2014 Contest Results

Golden Rose Award
Jean Valentine

Rosalie Boyle/Norma Farber Award
Judge: Ellin Sarot
Winner: Calypso Calls on Penelope, by Robert Crawford
Honorable Mention: On Learning the Harvest Moon is an Optical Illusion, by Midge Goldberg
Villanelle Vows, by Neal Whitman
Healthcare Commuter, by Len Krisak

Der-Hovanessian Prize
Judge: Lloyd Schwarz
Winner: Little Street for Sex, Andrea Jurjevic translating Olja Savicevic Ivancevic
Honorable Mention: Don’t Turn Me Down, Douglas Basford translating Il Burchiello (Domenico di Giovanni)

Erika Mumford Prize
Judge: Richard Hoffman
Winner: For Nefertiti Negron, by Scott Ruescher
Honorable Mention: Finom, by Hilde Weisert
Hummingbird in the Hand of Tu Fu, by Steve Lautermilch

Firman Houghton Award
Judge: Tomas O’Leary
Co-Winner: Welcome, by Susan Eisenberg
Co-Winner: Wythe County in July, by Dolores Hayden

Barbara Bradley Award
Judge: Judith Kneen
Co-Winner: Lately, by Patricia Fargnoli
Co-Winner: Trilogy, by Jane Attanucci
Honorable Mention: This is How it is Now, by Catherine Staples

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award
Judge: David Ellis
Co-Winner: Sound Travels on Water, by Kyle Potvin
Co-Winner: Living in the Counterpoint, by Michael T. Young

Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize
Judge: Victor Howes
Co-Winner: Book Dog, by Cleopatra Matthis
Co-winner: Voices of King Phillip’s War, by Faye George