Poetry Society of Colorado - Contests

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