Love Poem for Carl Sagan | Robin Myers
One of the best poems I’ve read in my life. The music, the scope… Brilliant! —G.A.
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Father | Rosa Lane
Her vivid imagining of her father returned from death as a hummingbird, hovering above his daughters. –NMW
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Intruder | Noah Stetzer
Noah Stetzer of Washington, D.C. has won the 39th New Millennium Poetry Prize for “Intruder.” He will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. “It begins with the mystery of a few missing pills…or is it a few too many? A clever take on the unreliable narrator, this poem broods over what to do when
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Meanwhile, We Called Ourselves Human | Claire Bateman
Claire Bateman of Greenville, South Carolina has won the 40th New Millennium Poetry Prize for “Meanwhile, We Called Ourselves Human,”. She will $1,000 and publication both online and in print. Maureen McLane, celebrated poet and 2014 National Book Award Finalist, served as our guest judge for this contest. McLane had these words of praise for Bateman’s poem: “A
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Parental Love | Lee Jines
— Author’s First Published Poem — Lee R. Jines (1941-2014) – Born in Baton Rouge, LA, Lee was an Army veteran and was active in the ceramic and sculpture art community, little theater, commercial modeling, and has appeared in a few movies. Read his poem…
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The Taliban Takes Pakistan | Pamela Uschuk
American Book Award winner, Pamela Uschuk graduated with honors with a MFA in Poetry and Fiction from the University of Montana. Called by The Bloomsbury Review, “one of the most insightful and spirited poets today,” she is the author of six books of poems, including the award-winning Finding Peaches in the Desert and Crazy Love (2010
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Boxwood | Barbara Knott
Barbara Knott of Atlanta, GA has won the 28th New Millennium Poetry Prize for “Boxwood.” She will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print.
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Obama Award Winner | Frances Payne Adler
Frances Payne Adler has won the special New Millennium “Obama” Poetry Prize for “In the White House.” She will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frances Payne Adler is the author of five books, including The Making of a Matriot, and is nationally recognized for her collaborative social action art
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The Visible Spectrum | Ellen Sullins
Poetry Writing Contest #24 (2009)
First Place
For me, the most rewarding writing often starts out as one thing and morphs into something else entirely. When I began this piece, I was light-heartedly pondering the question of what goes on (or doesn’t) in the minds of cats, but then the poem grabbed my pen and the rest of The Visible Spectrum wrote itself. The desire to return to that state of altered consciousness and emotional openness is what keeps me writing. — Ellen Sullins
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Survival | Susan Cohen
Poetry Writing Contest 22 (2008)
First Place
When digging in the ashes, sometimes you find a poem. I worked on this one over several years, paring the language while the idea enlarged itself. — Susan Cohen
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