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MPS 2013 Spring Contest Awards
1 - Mississippi Poetry Society 2013 Award
1st Place
Devil's Due
Wynne Huddleston
2nd Place
A Tradition of Comfort
Von Bourland
3rd Place
The Fan
J. Gorton Smith
HM1
Mississippi
Jim Booth
HM2
I am From Rocky Pastures
Sara Gipson
2 - MPS Past President's Award
1st Place
Dealing with the misfits
Catherine Moran
2nd Place
Small Things of Some Significance
Jeanine Mah
3rd Place
The Fiery Furnace
Jeanne Kelly
HM1
Winter Monochrome
Sandra H. Bounds
HM2
Blue Skies, Bright Trees
Lee Pelham Cotton
HM3
A Gloss on the Poem, "Fog" by Carl Sandburg
Ruth Richmond
3-MPS Central Branch Award (
1st Place
Two Weeks Fearing My Father's Death
Michelle McMillan-Holifield
2nd Place
Carry Me High
Judy Davies
3rd Place
Angel of God
Diane Muse
HM1
Coffee with Beulah Corley
Eiizabeth Howard
HM2
Vintage Home for Sale
Ann Carolyn Cates
HM3
In The Sap House
T. Sammie Wakefield
4 - MPS South Branch Award
1st Place
Lasting Impressions
Lee Ann Russell
2nd Place
Tree Falling
Jeanne Kelly
3rd Place
The Firefly
Dorothy Rogers
HM1
Purpose in Verse
Michael Shelton
HM2
Face-Off
Beverly Stanislawski
HM3
Dew Dancing (A French Sonnet)
Emory D. Jones
5 - President's/Past President's South Branch Award
1st Place
A face in stone
Catherine Moran
2nd Place
God's Open House
Poppy Herrin
3rd Place
Fated Love Offering
Von Bourland
HM1
Revolving Canvass
Ann Carolyn Cates
HM2
Autumn Quilt
Wynne Huddleston
HM3
Legacy
Lee Ann Russell
6 - Poets Anonymous Award
1st Place
Hunting the Elusive Versification
Barbara Blanks
2nd Place
Seen Scene
Vera Ogden Bakker
3rd Place
Other Voices
Beth Staas
HM1
How is a Poem?
Lee Ann Russell
HM2
Where Poems Come From
Lee Pelham Cotton
HM3
A Proposal of Lies
Catherine Moran
7 - Frances P. Denington Memorial Award
1st Place
Wanted: Catnapper
Barbara Blanks
2nd Place
An Adjustment
Sara Gipson
3rd Place
Addicted
Wynne Huddleston
HM1
Computer vs. Poetry
Judy Davies
HM2
List Lady
Hilda F Wales
HM3
In the River
Jerri Hardesty
8 - Birds on the Wing
(In Memory of Patricia Green)
1st Place
Spring Symphony
Jerri Hardesty
2nd Place
Welcome Spring
Judy Davies
3rd Place
When Birds Speak
Jeanine Mah
HM1
Hummingbird
Diane Muse
HM2
Spring Conversations
Michael Shelton
HM3
Hummingbird Wings
Beverly Stanislawski
9 - Barron & Dessie Caulfield Memorial Award
1st Place
Promise the Moon
Judy Davies
2nd Place
Progressively Immature
Barbara Blanks
3rd Place
Conundrum
D. Beecher Smith, III
HM1
In the Cold
LaVern Spencer McCarthy
HM2
Waking To Cold
Hilda F. Wales
HM3
I Knew A Man
Linda Owen Watson
10 - Charles & Dorothy Little Memorial Award
1st Place
Agrarian Palette
Doris F. Jones
2nd Place
In the Bush
E. Gail Chandler
3rd Place
The Patriot
Emory D. Jones
HM1
Romance…on the Rocks
Barbara Blanks
HM2
Where Roses Know the Secret
Linda Watson Owen
HM3
Spineless Volumes
Lee Ann Russell
11 - Ruth Richmond Award
1st Place
Memories of steel
Catherine Moran
2nd Place
Overheard at Connie's Café
Sandra Lake Lassen
3rd Place
Roscoe Turner: Aviation Pioneer
Emory D. Jones
HM1
The Greeting
Michael R. Denington
HM2
Spirit of the Everglades
Caroline Walton
HM3
Condensation is the Key
Lee Ann Russell
12 - The Pat Jordan Award
1st Place
Eternal Life
Diane Muse
2nd Place
Sculpture Garden (A tribute to Jack Jordan)
Tommy Little
3rd Place
The Husbandman
Lee Pelham Cotton
HM1
Genesis of a New Day (tie)
Ann Carolyn Cates
HM1
Old Church Garden (tie)
Sara Gipson
HM2
The Arbor
Michael Shelton
13 - The Beech Award
1st Place
I Can Find Hell by Myself
Barbara Blanks
2nd Place
A Sad Note
Genevieve Didier DeWitt
3rd Place
Finishing
Jerri Hardesty
HM1
Stuck
Diane Muse
HM2
If I Could Choose
Poppy Herrin
HM3
Get Busy
Jeanne Kelly
14 - Elvis Was in the Building
(Remember 1951 - 1957)
1st Place
I Can't Stop Loving You
Wynne Huddleston
2nd Place
The Royal Visit
Beverly Stanislawski
3rd Place
Fit for a King
Barbara Blanks
HM1
A Teen Rocker
Sara Gipson
HM2
Elvis Has Left the Building
Jeanine Mah
HM3
Left the Building
Jerri Hardesty
15 - Grandchildren Award
1st Place
First Steps
Jeanne Kelly
2nd Place
Transaction
Doris F. Jones
3rd Place
When Sweetness Sleeps…
Linda Watson Owen
HM1
Jump Start
Barbara Blanks
HM2
A Trip to the Store
Beth Staas
HM3
Casting Call on Valentine's Day
Ann Carolyn Cates
16 - The Friendship Award
1st Place
Upon Becoming a Year Older
Jeanine Mah
2nd Place
Black Feathers
Vera Ogden Bakker
3rd Place
At Parting
LaVern Spencer McCarthy
HM1
Trusty Sidekicks
Barbara Blanks
HM2
Old Friend
Emory D. Jones
HM3
Tennessee Ballad
Douglas Taylor
17-Winklebleck's Challenge Award
(In Memory of Mary Winklebleck)
1st Place
Empty Nest
E. Gail Chandler
2nd Place
Incident on a Rural Road
Madelyn Eastlund
3rd Place
Apollo Morning
Linda Watson Owen
HM1
Where The Truth Lies (a pantoum)
Poppy Herrin
HM2
A roach in church
Catherine Moran
HM3
Old Wrinkle in a New Age
Eric Kaplan
18 - Travels Past and Present
1st Place
My Muse Sings Only Country
Emory D. Jones
2nd Place
Cordova Pass
Von Bourland
3rd Place
Finding Death
Catherine Moran
HM1
The Roman Theater at Caesarea
Sandra Lake Lassen
HM2
Arrival Enigma
Hilda F. Wales
HM3
Culture Shock
Jeanne Kelly
HM4
A Message from Darwin
Beth Staas
19 - Mississippi State Award
1st Place
Where East Meets West
Judy Davies
2nd Place
A Poet's Swansong
D.L. Mumpower
3rd Place
Morpheus' Song
Helen Kressmann Taylor
HM1
Mystery and Intoxication
Sandra H. Bounds
HM2
Charlemagne's Knight
Beverly Stanislawski
20 CSA Memorial Award
1st Place
So Proud the Man
Michael Shelton
2nd Place
Lee and We
Lee Ann Russell
3rd Place
Dignity in Defeat
Jeanne Kelly
HM1
A glance at Robert E. Lee
Catherine Moran
HM2
A Tragic Life Compelled by Honor
(The Struggle of General Robert E. Lee)
Jim Booth
HM3
Blood Red Flags
Emory D. Jones
21 - Gulf Coast Writers Association Award
1st Place
Horn Island: Both Paradise and Prison
Jeanine Mah
2nd Place
At Old Biloxi Cemetery
Barbara Blanks
3rd Place
Beach Attractions
Sara Gipson
HM1
Friendship Oak
Jeanne Kelly
HM2
Biloxi Lighthouse
Douglas Taylor
HM3
Round Island Revival
Michael Shelton
22 - Mississippi Writers Guild: The Blues
1st Place
Tragedy of Habit
Michelle McMillan-Holifield
2nd Place
The Blues Man
Jim Booth
3rd Place
The Hidden Fox
Lee Pelham Cotton
HM1
Reflections
Beth Staas
HM2
Fragile
Jerri Hardesty
HM3
Brogan Blues
Sandra Lake Lassen
23: Mississippi Poetry Society Student Awards
Level 1
1st Place
Perseus and Medusa
Alyssa McMullan
2nd Place
My Place
Morgan Talbert
3rd Place
Wonder
Abbye Chertkow
HM1
Chess
Kyler Walker
Level 2
1st Place
Twas the Night
Katie Barnes
2nd Place
To See or Not to See
Claire Myers
3rd Place
A Chinese Maiden
Marilyn Tullos
HM1
Maci
Sidney McGee
Level 3
1st Place
My Own Fault
Candace Bolden
Level 4
1st Place
Sleep Meadow Sleep
Ethan Burton
2nd Place
Teardrop Paradise Island
Emily Hagberg
3rd Place
Home
Halie Bell
HM1
Eight Seconds
Kylee Killebrew
HM2
Sinking Sand
Sidney Whitehead
HM3
The Beauty of Old Waverly
Aylin Memili
Level 5
1st Place
Though the Storm
Amanda Honeycutt
2nd Place
26 Miseries
Abbey Loper
Mississippi Poetry Society's
Mississippi Poetry Society
2013 Poet of the Year
Patricia Butkovich
For information about Mississippi Poetry Society's Spring Festival in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, see page 2.
