Janice Farrell Poetry Prize Category
1st Prize: $100…. 2nd Prize: $50…. Third Prize:…. $25
Category Details
Three poems per entry. One poem per page. One page poems only. We welcome free verse, blank verse and prose poems. Each year a local poet is invited to guest judge. At this point the judge for the current category is yet to be announced. Past judges have included Katherine Harer, Rich Yurman, Patricia Gale, Christopher J. Renz, O.P., David Smith-Ferri, Toby Kaplan, Joyce Jenkins, C. B. Follett, Susan Terris, Janell Moon, Alice Rogoff, Clive Matson, David Alpaugh, Forrest Hamer, Marcia Campbell, Andrena Zawinski, Grace M. Grafton, Adam David Miller, Stewart Florsheim, Marvin R. Hiemstra, Charles and Gail Entrekin, Jeanne Wagner, Erica Goss, Connie Post, Susan Cohen, Dawn McGuire, Robert Eastwood
About Sponsor
JANICE FARRELL (San Francisco, CA) has a private practice in Spiritual Direction and trains and supervises Spiritual Director interns at Mercy Center Burlingame. She has a degree in Psychology, certification as a Holistic Health Educator Counselor, and has done extensive post grad work in Theology. She invites local poets as annual judges in her eager and full-hearted support of poetry, which she loves deeply.
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Last Year’s Winners (2018)
JUDGED BY ROBERT EASTWOOD
JANICE FARRELL POETRY PRIZE
First Prize: Nancy Cook of St. Paul, MN for “Made in the USA”
Second Prize: Nancy Cook of St. Paul, MN for “Reorienting”
Third Prize: Sharon Doyle of Ft. Collins, CO for “There’s Not a Book on How to Do This”
Honorable Mentions: Barbara LaMorticella of Portland, OR for “Everyday Hungers”; Abby Caplin of San Francisco, CA for “Ode to Estate Sales”; Karen McAferty Morris of Pensacola, FL for “Aubade: A Parting at Dawn”; Ellaraine Lockie of Sunnyvale, CA for “Coming Home in a Haibun”; Diane Elayne Dees of Covington, LA for “The Iconography of Aging”; Ellaraine Lockie of Sunnyvale, CA for “In Setswana There is a Saying”