Annual Contest Winners

CSPS Annual Contest Winners

Year	Judge	Place	Poet	Poem
2023	Anna Maria Mickiewicz A Polish-British bilingual poet, Anna Maria is the founder of Literary Waves publish- ing house. Her works have appeared in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, Po- land, Mexico, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, El Salvador, and India.	1st 2nd 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM HM	Sharon Chmielarz Claire Scott Susan Wolbarst Mark G. Hammerschick Claire Scott Gurupreet K. Khalsa Mark G. Hammerschick Christine Horner rg cantalupo rg cantalupo	180^o Transitions Old People are Such a Drag Badassery Call Me Shahed God Is Depressed Again Wandering Brume to Sparks Quantum Entanglement About Spring Black Einstein
2022	Frank Iosue An Arizona poet, Frank judged the 2021 NFSPS Poetry Society of Texas Annual Contest. He has published eleven chapbooks and a book of poetry, Collected Poems: The Au Revoir of an Enormous Us in 2017.	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM HM	Jeanne Wagner Susan Wolbarst Claire Scott Claire Scott Claire Scott Claire Scott Susan Wolbarst Claire Scott Sunny Yim Alperson	Dolores Street After Ariadne Auf Naxos S&H Green Stamps Motel Rooms of Last Resort The Sea Squirt Loses Its Mind Where's Ginny? In the Revised Version: A Different Mother Husband's Urn
2021	Georgia Jones-Davis After 25 years as a journalist, Georgia's poetry has appeared in Westwind, Brevities, and other magazines. Her chapbooks, Blue Poodle (2011) and Night School (2015), were published by Finishing Line Press.	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM	Robert S. Spich Bruce Gallie David Anderson Claire Scott Louise Moises Livingston Rossmoor Susanne Wiley	Three Men in a Boat Snow Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men in a Tub Winged Sandals A Snake in Pajamas I Don't Know Why Wish
2020	Kaecey McCormick Award-winning artist, author and educator, 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Cupertino	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM	Anara Guard Susan Gunter Barbara Allen Hilary King Abby Bogomolny Mark Meierding Kathleen McClung Greg Gregory	Respite Low Sun Angle Boundaries The Gain More War Than the One Staying Alive Demands of Us April, 2020 For My Twelve Students Absent on Halloween Covers
2019	Lisa Rosenberg Award-winning poet; former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, 2017-2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM	Robert Keeler Claire Scott Kathleen McClung David Anderson Selma Calnan Katharyn Howd Machan Ed McManis Neal Zirn	Stone, She Skull of Moon, Fist of Stars For the Young Man Unimpressed with the Sky Inside the Chicken Shed Mighty Eucalipti A Lamp on the Polished Table Fire for Fire Too Much of Nothing
2018	MaryLee McNeal Award-winning novelist and poet; Bay Area creative writing teacher in academic (CSU San Francisco), public and private milieus	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM	Peter Parker Kathleen McClung Claire Scott Claire Millikin Ed McManis	Moonlight Two Boardwalks Stitching Shadows How to Build a Mirror The Fall
2017	Kevin Hearle Prof., UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara Univ., CSU San Jose; Visiting Scholar, Stanford; widely published poet	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM	Claire Scott Katharyn Howd Machan Thomas Feeny Rett LeMoult Marian Slattery	Before COLEMAN LITTLE: Redwing 1888 Screenwriter Don't Tell Them Wordsworth in the Twenty-First Century
2016	Neshama Franklin Bay Area Writer, Story-Teller, Reviewer, and Radio Host	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM	Claire Scott Susan Richardson David Anderson Katharyn Howd Machan Rose Ann Spaith Catharine Lucas	To Her Psychiatrist Dragonfly Chores Water, Music What I Tried To Give My Daughter Tightrope Ebb Tide
2015	Erica Goss Los Gatos Poet Laureate	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM	Katharyn Howd Machan David Anderson Claire Scott John Oliver Simon Xan L. Roberti Claire Scott George E. Samerjan Marie Chambers	SARA ELLEN FLOOD: Redwing, 1888 The Half-Breeds Too Late Dysarthria Skytalk Windows A Stray II The Whiteness of Bones
2014	Katherine Hastings Sonoma County Poet Laureate	1st 2nd 3rd HM	Greg Gregory Eileen Malone David Anderson Timothy Russell	Seventieth Oxalis Three Somonkas In Yoshino
2013	Sally Ashton Prof., Cal State San Jose Santa Clara County Poet Laureate	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM	Kathleen McClung Katharyn Howd Machan George E. Samerjan Carol Altieri Bruce Crawford Carol Eve Ford Kathleen McClung	At the Marin Art Festival At the Last Radio Kuwait (1059) Dancing at Donahue's Time Warp Embroidery Perfect Game
2012	Nils Peterson Prof. Emeritus, Cal State San Jose	1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM HM HM HM HM HM	Gillian Wegener Beverly Collins Diane Glancy Gary Maggio Maureen Flannery Lorraine Vail Jane Knechtel Zara Raab Meredith Kunsa J. D. Blair Sue Fagalde Lick Eileen Malone Sheryl Clough	Astronomy Uncle John Ames Camel Holding a Book First Poem Ever After the Last Page Ghost at the Table Time Fracas in the Street Telling It Backwards Nobody's Home Woman's Work She Rows the Night Two Sisters in Kayaks