WINNERS’ LIST
54th Annual Mid-South Poetry Festival
Sponsored by Poetry Society of Tennessee
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Total number of poems entered: 703
**Best of the Fest (Chosen from all First Place Winners)
“A Time to Dream” by Lee Pelham Cotton
Contest #1 - The Benefactors' Awards (53 entries)
1st - "Night Watchman" - Jim Barton; 2nd - "Where I Lived Then" - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd - "What Remains" - Jim Barton; 1H - "A Life Not Chosen" - Michael R. Denington; 2H - "Touched" - Pat Jordan; 3H - "Lena Mae Rocking from Her Front Porch to Heaven" – Russell H. Strauss
Contest #2 - Poet's Field Day (47)
1st - "Porch Swing" - Jim Barton; 2nd – “Leonard Woolf Let's Go" - Randall G. Stoker; 3rd - The Ides of March" - Frances Cowden; 1H –“Saying Goodbye to the Year Just Past" - Jeanine Mah; 2H - “Life Oak" - Jim Barto; 3H - "Southern Rhythms" - Betty Heidelberger
Contest #3 - Lyric Challenge (19)
1st - "Roll On" - Benjamin A. Dugger; 2H - "C'mon Luke" - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd - "Who You Hushabying, Henry” - Verna Lee Hinegardner; 1H - "Keep on Buildin’ Those Bins” - Lucille M. Wilson; 2H - "Music From Blue Mountains" - Sara Gipson
3H- "Drivin' With Tears in My Eyes" - Diane "Dee" Bowlin
Contest #4 - The Frances P. Dennignton Memorial Award (34)
1st - "The Dog That Could Not Walk" - Trudy Wells; 2H - "Twilight Conflagration" - Lee Pelham Cotton; 3H - "Downstream" - Lucille M. Wilson; 1H - "A Dry Sermon" - Tommy Little; 2H - "Cold Mountain" - Pat Jordan; 3H- "In Her Hands" - Vera Ogden Bakker
Contest #5 - The Poetry Society of Tennessee NE Award (23)
1st - "Chinese New Year" - Jim Barton; 2nd - "Past the Baobab Tree" - Lucille M. Wilson; 3rd - "Walking Israel" - Lynnie Mirvis
Contest #6 - The Joan T. Strauss Memorial Award (8)
1st - "Blues Singer" - Laura Loughridge; 2nd - "American Idol" - Jim Barton; 3r d – “Casual Muse" - Jerri Hardesty
Contest #7 -- The Frances Mah Memorial Award (44)
1st - "Critical Absence" – Benjamin A. Dugger; 2nd- "Peeking in the Window" - Kathy Larson; 3rd - "Celebrating the Fourth” – Lucille M. Wilson; 1H - "A Summer" - Sarah Hull Gurley; 2H - "Forgotten Memories" - Lynnie Mirvis; 3H - "Drought" - Jim Barton
Contest #8 - The Bobbie Droebeck Memorial Award (11)
1st - "The bus is destroyed" - Catherine Moran; 2nd - "Rainy Sunday" - Jerri Hardesty; 3rd - 'Rosa and Buses" - Laura Loughridge; 1H - "Bus Concert" - Susan Levasseur; 2H - "Destiny Rides a Bus” - Jeanine Mah; 3H - "My Baby Shower on the Bus" - Babs Moore
Contest #9 - Florence M. Gibbs Memorial Award (19)
1st - "A Taste of the Story" - Catherine Moran; 2nd - "Comfort Companions" - Vera Ogden Bakker; 3rd - "Food For Thought" - Dena R. Gorrell; 1H - "There it is again" - Susan Levasseur; 2H - "Life Begins On Page One" - Jeanine Mah; 3H - "Book of Knowledge" - Russell H. Strauss
Contest #10 - The Rev. Melvin & Ruth Brown Memorial Award (10)
1st - "Feeding the Flock" - Lee Pelham Cotton; 2nd - "Invitation to the Choir" - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd - "Sunday Dinner with the Preacher" - Michael R. Denington; 1H - "A Country Preacher's Gift" - Sara Gipson; 2H - "Walking on Water" - Carol Reiley; 3H - "In His Presence" - Jerri Hardesty
Contest #11 - The Sarah Catherine Anderson Memorial Award (15)
1st - "November Reverberations" - Benjamin A. Dugger; 2nd - "Words of a Song" - Diane "Dee" Bowlin; 3rd - "West Main Street Rental - Kutztown, PA" - Caroline Sposto; 1H - "Old Friends" - Jerri Hardesty; 2H - "Banquet" - Pat Jordan
Contest #12 - The Jo Elliotte Memorial Award (11)
1st - "Rush Hour Stroke" - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd - "My Mother Had Her Naughty Side” - Jean Marie Purcell; 3rd - "Dream Deferred" - Randall G. Stoker; HM - "Poetry Tag 1" - Jerri Hardesty
Contest #13 - Sarah Gurley & Pat Crocker Double-Judged Award (15)
Pat's Results
1st - "Peter's Predicament" - D. Beecher Smith, I; 2nd - "Running Buddies" - Jim Barton; 3rd - "In the Interim" - Catherine Moran; HM - "A New Day Dawning" - Jeanine Mah
Sarah's Results
1st – “In the Interim” – Catherine Moran; 2nd – “Peter's Predicament”– D.B.Smith, II; 3rd – “When” – Jim Collier; HM – “Fences” – Jerri Hardesty
Contest #14 - The Epigram Challenge Award (16)
1st - "The Serpent's Trail" - Jim Barton; HM - "To Dorothy Parker" - Lynnie Mirvis
Contest #15 - Florence Rogers Tuck Memorial Award (22)
1st - “Greening the Emptiness” - DeSha Dye Montgomery; 2nd - “Leather Coat” - Malu Graham; 3rd - “Seasons of Love” - Frances Cowden; 1H - “All That Remains” - Jerri Hardesty; 2H - “Self Medicating” - Eileen Spears; 3H – “In Memory of Faye Williams Jones” - Sara Gipson
Contest #16 - The Katie Akin Honorary Award (12)
1st - "Organ Concert" - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd - "Funny" - Jerri Hardesty; 3rd - "Ode to Jerry and his Friendship" - D. B. Smith, IIl; HM - "The Lesson" - John Ottley, Jr.
Contest #17 - Glenda Tuck Mechtel Award (23)
1st – “Claire the Near-sighted Dance Hall Girl” - Jim Barton; 2nd – “Camel” - Jean Marie Purcell; 3rd - “There was a young doctor named Brown” - J. Pompford (Pete) Harris; 1H – “A Separate Place”; 3H – “Shocked” - Betty Heidelberger
Contest #18 - The Pat Crocker Award (6)
1st- "Dad's Jury Notice" - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd - "Building the Treehouse" - Catherine Moran
Contest #19 - The Malra Treece Memorial Awards (22)
1st - "Neighbors" - Benjamin A. Dugger; 2nd - "A reason to speak" - Catherine Moran; 3rd -- "Dialectic" - Pat Jordan; 1H--"Street Wisdom: The Earnestness of Being Important" - D. B. Smith, II; 2H-- "Conversation with Mr. Franklin" - Russell H. Strauss; 3H-- "Turning Pages" - Tommy Little
Contest #20 - The Cumberland Award (31)
1st- "Earth Song" - Vera Ogden Bakker; 2nd - "Leavening" - Janice Hornburg; 3rd -"A Visit to Ford’s Theatre, Sept., 1989” - Dena R. Gorrell; 1H - "Icicles on the Windshield - Cowden; 2H - "Whirligig” - Tommy Little; 3H - "Night-Blooming Cereus" - John W. Crawford
Contest #21 - The Ophelia Dunn Moore Memorial Award (36)
1st - "War Widow" - Malu Graham; 2nd - "Horizon” - Tommy Little; 3rd - "Icarus Ascending" - D. B. Smith, II; 1H - "Reciprocity" - Jerri Hardesty; 2H - "When I Talk To Myself" - Jim Collier; 3H - "Breaking Camp" - John Ottley, Jr.
Contest #22 - The Ruth Boyd Pell Memorial Award (17)
1st - “A Time to Dream” - Lee Pelham Cotton; 2nd - “Autumn Arrives via Canyon Wall" - Carol Dee Meeks; 3rd - "Don’t Undersell the Small and Quiet” - Lucille M. Wilson; 1H - “Midnight Robber” – R. Strauss; 2nd HM - “Messages” - Lynnie Mirvis; 3H - “When We Meet Again” - Dena R. Gorrell; 4H (tie) - “Conundrum” - D. Beecher Smith, II; and “The Wooded Path” - Vera Ogden Bakker
Contest #23 - The Orville Hancock Memorial Award (15)
1st - "Pinch Hitting" - Benjamin A. Dugger; 2nd - "The Last Inning" - Janice Hornburg; 3rd - "How the Press & I Disappeared" - Russell H. Strauss; 1H - "At Bat" - Catherine Moranl 2H - "Stolen News" - Sara Gipson; 3H - "Slowly Pitched" - Rose Klix
Contest #24 - The Sam Saxx Memorial Award (17)
1st - "Afghanistan Farewell" - Verna Lee Hinegardner; 2nd - "Tumbleweed Dreams" - Jim Barton; 3rd - "The Ice Cream Truck Departs" - Russell H. Strauss; 1H – “Homecoming Confession" - D. B. Smith, II; 2H (tie) - "A Silent Spring" – Jeanine Mah; "Simple Request" - Vera O. Bakker; 3H - "Be With Me" - Diane "Dee" Bowlin
Contest #25, The T. A. Dugger Jr. Memorial Award (8)
1st - "At the Grave of Billy the Kid" - Jim Barton; 2nd- "Long Beach, CA, December 29, 1954 (AP)" - Caroline Sposto
Contest #26 - The Rose Klix Award (11)
1st - "Just Wait" - Jim Collier; 2nd - "Discovery" - Jerri Hardesty; 3rd - "Another July 4th" - Jim Barton; 1H - "Parapet" - Caroline Sposto; 2H - "Secrets" - Vera O. Bakker; 3H - "Mama Says" - Russell H. Strauss
Contest #27 - The Anne George Memorial Award (25)
1st - "Waiting For The Moon" - Frances Cowden; 2nd - "In the Smothering Arms of the Vines" - Jim Barton; 3rd - "Oh Hell, Is This Hell?" - Jim Collier; 1H - "The Grimmest Reaper" - Michael R. Denington; 2H - "Jockey" - Russell H. Strauss;
3H - "Only a Game" - Pat Jordan
Contest #28. The Ann Carolyn Cates Picture Your Poetry Award (22)
1st - “The Man With An Umbrella” - Jeanine Mah; 2nd - “Biloxi Lighthouse” - Jerri Hardesty; 3rd - "Gerta Baldwin" - Elizabeth Howard; 1H - “Visiting the Mermaids” - Russell H. Strauss; 2H - "Tete a Tete" - Caroline Sposto; 3H - “The Exchange” - Linda C. Zebert
Contest #29 - The Anthony V. Zarlengo Memorial Award (6)
1st - "Memo to the Candidate"- Jim Barton; 2nd - ”Madame What's-her-name” - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd – “A Balanced Budget” - Sara Gipson; HM – “Ten Amendments” - Jerri Hardesty
Contest #30 - The Arkansas Poet Laureate Award (5)
1st – “Barter Day in Tennessee History Class, 1955” - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd – “Growing up in Tennessee” - Lynnie Mirvis; 3rd – “Harmless Fantasy” - Jerri Hardesty
Contest #31 - The Ruby Storm Pirate Days Award (9)
1st – “Pirated Away” - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd - “Pirate Play” - Sara Gipson; 3rd – “Buried Treasure” - Sarah Hull Gurley; 1H – “The Empty Boat” - Malu Graham; 2H – “Pirate Dreams” - D. B. Smith, II
Contest #32 The Dorothy Virginia Roden Memorial Award (35)
1st - “From the Hip” - Sheri Pattillo; 2nd - “A Clean Break from Assisted Living” - Rose Klix; 3rd - “Undone Everything” - Amy Taylor; 1H – “Written in Stone” - Jim Barton; 2H – “Start Over” - Vera O. Bakker; 3rd HM – “Temple in Orange Season” - Sharon M. Fox
Contest #33 - The Frieda Beasley Dorris Memorial Award (8)
1st – “Porch Talk” - Sarah Hull Gurley; 2nd - "Floating Down to Memphis, 1937" - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd – “Memphis in May, 2011” - Frances Cowden
Contest #34 – The Winifred Carley Sellers Award (31)
1st - “Love and the Curvature of the Earth” - Jim Barton; 2nd – “Meeting my mother” - Catherine Moran; 3rd – “The Day the Papers Came” - Lucille M. Wilson; 1H – “Fujita-Four”- Janice Hornburg; 2H – “What You Recall” - Laura Loughridge; 3H – “Scene Above” - Vera Ogden Bakker
Contest #35 - The Delta Poet's Award (25)
1st - "The Revolution's End: Colbert's Raid on Arkansas Post" - Jim Barton; 2nd - "Magnolia Mockingbirds" - Sandra O. Hancock; 3rd - "A Cedar Comb" - Sara Gipson; 1H - "War (and Peace)" - Laura Loughbridge; 2H - "Forgotten" - Sarah Hull Gurley; 3H - "at last...." - Frances Cowden
Congratulations! Thanks to all participants!
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