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Volume V, Valentine Awards: February 2003.
Copyright © 2003. All rights reserved by the respective authors.

Overview • Grand Prize - Poet of the Year • Favorite Poets
Grand Prize - Poem of the Year • Favorite Poems
Special Mention - Page 1 • Special Mention - Page 2

2003 VALENTINE AWARDS

Overview

Readers’ Choice —
Poet of the Year

John Stevenson

Readers’ Choice —
Favorite Poets

paul m.
Peggy Willis Lyles
Anna Tambour

Readers’ and Editors’ Choice —
Poem of the Year

paul m.

Readers’ and Editors’ Choice —
Favorite Poems

Billie Wilson
Anna Tambour
Connie Donleycott
Hortensia Anderson
Jim Kacian

Special Mentions —
Page 1

Special Mentions —
Page 2

Special Mentions — Page 1

Several poems scored far above the average, and a few poets accumulated high overall point scores for their respective bodies of work. It is clear that these poets and poems have made deep and lasting impressions and richly deserve to be honored by inclusion in this Valentine Awards issue.

religion aside
there are plum blossoms
and pussywillows

H. F. Noyes

nine-month belly—
she slowly unwraps
the heirloom crèche

D. Claire Gallagher

7th floor, cubicle 9—
a butterfly drifts
past the window

Timothy Hawkes

studio window—
a fly walks
from cloud to cloud

Kuniharu Shimizu

Tiananmen Square
I buy a kite
shaped like a bird

Linda Robeck

empty tracks
a stranger and I
looking in the same direction

Yu Chang

winter landscape
one more raven flaps out
of her paintbrush

Marian Olson

spring mist—
a mallard paddles
through our stillborn’s ashes

H. Gene Murtha

spring twilight—
the unexpected weight
of a swept snail shell

Yvonne Cabalona

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