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 Angillys 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 Ive Never
Grace Rasmussen Manila IA Summer Symphony
Art Schwartz Rockville Centre, NY Skinny Old Man with Shopping Cart
Linda Schwartz Santa Barbara, CA My Fathers 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 Elinors 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 Fallfrom 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 Mourners 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
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