Judge: Nancy Breen

Contest Winners
$250 - 1st Place
“Watching Myself Thinking of You  1943”
by Carol W. Bachofner

$100 - 2nd Place
"China Painters"
by Barbara Shepherd

$50 - 3rd Place
“Women's Words”
by Barbara Shepherd

HONORALBE MENTIONS

• “Ode to a Teacher of Poetry,”  Gretchen Fletcher
•  “Diving, Not Dying,”  Mary Langer Thompson
•  “Barbara,”  Katharyn Howd Machan
•  “At the Time of the Leonid Meteor Showers,” Ann E. Michael
•  “For Richard Barnett, Teacher,” Wilma Ann Johnson
•  “String Lady,” Patricia Wellingham-Jones
•  “The Poetry of Iowa,” Carol W. Bachofner
•  “Daddy Returns to St. Vith, 1973,” Carol W. Bachofner
•  “After the Guns,” Carol W. Bachofner
•  “Oildocks,”  Katie Coakley

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2004 Reader’s Choice Award
Shoshauna Shy