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2010 Dancing Poetry Festival Contest Winners List

(In alphabetical order according to prize)

This year, 109 people entered our contest with 495 poems. Contestants came from 24 states plus Canada, France, Greece, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Spain. Please come to the Dancing Poetry Festival to hear the prize winning poems read by the poets, and the three Grand Prize winners danced by Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company on September 18, Noon-4:00 p.m. at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco, California. Thank you to everyone who participated.

 

Grand Prize:

Ana Elsner                            San Francisco, CA               Duet

                Art Schwartz                         Rockville Centre, NY           Getting to Your House

                Pat Tompkins                        San Mateo, CA                     The Labyrinth in the Garden

First Prize:

                Catherine Moran                  Little Rock, AR                     Texturing

                Tanya Joyce                         Emeryville, CA                      Shipyard Easter Sunday

                Ellen Peckham                       New York, NY                       Musings

                John Rowe                            Albany, CA                           Opened Once More

                Linda Schwartz                     Santa Barbara, CA               Remembering

                Jill L. Woolums                     Oakland, CA                         A Nod to Trisha Brown

Second Prize:

                Karen Braucher                    Portland, OR                         Amethyst

                Vicki F. Chavez                     Fort Myers FL                      Delhi Swim Club

                Margaret Chula                    Portland, OR                         Polishing Spoons

                Carol Frith                             Sacramento, CA                   The de Sade Papers

                Kenneth Homer                    Statesboro, GA                     Panegyric for Things That Do Not Cost $19.95

Joe Jeremy                             Sausalito, CA                        Song

Bruce Linton, MFT, Ph.D.  Berkeley, CA                         if there might be a god

                K.R. (Joe) Massingham       Chisholm, ACT, Australia  I’ve Never

                Grace Rasmussen                 Manila    IA                           Summer Symphony

                Art Schwartz                         Rockville Centre, NY           Skinny Old Man with Shopping Cart

                Linda Schwartz                     Santa Barbara, CA               My Father’s Hands                            

                Janet Ireland Trail                Greensboro, NC                    The Visit of the Gypsies

Third Prize:

                Claire J. Baker                       Pinole, CA                             Lyrical Lines and Three Last Words

                Carol Carpenter                    Livonia, MI                           Home from the Sea

                Margaret Chula                    Portland, OR                         Haunted

                Jabez W. Churchill               Ukiah, CA                              Still/Todavia

Caron Conner Davis            Allen, TX                               Haitian Rescue

Paul F. Cummins                   Santa Monica, CA               Meeting Dead Relatives

Simon Peter Eggertsen        Champlain, NY                      Elinor’s Quilts

                Janice P. Egry                       Verbank, NY                          Finding the Forest

Laverne Frith                        Sacramento, CA                   As Rilke Thought

Steven Gray                          San Francisco, CA               The Bicycle Wheel

Daryl Ross Halencak           Crowell, TX                           This Place

Ruth Hill                                Chetwynd, BC, Canada       Pas de Deux

Barbara L. Johnson              Atascadero, CA                   Mountain Lions

Tanya Joyce                         Emeryville, CA                      Ten Hand Dragon

                Jen Karentnick                      Miami Shores, FL Asparagus Announcing Fall—from a dish by Chef Nir Zook

                Helene Knox                         Oakland, CA                         Language, That Continuous Meadow

Maude Larke                         Dijon, France                        Two Hands

Jennifer Lemming                 Indianapolis, IN                    The Phoenix Express

Barbara Leon                        Aptos, CA                             The Poet Talks to the Hip Hop Dancer

Mary Loughran                    Alameda, CA                        Unwrapping the Gift

Maggy Morley                     Kensington, CA                   Acoustics

                Garrett Murphy                    Oakland, CA                         A Poem About Nothing

                Anne Ranasinghe               Colombo, Sri Lanka              Pelicans

Martin Steele                        Delray Beach, FL                  Can one Recover…?

                Charles F. Thielman             Eugene, OR                           Autumn on the Loading Dock

                Dale Tushman                      Brunswick, GA                     Mourner’s Kaddish

Lew Watts                             Washington D.C.                 La Cumparisita

                Maxine N. Williams              Sebastopol, CA                    Her Chunk of Heaven

                Barbara Wilde Wilson         San Rafael, CA                     In the Kathmandu Valley

            Diane G. Woodcock            Doha, Qatar                           Letting Go