tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17730929134338504352024-02-08T09:12:13.622-08:00Poetry Society of TennesseeThis blog is serving currently as the website for the Poetry Society of Tennessee. Also, on this blog members find information they need to participate in upcoming PST events and contests. We welcome new members.Poetry Society of Tennesseehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991160253743035555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773092913433850435.post-77649107357469649452011-10-10T12:03:00.001-07:002011-10-10T12:27:01.500-07:00MID-SOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL WINNERS' LISTWINNERS’ LIST<br />54th Annual Mid-South Poetry Festival<br />Sponsored by Poetry Society of Tennessee<br />Saturday, October 1st, 2011<br /><br />Total number of poems entered: 703<br /><br />**Best of the Fest (Chosen from all First Place Winners)<br /> “A Time to Dream” by Lee Pelham Cotton<br /><br />Contest #1 - The Benefactors' Awards (53 entries)<br />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<br /><br />Contest #2 - Poet's Field Day (47) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #3 - Lyric Challenge (19) <br />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<br />3H- "Drivin' With Tears in My Eyes" - Diane "Dee" Bowlin<br /><br />Contest #4 - The Frances P. Dennignton Memorial Award (34) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #5 - The Poetry Society of Tennessee NE Award (23)<br />1st - "Chinese New Year" - Jim Barton; 2nd - "Past the Baobab Tree" - Lucille M. Wilson; 3rd - "Walking Israel" - Lynnie Mirvis<br /><br />Contest #6 - The Joan T. Strauss Memorial Award (8) <br />1st - "Blues Singer" - Laura Loughridge; 2nd - "American Idol" - Jim Barton; 3r d – “Casual Muse" - Jerri Hardesty<br /><br />Contest #7 -- The Frances Mah Memorial Award (44) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #8 - The Bobbie Droebeck Memorial Award (11) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #9 - Florence M. Gibbs Memorial Award (19) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #10 - The Rev. Melvin & Ruth Brown Memorial Award (10) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #11 - The Sarah Catherine Anderson Memorial Award (15) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #12 - The Jo Elliotte Memorial Award (11) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #13 - Sarah Gurley & Pat Crocker Double-Judged Award (15)<br />Pat's Results<br />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<br /><br />Sarah's Results<br />1st – “In the Interim” – Catherine Moran; 2nd – “Peter's Predicament”– D.B.Smith, II; 3rd – “When” – Jim Collier; HM – “Fences” – Jerri Hardesty<br /><br />Contest #14 - The Epigram Challenge Award (16) <br />1st - "The Serpent's Trail" - Jim Barton; HM - "To Dorothy Parker" - Lynnie Mirvis<br /><br />Contest #15 - Florence Rogers Tuck Memorial Award (22) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #16 - The Katie Akin Honorary Award (12) <br />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.<br /><br />Contest #17 - Glenda Tuck Mechtel Award (23) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #18 - The Pat Crocker Award (6) <br />1st- "Dad's Jury Notice" - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd - "Building the Treehouse" - Catherine Moran<br /><br />Contest #19 - The Malra Treece Memorial Awards (22) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #20 - The Cumberland Award (31)<br />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<br /><br />Contest #21 - The Ophelia Dunn Moore Memorial Award (36) <br />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.<br /><br />Contest #22 - The Ruth Boyd Pell Memorial Award (17) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #23 - The Orville Hancock Memorial Award (15) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #24 - The Sam Saxx Memorial Award (17) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #25, The T. A. Dugger Jr. Memorial Award (8) <br />1st - "At the Grave of Billy the Kid" - Jim Barton; 2nd- "Long Beach, CA, December 29, 1954 (AP)" - Caroline Sposto<br /><br />Contest #26 - The Rose Klix Award (11) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #27 - The Anne George Memorial Award (25) <br />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;<br />3H - "Only a Game" - Pat Jordan<br /><br />Contest #28. The Ann Carolyn Cates Picture Your Poetry Award (22) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #29 - The Anthony V. Zarlengo Memorial Award (6)<br />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<br /><br />Contest #30 - The Arkansas Poet Laureate Award (5) <br />1st – “Barter Day in Tennessee History Class, 1955” - Russell H. Strauss; 2nd – “Growing up in Tennessee” - Lynnie Mirvis; 3rd – “Harmless Fantasy” - Jerri Hardesty<br /><br />Contest #31 - The Ruby Storm Pirate Days Award (9) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #32 The Dorothy Virginia Roden Memorial Award (35) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #33 - The Frieda Beasley Dorris Memorial Award (8) <br />1st – “Porch Talk” - Sarah Hull Gurley; 2nd - "Floating Down to Memphis, 1937" - Russell H. Strauss; 3rd – “Memphis in May, 2011” - Frances Cowden<br /><br />Contest #34 – The Winifred Carley Sellers Award (31) <br />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<br /><br />Contest #35 - The Delta Poet's Award (25)<br />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<br /><br />Congratulations! Thanks to all participants!Poetry Society of Tennesseehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991160253743035555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773092913433850435.post-88487158833210909802011-03-28T15:35:00.000-07:002011-06-28T17:26:05.212-07:00THE BLOGGERThis blog has been replaced by a website.Poetry Society of Tennesseehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06991160253743035555noreply@blogger.com0