2017 CSPS Monthly Contest Winners
| Month | Topics | Place | Poet | Poem |
|
January
|
Nature, Seasons, Landscape, Ecology
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Meryl Natchez
Von. S. Bourland
David Anderson
|
Apology to Trees
Fed by Folioage
The Coming Snow
|
|
February
|
Romance, Love, Emotions
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Barbara Blanks
Mary Jo Lofiego West
Jane Stuart
|
Road Songs
Looking In
Remembering Love |
|
March
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Sally Clark
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Mary Jo Lofiego West |
One Screw Loose
Beginnings
Tule Fog |
|
April
|
Travel, History, Mythology, Other Cultures
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Barbara Blanks
Mary Jo Lofiego West
Jane Stuart
|
The trail where they cried
Monument
Tantalizing Maze
|
|
May
|
Portraits, Persons, Characters
Portraits of animals, objects, places
with character.
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jane Gragg Lewis
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Barbara Blanks
|
Mariner 1
Grown Up
Silence of the Sham |
|
June
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Mary Jo Lofiego West
David Anderson
|
The Others
Interlude
Another Villanelle |
|
July
|
Childhood, Memoir, Lessons of the Past
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jane Stuart
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Katharyn Howd Machan
|
Libellus
Child of Mine
Rats |
|
August
|
Humor, Satire, Joy of Life
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
George E. Samerjan
Rudy Paolino
Barbara Blanks
|
More of Me
Ice Cream Dreams
Ah-So |
|
September
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Janet Lombard
Rudy Paolino
Claire Scott
|
Cold Storage
Stuff and Things
Home Made Gods |
|
October
|
War & Peace, Activism & Politics
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Amie Ilva Tatem
Jane G. Lewis
Nick Sweet
|
GOOD TERMS
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Decent/Descent
|
|
November
|
Family, Friendship, Human Condition
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Lillian M. Fisher
Mary Jo Lofiego West
Barbara Blanks
|
The Call
Best Friend
In the Hamlet of Yuriage |
|
December
|
Best of Your Best
Winning or published poem only. Indicate
complete name of contest or publication
and the issue/date of the publication/
award.
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Von. S. Bourland
Gregor K. Gregory
Michael Fraley
|
A Tree Grew in Managua, Nicaragua
Wetlands
The Spring of My Elation
|