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2023-2024 PSV Annual Contests: RESULTS
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Our Judges Have Chosen This Year's Winners
With more than 1,100 entries in this year's PSV Annual Contests, our judges had a lot of creativity and poetry to sit with while they made their decisions after our January 19 deadline.
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We start the unveiling of this year's results by showcasing our judges for each category:​
Wendell Hawken
Edgar Allen Poe Memorial
Bart White
Sarah Lockwood
Kim Hazelwood Haley
Bess Gresham
Nicole Yurcaba
Carleton Drewry
Barry Gross
Nancy Byrd Turner
Kristen Zimet
Cenie H. Moon
Sarah E N Kohrs
Judah, Sarah, Grace, Tom
Kirk Judd
Charlotte Wise
Angela Carter
Brodie Herndon
Barbara Crooker
Robert S. Sergeant
Stan Galloway
Anne Spencer
Tully Potter
Handy Andy
Nathaniel Perry
Dr. Lucile E. Thompson
Fred Wilbur
Honoring Fatherhood
Henry Hart
Strong Point of View
Donald Wheelock
Joanne Durham
Elizabeth Neuwirth
Joe Pendleton Campbell
Luisa A. Igloria
Ekphrastic
Margaret McKinnon
Joanne Scott Kennedy
Pauletta Hansel
Elizabeth J. Urquhart
David Mills
Jeff Hewitt
Dr. Laura Bylenok
Alexandra "Zan" Delaine Hailey
Jim Kaicin
Hardy Haiku
Dr. Jay Paul
Climate Change
Roselyn Elliott
Family Relationship
Joanna Lee
Russ and Ellen Notar
Stephanie Lask
Spoken Word & Verse
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2023-2024 Endowed Categories
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1st - Erin Wells - "Ex Machina" 2nd - Hannah Rouse - "night time skin care" 3rd - Angela Beatrice - "Eliot in Parcels" HM - Sarah Ann Winn - "Librarian to the Visible Heavens"
1st - toni tyler - "Skin" 2nd - Wendell Hawken - "Diapause" 3rd - Eric Forsbergh - "A Second Date, at the Ballet" HM - Linda Ankrah-Dove - "Patience"
1st - Christina Linsin - "Bikes" 2nd - Wes Carrington - "Perfect Poems" 3rd - Diana Woodcock - "Why I Want to Reconnect With My High School" HM - Brian Chee - "I Remember You"
1st - Gail Giewont - "Dianthus" 2nd - A. Logan Hill - "When it is time ..." 3rd - Sarah Ann Winn - "If Birds Left Tracks Across the Sky" HM - Lorraine Jeffery - "After This"
1st - Joseph Jablonski - "A Poem About Dragons For My Son" 2nd - Peter LaBerge - "Homosexual Panic" 3rd - Wendell Hawken -"Basketball Game" HM - James Huneycutt - "An Adirondack Cabin Retreat"
1st - Elizabeth Black - "Issa's Cricket" 2nd - Richard Stimac - "Ares" 3rd - Erin Wells - "A Small Observation" HM - Laura Bobrow - "Almost Lost at the Carnival"
1st - Erin Wells - "Someone on a Journey" 2nd - April Asbury - "The British Tour" 3rd - Claudia Kessel - Menorrhagia HM - Greg Friedmann - "Eve's Complaint'
1st - Rich Follett - "crt" 2nd - Elizabeth Spragins - "Color Blind" 3rd - Diana Woodcock - "Three Little Neighbors in Qatar" HM - Yahney-Marie Sangare - "Harlem Midnight"
1st - Felicity Sheehy - "First Flight" 2nd - Peter LaBerge - "Polari" 3rd - Wendell Hawken - "Crustaceous Species: Having a Hard Time" HM - April Asbury - "Her Handwriting"
2023-2024 Individually Sponsored Categories
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1st - Eric Forsbergh - "Free Speech Privilege" 2nd - James Huneycutt - "You Cannot Marry Roger Vadim, He's Far Too Dead" 3rd - Kindra McDonald - "Teaching Wilderness Survivor School at Junior Ranger Camp" HM - April Asbury - "Mother Lays Down the Law"
1st - Erin Wells - "If Windows Remain" 2nd - June Goodenough - "Evoked by George Sotter's 'A Snowy Night'" 3rd - Not Awarded
1st - Greg Friedmann - "No Deus No Machina" 2nd - Sarah Kohrs - "Sieved with Galium Aparine" 3rd - Steve Knepper - "Metal Love Song" HM - Maggie Saunders - "White"
1st - Sarah Kohrs - "A New Home: One Woman’s Belief in Ambience" 2nd - Anna Isabella Fratarcangello - "Beauty Breaking Bad" 3rd - Adele Gardner - "Ode to the Dishwasher" HM - Erin Wells - "Variable Stars"
1st - Donna Isaac - "Coming Home" 2nd - Amasa Maleski - "Catch and Release" 3rd - Lorraine Jeffery - "The Other Book" HM - Carlin Corsino - "What Will I Do Without You?"
1st - Anna Evas - "A Modern Venus of Willendorf" 2nd - Erin Wells - "Still Life" 3rd - Diana Kincannon - "Hospice Nurse"
2023-2024 Poetry Society of Virginia Members Only Categories
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1st - James Huneycutt - "The Bats of Rabat" 2nd - Ken Hines - "Obit Postscript" 3rd - Carolyn Mathews - "In Praise of June Bugs" HM - Nicola McGoff - "Parenting"
1st - Mark Fryburg - "Dunes" 2nd - Peter LaBerge - "California Avenue" 3rd - Claudia Kessel - "Disappearing in the Panhandle" HM - Sarah Ann Winn - "At Mrs. Leihey's Table"
1st - Patsy Asuncion - "Habits of American Habitat" 2nd - Chris Rhodes - "The South" 3rd - Diane Melby - "The Year the Trees Fell"
1st - Bill Ayres - "We Share the World" 2nd - Aaliyah Anderson - "Today, You will" 3rd - Chapman Frazier - "The Longing" HM - Sarah Ann Winn - "Magritte Makes A Cameo"
1st - Eric Sundquist - "walking meditation" 2nd - Rebecca Lilly - "shadows the same tone" 3rd - Not Awarded
1st - Erin Wells - "Incantation" 2nd - Deborah Baxter - "The Mountain Has a Fever" 3rd - Gail Giewont - "Fairy Tales" HM - Sarah Kohrs - "A World Refocused"
1st - Erin Wells - "A Prayer for Broken Things" 2nd - Clauda Kessel - "Inversion" 3rd - Peter LaBerge - "White Orchid" HM - Sarah Kohrs - "Bienvenidos, Mundi"
1st - Peter LaBerge - "The Indisputable" 2nd - Erin Wells - "Thanksgiving at the Self-Checkout" 3rd - Chapman Frazier - "The Flowering of the Dead" HM - Sarah Kohrs - "The OKness We Bring"
1st - Jerri Hardesty - "Heifer" 2nd - Terra Walker - "Sake" 3rd - Marjorie Cenese - "Sheltered" HM - Adele Gardner - "Ray of Light"
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