PSC now offers an online payment option to submit poems. Please select the number of poems you will be submitting below, then "add to cart" to pay using PayPal.
Don't forget to send your contest poems, using the criteria on this page, to the appropriate Contest Director by the published submission deadline.
Only members of PSC may submit to Member-Only Contests, which are held in September, November, January and March. Best of all First, Second, and Third Place winners of the Members-Only Contests of the year are eligible for the Daisie E. Robinson Sweepstakes which is announced each June.
Some contests will have a supplemental file that contains additional information regarding what the submission "must & should" contain. Click the options below to download the appropriate file(s).
May 2022 - Open Contest
Theme: Optional
1st Pl - Grackles, Nancy Cummins Bierman
2nd Pl - On the Perception of Time, Olivia Rissland
3rd Pl - Listing, 5/14, Melanie Clair Eulberg
1st HM - Who Am I, Susan Harman
2ND HM - BloodLine: Trilogy Pt. 3, Trenton Bobbitt
3rd HM - Doldrums, Nancy Cummins Bierman
April 2022 - Open Contest
Theme: A Part of Me
1st Pl - Private War, Martin J. Postma
2nd Pl - Distant Thoughts, Cheryl L. Wilkie
3rd Pl - Son Rise, Daniel A. Martinez
1st HM - Uncle Henry, Martin J. Postma
2nd HM - A Future Good To Build, Martin J. Postma
3rd HM - My Frizzy Childhood, Cheryl Miller
March 2022 - Members-Only Contest
Theme: Man with a Beard
1st Pl - Buenos Dias, Jean E Sidinger
2nd Pl - On Taste, Replaced, Olivia Rissland
3rd Pl - (Title not published), Susan Rocco-McKeel
1st HM - Unshaven for Too Long in Blue Hill, Maine, Marcel Duclos
2nd HM - Words for My Brother, Daniel Martinez
3rd HM - Lesson Learned, Marcel Duclos
February 2022 - Open Contest
Theme: Open
1st Place - Perspectives from Afar, Martin J. Postma
2nd Place - Drawing from Memory, Harriet Stratton
3rd Place - Getting Real, Marcel A. Duclos
1st HM - Invisible – Inaudible, Nancy C. Bierman
2nd HM - Winter Desserts, Gay Williford
3rd HM - I ran the day into being, Nancy C. Bierman
January 2022 - Members Only Contest
Theme: Only Once
1st Place - Clinician Remembers Her a Half Century Later, Marcel Duclos
2nd Place - Meeting Robert Kennedy, Melanie Eulberg
3rd Place - Being in the Moment, Cheryl Miller
1st HM - Expletives Deleted, Sarah Russell
2nd HM - The Fruit Vendor, Charles Rakay
3rd HM - The Times of Our Lives, Martin Postma
December 2021 - Open Contest
Theme: Person or Place
1st Place - Casandra’s Hope, Charles RaKay
2nd Place - The Salmon Falls River Curse, Marcel A. Duclos
3rd Place - Norden, Germany 1943, Martin J. Postma
1st H.M. - The Leader’s Lonely Privilege, Martin J. Postma
2nd H.M. - Nikki Hiding, Charles RaKay
3rd H.M. - Felicia’s Fate, Gay Williford
November 2021 - Members Only Contest #2
Theme: Unlocked
1st Place - That Long, Irish Mornin, Charles Rakay
2nd Place - Longing for Spring, Cheryl Miller
3rd Place - Sometimes We Need to Read Between the Lines, Ann Klaiman
1st H.M. - Unchained, Tracy Mitchell
2nd H.M. - *Haiku (untitled), Daniel Martinez
3rd H.M. - RELEASED, Daniel Martinez
October 2021 - Open Contest
Theme: Jabberwocky
1st Place - A DIZZY TIZZY, Cheryl Lee Wilkie
2nd Place - THE WATTNOTT, Daniel Angel Martinez
3rd Place - Struttin’ for the Champs, Nancy Cummins Bierman
1st H.M. - A Seltie Sea Shanty, Vaughn Neeld
2nd H.M. - Beware the Jabberbox, Martin J. Postma
3rd H.M. - Darcy, Robyn S. Kraus
September 2021 - Members Only Contest #1
Theme: Why Not ___?
1st Place - A Man with a Limp Asks, Marcel Duclos
2nd Place - A Dark Chocolate Covered Carmel Wheedles, Cheryl Miller
3rd Place - Flight of the Flutterby, Ann Klaiman
1st HM - Timeless Paths on Going, Cheryl Wilkie
2nd HM - Street Carnival, Von Neeld
3rd HM - Poetry on All Fours, Daniel Martinez
August 2021 - Open Contest - Leap and the Net Will Apear
1st Place - Live Fearlessly, Vaughn Neeld
2nd Place - Margaret Mitchell Saved My Life, Sarah Russell
3rd Place - Inspiration, Cheryl Wilkie
1st HM - I Do, Cheryl Miller
2nd HM - Teaching on Thin Ice, Gay Williford
3rd HM - Cliff Jumping, Holly Chichester
June 2021 - Open Contest - Tanka
1st Place - Memoir, Sandi Rae Rhynard
2nd Place - On the edge of town, Daniel Angel Martinez
3rd Place - Fanciful fireflies’, Jean E. Sidinger
1st HM - Fort Logan, Sandi Rae Rhynard
2nd HM - In late December, Cheryl Miller
3rd HM - Shoulders hunched, he’s crouched, Jean E. Sidinger
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May 2021 - Open Contest - Haiku
1st Place - For Rebecca’s Michael, Marcel A. Duclos
2nd Place - Frozen Dream, Marcel A. Duclos
3rd Place - Near the River’s Edge, Ann Klaiman
1st HM - Enduring Age, Cory Bloomfield
2nd HM - Old Dog, Susan J. Tyburski
3rd HM - Mountain Reverie, Melanie Claire Eulberg
April 2021 - Open Contest
1st Place - A Leap of Joy - Upsilamba!, Gay Williford
2nd Place - Such a Tenuous Hold, Kika Dorsey
3rd Place - Luminance, Susan J. Tyburski
1st HM - I Need More, Laurel Jean Becker
2nd HM - The Lady in 117, Gloria Jean Viglione
3rd HM - Flightless, Robyn S. Kraus
March 2021 - Members-Only Contest - From the Eyes of a Child
1st Place - A Cool New Friend, Jean E Sidinger
2nd Place - Magician, Marcel Duclos
3rd Place - Cures for Loneliness, Alice Goble
1st HM - The Leaving Songs, Mary Holland
2nd HM - Kindergarten Shoes, Jean E Sidinger
3rd HM - I Remember, Marcel Duclos
February 2021 - Open Contest - Somewhere I Have Never Traveled
1st Place - Unincorporated Village of Stawford, Tracy Mitchell
2nd Place - I Long to Someday Visit, Jean Sidinger
3rd Place - Ignorant in the Zambian Bush, Marcel Duclos
1st HM - When Jupiterians Come for Me, Tracy Mitchell
2nd HM - A Vision of the Taj Mahal, Cheryl Wilkie
3rd HM - Grandpa's Boots, Daniel A. Martinez
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