2018 CSPS Monthly Contest Winners
Month | Topics | Place | Poet | Poem |
January
|
Nature, Seasons, Landscape, Ecology
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jerry Douglas Smith
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
David Anderson
|
Lost Valley
California Blandscape
Plum Tree in Bloom
|
February
|
Romance, Love, Emotions
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Danny Bazil Riley
Von S. Bourland
Lillian M. Fisher
|
My Love For You
CA Self-Styled Wall of Grief
A Memory
|
March
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
David Anderson
Jane Stuart
|
Seamstress
The Last Songs of St. Kilda
Summer Ends With Butterflies
|
April
|
Travel, History, Mythology, Other Cultures
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Von S. Bourland
Lillian M. Fisher
Josephine Chou
|
Watermelon Mountain
Her House
Imposter
|
May
|
Portraits, Persons, Characters
Portraits of animals, objects, places
with character.
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jane Stuart
Nick Sweet
Mary Jo Lofiego West
|
Green-Gowned Goddess
Places in Five
Passion
|
June
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jane Stuart
Casey Derengowski
Ed McManis
|
Time's Sweetest Gift
Dust on the Bugle
Stealing Home
|
July
|
Childhood, Memoir, Lessons of the Past
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Barbara Blanks
Von S. Bourland
Rudy Paolino
|
Beyond Book Learning
Gathering of the Clan
The Old Oak Tree
|
August
|
Humor, Satire, Joy of Life
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Gary Enos
Barbara Blanks
Patricia Hukill
|
A Golfer's Eulogy
Heads Up
At Seventy-Five
|
September
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Von S. Bourland
Amanullah Khan
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
|
Measuring Device
Benny Went to Sleep
Any Day Now
|
October
|
War & Peace, Activism & Politics
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Gary Enos
Kathy Lundy Derengowski
Barbara Blanks
|
Serf and King
Memorial Day 2018
Battle of Verdun
|
November
|
Family, Friendship, Human Condition
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Lillian M. Fisher
Jane Stuart
Katharyn Howd Machan
|
Emma's Garden
Return to Country
Eyes Downcast
|
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
|
William Hagen
Von S. Bourland
Ron Lauderbach
|
Swing Dance
Cutting Zoo
Mom's Tacos
|