PAST CONTEST WINNERS
2020-2021 PSV CONTEST WINNERS
Category 1 Edgar Allan Poe Contest
Judge: Gregory Donovan
1st place: “Letting Go”
Donna Isaac Inver Grove Hts., MN
2nd place: “Domestic Drama on Lake Iroquois”
M. Lee Alexander
Williamsburg, VA
3rd Place: “Love Poem for Chieko*: with cento”
William Prindle
Charlottesville, VA
Hon. Mention: “The House of Metaphor”
Pamela Cranston
Oakland, CA
Category 2 Sarah Lockwood Memorial
Judge: Thomas Yuill
1st Place: “More”
Julia Travers
Gordonsville, VA
2nd Place: “Marry Me”
Edward Wright Haile Champlain, VA
3rd Place: “A Parting Shot” Ruth Holzer Herndon, VA
Honorable Mention: “A Rock for the Hill” Elizabeth Spragins
Fredericksburg, VA
Category 3 Bess Gresham
Judge: Catherine Fletcher
1st Place: “Virtual, in This Lonely Space”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place: “By a Kenyan Campfire”
Sarah E N Kohrs
Mt Jackson VA
3rd Place: “Radiant Lake”
William Prindle
Charlottesville, VA
Category 4 Carleton Drewry Memorial
Judge: Lisa Russ Spaar
1st – Sophia Fourquet
The Joy of Paintings
2nd – Madison Borer
Adjectives
3rd – Molly Puckett
Bitter Honey
Honorable Mention – Bryce Yates
Stay
Category 5 Brodie Herndon Memorial
Judge: Nathan Richardson
1st Place: “University Village: Etudes”
William Prindle
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place : “The Navajo Code Talkers”
Jerri Hardesty
Brierfield, AL
3rd Place: “The Picture Not Published”
Claudia Gary
Reston, VA
Honorable Mention: “The Bridge”
Dennis H. Pillsbury
Williamsburg, VA
Category 6 Nancy Byrd Turner Memorial
Judge: Henry Hart
1st place: “Amyrah Gray Young: Redwing, 1888”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny
2nd place: “Chinatown Sonnet”
JM Jordan
Alexandria, Virginia
Category 7 Cenie Moon Prize
Judge: Luisa Igloria
1st Place: “Oracle of Bronzeville Meets Herself”
Erin Newton Wells Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place: “Taco King”
Donna Isaac
Inver Grove Hts., MN
3rd Place: “Rowing Lessons”
Linda Mitchell Manassas, VA
Category 8 Judah, Sarah, Grace and Tom Memorial
Judge: James Wilson
1st Place: “Pretense”
Ellaraine Lockie
Sunnydale, CA
2nd Place: “Where Should I Walk”
Tom Jenkins
Chester, VA
*2nd Place: “Explode Like Lightning Striking”
Pamela Brothers Denyes
Virginia Beach, VA
3rd Place: “Ashes Remain”
Chaya Nachum
Brooklyn, NY
Honorable Mention: “Question of Castaways”
Crickyt J. Meyer Chesapeake, VA
Category 9 Ada Sanderson Memorial
Judge: Ron Smith
1st Place: “A Thing Nearly Perfect”
Sharon Ackerman
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place: “Looking at the Floor at Saratoga Friends Meeting House”
Andy Fogle
Saratoga Springs, NY
3rd Place: “September Apples”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny Honorable Mention: “Morels” Stuart Gunter Schuyler, VA Honorable Mention: “April”
Amanda Sue Creasey
Chester, VA Honorable Mention: “April Fancy”
Tony Linwood Gentry
North Chesterfield, VA Honorable Mention: “In the Long Suffering for Water”
Erin Newton Wells Charlottesville, VA Honorable Mention: “Strawberry Fields Forever”
Ellie White
Charlottesville, VA
Category 10 Charlotte Wise Memorial Judge: Rita Quillen
1st Place- “Vernal Equinox”
Sharon Ackerman
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place – “I Want You to Come Back But Only If You’re Full” Coral Kendall Norfolk, VA
3rd Place- “Death, Burning & Service”
Andy Fogle
Saratoga Springs, NY Honorable Mention – “Sanctuary”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Category 11 Robert S. Sergeant Memorial
Judge: Mike Maggio
1st Place: “Weathering” Rebecca K. Leet Arlington, VA
2nd Place: “In a Dogwood Tree”
Deborah H. Baxter
Chesapeake, VA
3rd Place: “Irrepressible Wren”
Henrietta Dahlstrom
Falls Church, VA
Category 12 Anne Spencer Memorial
Judge: John Hoppenthaler
1st Place: “Ode to the Young Construction Worker Who Once Placed a Loaded Nail Gun against His Forehead and Pulled the Trigger.” Robert J. Keeler Vashon, WA
2nd Place: “Aftermath”
Katherine M. Gotthardt
Bristow, VA
3rd Place: “Formed like an Etching.”
Sarah E N Kohrs
Mt Jackson VA Honorable Mention: “Snowfall, January 19, 2008: Viewing Richard C. Isner’s ‘Cold Storage’ After My Uncle’s Death.” Adele Gardner Newport News, VA
Category 13 Handy Andy Prize
Judge: Bill Glose
First Place to “An Invitation to the Masked Corona Ball”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Second Place to “The Great Toilet Paper Caper”
Sharon Canfield Dorsey
Williamsburg, VA Third Place: “Office Hours”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny Honorable Mention: “New Arrival”
Hannah Peters Fairfax, VA
Category 14 Elizabeth Neuwirth Memorial
Judge: Suzanne Rhodes
1st Place: “Day of Wind” based on Andrew Wyeth’s Pentecost
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place: “Garien Swift: Redwing, 1888”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny
3rd Place: “Christina’s World” based on Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World
Doris Edmund
Palmyra, Virginia
Category 15 Laura Day Boggs Bolling Memorial
Judge: Sue Corbett
1st: “Night is a Dark Unguarded Grove”
J. M. Jordan
Alexandria, Virginia
2nd place: “The Summer of the Secret Stones”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
3rd: “Frog Prince”
Donna Isaac Inver Grove Hts., MN Honorable Mention: “Natural Imagination”
Leo Emerson
Marina Del Rey, CA
Category 16 Joe Pendleton Campbell Memorial
Judge: Dr. Carrie Shipers
1st Place: “She Whispers How It Ends”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
2nd Place: “When They Left the Cottage Behind”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny
3rd Place: “Bessie”
Greg Friedmann
Ashburn VA
Category 17 Raymond Levi Haislip Memorial
Judge: Dr. Kathleen D. Decker
1st Place: “Catheter Ablation”
Claudia Gary
Reston, VA
2nd Place: “New and Repurposed Words”
Joan Ellen Casey
Newport News, VA
3rd Place: “My Right Hand Man”
Brigitte Dole
Sacramento, CA
Honorable Mention: “Hinge Between Two Sticks”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Category 18 Elizabeth J. Urquhart Memorial
Judge: Cesca Janece Waterfield
1st Place: “Thunderstorm on the Zambezi” Diana Woodcock Midlothian, VA
2nd Place: “Bem-Vinda a Florianópolis”
M. Lee Alexander
Williamsburg, VA
3rd Place: “Thimble Shoal Light”
Hank Thompson
Norfolk, VA
Honorable Mention: “Bear Clouds”
Ruth Keally Athens, GA
Honorable Mention: “Personal Salvation”
James Garrett
Williamsburg, VA
Honorable Mention: “Ash Monday”
Linda Kennedy Partee
Williamsburg, VA
Category 19 Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial: New Voices
Judge: Sofia Starnes
1st Place: “Resistance”
Drury Wellford
Richmond, VA
2nd place: “Old China”
Anne Metcalf
Alexandria, VA
3rd Place: “We be praying people”
Trilla Ramage
Hampton, VA
Honorable Mention: “The Hunting Clouds”
Mac Mestayer
Williamsburg, Va
Category 20 Honoring Fatherhood
Judge: Margaret MacKinnon
1st place: “Dutch and Dad” Ruth Holzer Herndon VA
2nd place: “Her Eyes Lit Amber Like a Fox”
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny
Third place: “My Father Takes Me to the County Fair”
Sharon Ackerman
Charlottesville, VA
Honorable mention: “Rabbit Skin Glue”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Category 21 Ekphrastic Poetry Award
Judge: Terry Cox-Joseph
First Place: “When all the World,” based on a photo, Hands at Cuevas de las Manos
Sarah E N Kohrs
Mt Jackson VA
Second Place: “Night and Sleep,” Mary Lizzie Macomber painting
Adele Gardner Newport News, VA
Third Place: “Wonder,” (Alice’s Adventures)
Katharyn Howd Machan
Ithaca, Ny
Hon. Mention: “Against My Will,”
Michele Privette
Norfolk, VA
Hon. Mention: “Old Man in Sorrow,”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Hon. Mention: “Devotion and Desire”
Drury Wellford
Richmond, VA
Category 22 Emma Gray Trigg Memorial
Judge: Bob Arthur
1st Place: “These Birds” Barbara Leary Purcellville, VA
2nd Place: “Matinee Musicale” Ruth Holzer Herndon VA
3rd Place: “The Wind wails the tale to the woman who needs to hear” Angela Dribben Java, VA Honorable Mention: ““Arabian Desert Autumn”” Diana Woodcock Midlothian, VA
Category 23 Karma Dean Ogden
Judge: Nicole Tong
1st place: “Children Picking Raspberries”
Sharon Ackerman
Charlottesville, VA
2nd: “Off the Path”
April J. Asbury
Pulaski, VA
3rd: “Recent Discovery, Herculaneum”
Erin Newton Wells
Charlottesville, VA
Honorable Mention: “Honeybee” Ruth Holzer Herndon VA
Category 24 Loretta Dunn Hall Memorial
Judge: Nathaniel Perry
1st place Winner: “After”
Julia Travers
Gordonsville, VA
2nd place: “The Bent Fork” Ruth Holzer Herndon VA 3rd place: “The Diastole’s Diaspora”
Michele Privette
Norfolk, VA
Category 25 Undergraduate Poetry Award
Judge: Jeffrey Hecker
First Place: “Do You Speak Spanish?”
Poet name not published at the poet's request
Edgar Allan Poe Contest Award Winner
Judge: Gregory Donovan
1st place: “Letting Go”
Donna Isaac Inver Grove Hts., MN
When wind in pied trees sighs
they have not long
their hold on gold.
A nun said "Lost time is never found."
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2020-2021 PSV STUDENT CONTEST WINNERS
Category 1/Grades 3-4
Sue Corbet
1st – Josee Winston-Feder
Sister Brook
2nd – Serafina Record
Bald Eagle
3rd – Hadley Spekke
The First Snow
Category 2/Grades 5-6
Alice Mergler
1st – Ariana Blake
Fool’s Gold
2nd – Louise Schuck
Empty
3rd – Sarah Chiramel
Coping with Covid
Honorable Mention – David (Trey) Cote
I Remember
Category 3/Grades 7-8
Gail Giewont
1st – Kestrel Linehan
Abecedarian For A Sunrise
2nd – Jiwan Kim
A Korean Pear Has Walked
3rd – Jada Riguez
The Dull Whale
Honorable Mention – Eva Crousillat
Self-Portrait
Honorable Mention – Lizzy Frost
Nothing
Category 4/Grades 9-10
Rich Follet
1st – Sophia Fourquet
The Joy of Paintings
2nd – Madison Borer
Adjectives
3rd – Molly Puckett
Bitter Honey
Honorable Mention – Bryce Yates
Stay
Category 5/Grades 11-12
Zeina Azzam
1st – Serrina Zou
Gendered
Fish Harvest at the Wadsworth
2nd – Rachel Brooks
Atheneum
3rd – Ye Zin Cho
Living a New Decade
Honorable Mention – Mac Suskind
Not So Different
Category 6/Jenkins Prize
Elizabeth Spragins
1st – Laci Powell
Of the Things She Creates
2nd – Jacklyn Vandermel
Elegy with Marksman
3rd – Collin Shiflett
The Wolf’s Echo
Category 7/The Poetry Society Prize
Jacqueline Jules
1st – Claudia Martin
Little Red
2nd – Elizabeth Bonilla
Creature of the Dark
3rd – Alexandra Blake
The Stranger
Category 8/VA Student Prize
Grace Cavalieri
1st – Collin Shiflett
Your Color Wheel
2nd – Helen Do
Flying in Poetry
3rd – Amira Allen
Punishment
Honorable Mention – Erica Worthington
Mixtures and Blends