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Affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry Societies

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




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For information about Mississippi Poetry Society's Spring Festival in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, see page 2.

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