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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