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Winning Poems for May 2007
Judge Bryan Appleyard

First Place
Refugee sproutings across the Continental
by Mike Keo
MiPok

"A poem with genuine originality that seems at ease with itself - it is not straining for expression. The rhythm insinuates itself into your mind and the imagery is cleverly restrained." --Bryan Appleyard

Second Place
The Sandwich Hour
by Yoly Calderon
New Cafe

"A very simple idea very well executed. This is a narrative poem, a story turned into verse with the lightest of touches, a delicacy that reflects the tentative anxieties of the encounter." --Bryan Appleyard

Third Place
In a City Made of Seaweed
by Dave Rowley
Desert Moon Review

"Luscious and dense language used to entangle imagery and associations. The poem creates a dazed hallucinated atmosphere." --Bryan Appleyard

Honorable Mention
It
by Carla Conley
The Critical Poet

"A dramatic meditation in being, this holds the reader with a serious of gentle surprises." --Bryan Appleyard

Honorable Mention
First Date
by Sally Arango Renata
South Carolina Writer's Workshop

"Like The Sandwich Hour, a narrative poem of great delicacy and precision." --Bryan Appleyard

Honorable Mention
Jaycee Beach
by Millard R. Howington
South Carolina Writer's Workshop

"A moment captured with something of the insouciance of Frank O'Hara." --Bryan Appleyard

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