WINNERS –COMMON GROUND’S ELEVENTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST - 2010

JUDGE: JOHN SUROWECKI 

FIRST PLACE –DOROTHY HOPKINS SCHNARE BEREA, KENTUCKY
“BERTHE MORISOT AND HER CIRCLE IN CINCINNATI”

 SECOND PLACE – XENIA ARGON- BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS
“REGARDING ANNE BRADSTREET’S LOOM ”

 THIRD PLACE – NEAL WHITMAN - PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA
“OPENING THE WINDOW”

 HONORABLE MENTIONS:

 J. LORRAINE BROWN –
“MARKING THE SITE OF A TOPPLED COLD WAR TOWER”

NANCY CULP – “COILED”

CAROL FRITH – “COLERIDGE”

LAVERNE FRITH – “FROM CONGO’S CHAOS,”  “HANDS”

 KATHLEEN GRIMALDI – “WHEELS AND TINES”

MELISSA GROSSMAN – “THIS GIRL” 

KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN –
“THIRTY YEARS AGO,” “STRANGE ADVENTURES”

 ANNE JOHNSON MULLIN –
“FALLING ASLEEP WHILE READING,” “IN PREPARATION”

SHAVANYA NAIK – “BIRTHING ATHENA:

SHERMAN PEARL – “LIVING ON LIGHT”

FRANK SALVIDIO – “ELECTION YEAR,”  “MARATHON”

 MARIA SASSI – “EVEN IN DREAMS” 

LUCILLE GANG SHULKLAPPER – “UPHOLSTERED IN RASPBERRY WOOL”

NEAL WHITMAN – “CONTEXT IS ALL”