2021 CSPS Monthly Contest Winners
| Month | Topics | Place | Poet | Poem |
|
January
|
Nature, Seasons, Landscape
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Emory D. Jones
Marlene Hitt
David Anderson
|
Sanctuary
Summer of Fire
The Coming Snow
|
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February
|
Love
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Claire J. Baker
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
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Speculation
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
|
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March
|
Open, Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Julia Park Tracey
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
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Just One Thing
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
|
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April
|
Mythology, Dreams, Other Universes
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Jerry Douglas Smith
Teresa Bullock
Ruth Berman
|
Aboriginal Americans
Plein Air, Oxford
Praxilla's Folly
|
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May
|
Personification, Characters, Portraits
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Louise Kantro
Elaine Westheimer
Elizabeth Kuelbs
|
Is That a Bird?
Mending Its Own Business
The House Knows
|
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June
|
The Supernatural
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Gail White
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
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The Ghost in the Restaurant
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
|
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July
|
Childhood, Memoirs
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Corey Weinstein
Keala Rusher
Chryss Yost
|
Mezzrow's Mistake
On Butterflies
Canid
|
|
August
|
Places, Poems of Location |
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Ahmad Aamir Malik
Eileen Carole
Lynne M. Hansen
|
Montreal from a Departing
Plane's Window
Caribbean Dreams 1 & 2
Anacapa, Island of Mirage
|
|
September
|
Colors, Music, Dance
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Catherine McCraw
Carla Schick
Jonathan Ansley Ward
|
Blue Plate Special
Other Miracles I Failed to
Notice (Remembering Col-
trane's Dear Lord)
Are Islands Alive?
|
|
October
|
Humor, Satire
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Joan Gerstein
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
|
A Day of Races
No Placing Poem
No Placing Poem
|
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November
|
Family, Friendship, Relationships
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Marilyn Robertson
Cathleen Porter
Jeff Graham
|
Cannery Row Mural, 1946
Insatiable
Ode: The 2020's
|
|
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
|
Lynn M. Hansen
Elizabeth Kuelbs
Louise Kantro
|
Storm Spiders
Flower Moon
By the Campfire, Borrego
Desert
|