherman Pearl, Santa Monica, CA "Cookies"
Connie Post, Livermore, CA "Flood Water"
Wendy Wisner, Bayside, NY "Milk Dreams"
Nancy Means Wright , Cornwell, VT "Anna's Goat"

All Special Merit poems went to Ms. Howe for judging.

Contest Winners:  2007 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 2007, Carolyn Forché, Judge
1st Prize: The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award ($1,000)
       Sally Albisio from Port Angeles, WA "Beggar’s Purse"
2^nd Prize: Casey Charles from Missoula, MT "Stay"
3^rd Prize: ($100) Steven Lautermilch from Kill Devil Hills NC
       "Confession and Penance,   For Paul Cezanne"
4th Prize: 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"
2^nd Prize:($250) Greg Larson from Richfield, MN "Vertebrae"
3^rd 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)

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