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2007 Winners List

Dancing Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Artists Embassy International

 

We had 190 poets entering 538 poems from 34 states and 8 foreign countries

 

All winners are invited to read their poem at the podium. Each category is of equal merit and listed alphabetically.

Grand Prize Winners: $100 each plus poem choreographed, costumed, danced and videotaped for the winner

Won’t Wear My Mama’s Mumu: Bill Reinman, Oakdale, CA

Pegasus: Ruth Wildes Schuler, Novato, CA

Birth of Writing: Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Tehama, CA

First Prize Winners: $50 each

Why We Can’t Hear Them: Gretchen R. Fletcher, Fort Lauderdale, Fl

What the Farm Wife Painted: Julia Paul, Manchester, CT

Root Woman: Kay Renz, Santa Rosa, CA

The Old Man On the Bench: Marcia E. Schechinger, Council Bluffs, IA

Weaving the Fifth World: Andrea L. Watson, Taos, NM

Second Prize Winners: $25 each

Monarch On My Window Pain: Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI

Day at the Beach: Helen Cho, Venice, CA

Skydivers: Susan A. Coons, North Bend, OR

The Moon From Kakadu National Park: Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA

Flaçons: Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA

I Am a Fado Song: Louis Giron, Kansas City, MO

Apotheosis: Indigo Moor, Rancho Cordova, CA

Painting the Dance: Julia Paul, Manchester, CT

Urginea Maritima: Martin Steele, Delray Beach, FL

Campasantos: Andrea L. Watson, Taos, NM

Third Prize Winners: $10 each

A Trip to the Grocers: David C. Anderson, Lincoln, CA

From San Francisco to Assisi: Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA

Geechee Fishamon: Carol Saul Bayma, Norfolk, VA

Hands: Dina Britton, Portland, OR

Aborigine: Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI

Bird Girl of Savannah: Noble Collins, Payson, AZ

Labyrinth Walk: Lourdes Costales, Alameda, CA

Listening to Congolese Singer, Sam Mangwana:  Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA

The Fibonacci Series: Judith Goldhaber, Berkeley, CA

Seasons Marked by the Pear Tree: Fay Williams Jones, North Little Rock, AR

Proposal on a Plate: Oango Island, Guinea-Bissau: Allison Joseph, Carbondle, IL

Tibetan Prayer Wheels: Laurie Kurts, APO (US Military overseas)

What Passes On: Laurie Kurts, APO (US Military overseas)

1554.8: Erica Lehrer, Houston, TX

Mary Poppins Tries to Fly from an Airport in the States: Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY

From the Ashes: Florence I. Miller, Fremont, CA

Tap-Root: Indigo Moor, Rancho Cordova, CA

Dancing in Portugal, 1966: Gayle Portnow, Camden, ME

What Do You Remember From Before the War?: Susan Rich, Seattle, WA

The One-Winged Angel: Lori Shannon, Manning, IA

My Father’s Woodpile: Nick Sweet, Taft, OK

Down the Steps of Monmartre, 1936: Corine Topal, Redondo Beach, CA

Sunday Morning: Annie Stewart Ueling, Ely, MN

Well: Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Tehama, CA

On Orinoco Shore: Sharon K. Wieland, Ann Arbor, MI

 

 

 


Special Awards granted by Artists Embassy International at the 2007 Poetic Dance Festival focused on multi-lingual/multi-ethnic achievement in the field of poetry.

Cynthia Briant for Poets Lane Website
Mary Rudge, Poet Laureate of Alameda who works diligently for multi-cultural/ multi-lingual events
Paradise, a poet of Oakland, CA who has worked at translating and exposing Swahili poetry
Carolyn Wing Greenlee, past Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA, writes of growing up Chinese-American
Angela Reisse, Philippino/American poet from Alameda, CA
Nina Sorano, for her support and publication of bilingual poetry
Jerry Lange, The first American black woman to be in broadcasting production in many areas of poetry and the arts
Redwood Empire Chinese Association for their production and sponsorship of the Annual Multi-lingual Poetry Reading each August. Receiving personal certificates were Nancy Wang, David Chung, Phi Phi Dang, Shown Fong, Anna Kong, Azy Heydon and Judy Hardin Cheung.
Jack Hirschman, current Poet Laureate of San Francisco for his multi-lingual writings and publications
Yuk Wor Lee of San Francisco for his bilingual poetry in English and Chinese
Toshimi Horiuchi from Japan for his bilingual poetry in English and Japanese
Benjamin R. Yuzon, President of United Poets Laureate International for his continual service to bring poets together and share their poetry and cultures with poets and audiences around the world. He also writes poetry in English and Pampangan.
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez for his Spanish and English poetry published in anthologies and on the internet. He is also a lecturer on pre-Columbian Mexican Poetry
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