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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 2

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.

curve by curve
I follow her down
the river

Jim Kacian

harvest moon
the groom inhales helium
from a white balloon

Victor Ortiz

honeymoon
we wade into the current
of a great river

Kirsty Karkow

bullfrogs—
the widow looks out
her parlor window

William Cullen, Jr.

cloudy afternoon—
a chrysanthemum blooms
in the paper-folder’s hand

K. Ramesh

muddy barnyard
the old farmer waltzing
with a wayward cow

Elizabeth Howard

New Year’s Eve . . .
rhythm of a push broom
high in the stadium

Michael McClintock

winter forest
the mist
of a whisper

Connie Donleycott

landing
the heron’s neck
curves into itself

Ruth Yarrow

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