Friday, April 27, 2018

----------------FROST PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT----------------------------------



Results of the 4-person, name-blind, double-read, outloud-tested
     judging are in!

Every submitted poem was quite good...no  horrors, all worth the time.
      It was a very enriching experience to read them all!

The same person may have multiple winning poems:
             the poem is judged, not the poet.


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2018 Frost Prize Winners
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PRIZE  DOCKET#    Author , Poem
       (serial)

#1     [25]      Jerome Gagnon  ,      "Cherries, After" 
                    (Hayward, CA)


#2     [6]       Mark Wacome Stevick , "Cross Our Hearts"
                    (Salem  MA)


#3     [10]      Jeffry Glover ,        "Raspberries"
                    (Stoughton  WI)


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Runners Up

[32]     Arne Weingart,          "Poet Descending a Staircase"
             (Chicago IL)

[34]     Linda Flaherty Haltmaier,    "Terra Incognita"
             (Andover MA)

[9]      Kendra Mack,           "Walking The Beach on an August Evening"
             (Ipswich MA)

[20]     Jean L. Kreilling,     "Remember Allerton"
             (Bridgewater MA)

[30]     Robert Smith,          "Subtext"
              (Huron OH)

[31]     Anne Weingart,         "Dolmens, Menhirs, Cromlechs"
             (Chicago IL)


[21]     Jean L. Kreilling,     "The Palette"
            (Bridgewater MA)



Thanks to everyone!
Prizes and reading options will follow via email....