2014 CSPS Monthly Contest Winners
| Month | Topics | Place | Poet | Poem |
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January
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Nature, Seasons, Landscape, Ecology
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Lillian M. Fisher
Jerry Douglas Smith
Bruce Crawford
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I See the Hill
Traces
Corn Song
|
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February
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Romance, Love, Emotions
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Lillian M. Fisher
Ninette Freed
Von S. Bourland
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Memory
Love, at Last
Breaking Ground
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March
|
Free Subject
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Ninette Freed
Lillian M. Fisher
George E. Samerjan
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Spring Despite Growing Torment
A Mother Speaking
I Saw a Man Dancing on the Sidewalk
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April
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Travel, History, Mythology, Other Cultures
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Teresa Bullock
Von S. Bourland
John McBride
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Pomegranate
The Birth Tree
The Cave at Lascaux
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May
|
Portraits, Persons, Characters
Portraits of animals, objects, places
with character.
|
1st
2nd
3rd
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Ninette Freed
Von S. Bourland
Lillian M. Fisher
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Van Gogh Vision
Cast Iron Maiden
To a Live Oak
|
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June
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Lillian M. Fisher
David Anderson
Evelyn Cole
|
The Game
Claude Monet, Giverny, 1922
Life on the Edge
|
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July
|
Childhood, Memoir, Lessons of the Past
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
David Anderson
Katharyn Howd Machan
John McBride
|
Struck by Wind
Highway
Lessons of the Immigrant
|
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August
|
Humor, Satire, Joy of Life
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Katharyn Howd Machan
Lillian M. Fisher
Jane Stuart
|
Brown
Dilemma
Life’s Journey
|
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September
|
Free Subject
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Barbara Blanks
Jane Stuart
Katharyn Howd Machan
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So It Begins
Tonight Brings Back the World that Was
Lucinda Garr, Redwing, 1888
|
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October
|
War & Peace, Activism & Politics
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Bruce Crawford
Felix Fojas
Barbara Blanks
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Cpl. Pat Tillman, KIA
Anti-War Prayer
Letter from England, 3rd July
|
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November
|
Family, Friendship, Human Condition
|
1st
2nd
3rd
|
Barbara Blanks
Von S. Bourland
Lisha Perini
|
The Family Meeting
Fact, Not Wishes
Disembodied
|
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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.
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1st
2nd
3rd
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Von S. Bourland
George E. Samerjan
June Gerron
|
Unexpected Treasure at an Estate Sale
High Bank Canto IV
Whale Watching
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