The Poetry Society of South Carolina
Spring 2011 Contest Winners
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Brian Slusher, “On the Battery”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “At Midnight”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “Of Birds & Angels At The Post Office”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Swan in Bare Outline”
The Forum Prize
Deborah Lawson Scott, “After the Grass”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Starkey Flythe, “We're Taking the Real Estate Exam”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Kit Loney, “Buzz and Tumble”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jerri Chaplin, “Direction (for a child)”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Brian Slusher, “Shadowbox”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Pantomime”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Terri McCord, “The Light”
The Skylark Prize
Allison Cooke, “Butterfly Road”
Brian Slusher, “On the Battery”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “At Midnight”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “Of Birds & Angels At The Post Office”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Swan in Bare Outline”
The Forum Prize
Deborah Lawson Scott, “After the Grass”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Starkey Flythe, “We're Taking the Real Estate Exam”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Kit Loney, “Buzz and Tumble”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jerri Chaplin, “Direction (for a child)”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Brian Slusher, “Shadowbox”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Pantomime”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Terri McCord, “The Light”
The Skylark Prize
Allison Cooke, “Butterfly Road”
Judges for PSSC's Spring 2011 Competitions:
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses. Albergotti currently teaches creative writing and literature courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.
Gilbert Allen lives in Travelers Rest, SC, and teaches at Furman University, where he is the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature. His collections of poems are In Everything, Second Chances, Commandments at Eleven, and Driving to Distraction. He received the 2002-2003 Literary Arts Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review. His work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily.
S.C. native Diana Pinckney lives in Charlotte, N.C. Her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Atlanta Review, Iodine, Cave Wall, RHINO, Ekphrasis, and numerous publications. A 5 time Pushcart nominee, she has four collections of poetry: Fishing With Tall Women (Winner of the Kinloch Rivers Memorial Chapbook Award and Persephone Press Book Award), White Linen (Nightshade Press), Alchemy (Main Street Rag), and Green Daughters (Lorimer Press).
Eric Nelson has published four collections of poetry, including Terrestrials, winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Award (2004), and The Interpretation of Waking Life, winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award (1991). He coordinates the Department of Writing and Linguistics’ creative writing concentration at Georgia Southern University.
Gilbert Allen lives in Travelers Rest, SC, and teaches at Furman University, where he is the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature. His collections of poems are In Everything, Second Chances, Commandments at Eleven, and Driving to Distraction. He received the 2002-2003 Literary Arts Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review. His work has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily.
S.C. native Diana Pinckney lives in Charlotte, N.C. Her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Atlanta Review, Iodine, Cave Wall, RHINO, Ekphrasis, and numerous publications. A 5 time Pushcart nominee, she has four collections of poetry: Fishing With Tall Women (Winner of the Kinloch Rivers Memorial Chapbook Award and Persephone Press Book Award), White Linen (Nightshade Press), Alchemy (Main Street Rag), and Green Daughters (Lorimer Press).
Eric Nelson has published four collections of poetry, including Terrestrials, winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Award (2004), and The Interpretation of Waking Life, winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award (1991). He coordinates the Department of Writing and Linguistics’ creative writing concentration at Georgia Southern University.
The Poetry Society of South Carolina
Winter 2010 Contest Winners
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Janet Joyner, “Cassandra”
The Footlight Players Prize
Mary Harris, “After Dinner”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Cassie Premo Steele, “Spirit Lesson”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Tim Harkins, “Ebbing Yuletide”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “Third Birthday”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Linda Lee Harper, “Watch Out For The Low Beams”
The Pegasus Prize
Kit Loney, “History of the Black Hose”
The Post and Courier Prize
Brian Slusher, “Crybaby Bridge”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Kit Loney, “Anthony”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “Never Land”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Cassie Premo Steele, “This is my disease”
Janet Joyner, “Cassandra”
The Footlight Players Prize
Mary Harris, “After Dinner”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Cassie Premo Steele, “Spirit Lesson”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Tim Harkins, “Ebbing Yuletide”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “Third Birthday”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Linda Lee Harper, “Watch Out For The Low Beams”
The Pegasus Prize
Kit Loney, “History of the Black Hose”
The Post and Courier Prize
Brian Slusher, “Crybaby Bridge”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Kit Loney, “Anthony”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “Never Land”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Cassie Premo Steele, “This is my disease”
Judges of PSSC's Winter 2010 Competitions:
A 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient,
Sandra Meek is the author of four books of poems, Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo 2008), Burn (2005), Nomadic Foundations (2002), and the forthcoming Road Scatter (Persea Books), and editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark 2007).
Young Smith has received fellowships from the NEA, the James Michener Foundation, and the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, Agni, and The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among others, and last year Black Zinnias Press published his In a City You Will Never Visit. He is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, and coordinates their Brief-Residency MFA.
Evie Shockley is author of the new black (Wesleyan, 2011), a half-red sea (Carolina Wren, 2006), and two chapbooks. Her poetry and criticism appear in numerous journals and anthologies, recently including Callaloo, esque, Harvard Review, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. She co-edits jubilat and is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.
Eric Nelson has published five collections of poetry, including Terrestrials, winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Award (2004), and The Interpretation of Waking Life, winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award (1991). He coordinates the Department of Writing and Linguistics' creative writing concentration at Georgia Southern University.
Sandra Meek is the author of four books of poems, Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo 2008), Burn (2005), Nomadic Foundations (2002), and the forthcoming Road Scatter (Persea Books), and editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark 2007).
Young Smith has received fellowships from the NEA, the James Michener Foundation, and the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, Agni, and The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among others, and last year Black Zinnias Press published his In a City You Will Never Visit. He is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, and coordinates their Brief-Residency MFA.
Evie Shockley is author of the new black (Wesleyan, 2011), a half-red sea (Carolina Wren, 2006), and two chapbooks. Her poetry and criticism appear in numerous journals and anthologies, recently including Callaloo, esque, Harvard Review, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. She co-edits jubilat and is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.
Eric Nelson has published five collections of poetry, including Terrestrials, winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Award (2004), and The Interpretation of Waking Life, winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award (1991). He coordinates the Department of Writing and Linguistics' creative writing concentration at Georgia Southern University.
The Poetry Society of South Carolina
Spring 2010 Contest Winners
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Michael Lucas, “Old Tabby”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Tim Harkins, “Horizons”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Marilyn R. Mumford, “true story (philadelphia 1994)”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “The Invisible Rope Trick”
The Forum Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Interruption”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Brian Slusher, “Leavings”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Jules Riley, “Winter Garden”
The Peter Pan Prize
Sybil B. Collins, “Where Tigers Roam”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Thomas L. Johnson, “On Deciding Whether or Not to Purchase a Scenic Print of Table Rock Reflected in a Lake at Sunset”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Janet Lombard, “Closing Night”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Doaty Flanigan, “Anger Fulfilled”
The Skylark Prize
Victoria Sharpe, “Letter to Gloria”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Nick Bozanic, “Isaac”
The Footlight Players Prize
Elizabeth Bernardin, “Story”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Ellen E. Hyatt, “Genesis”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Kit Loney, “Influence of Two Moons”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Aly Goodwin, “What Happened on Flat Creek in Montreat, North Carolina, When I Was 14, That Changed My Life”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Susan Finch Stevens, “Marsh Impasto”
The Pegasus Prize
Frances Pearce, “Postcard from the King Tut Exhibition, Munich, 1980”
The Post and Courier Prize
Libby Swope Wiersema, “Haunting Pawley’s Island”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Being Kissed By A Poet”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Susan Finch Stevens, “Chickadee”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Tim Harkins, “Crows Finally Find Me in Spartanburg”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Hot Market”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Eye of the Skull”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Brian Slusher, “Dead, I Take-up Stargazing”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Tim Harkins, “Omaha”
The Forum Prize
Kit Loney, “Sooner Or Later They Ask Me My Age”
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The Humorous Verse Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “High On The Hog”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Scott Owens, “Adding Up the Day”
The Peter Pan Prize
Elsie T. Holcombe, “What If the World was Upside Down?”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
James B. Hudson, “Monte Sano At Wheeler”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “The Mah Jongg Ladies Attend the Ballet”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Thomas L. Johnson, “The Sign of the Mona Lisa Motel,
Fallen at Camden”
The Skylark Prize
Noah Roy Fram, “Memories”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Ancient Greek Wisdom”
The Footlight Players Prize
Mary Wideman Carson, “Returning to the New World”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Terri McCord, “Found Jesus”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Bryan Penberthy, “Musetta's Waltz & Electric Guitar”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Kate Hanzalik, “The Thickening”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Libby Bernardin, “What You Gave Me”
The Pegasus Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Abstract Painting”
The Post and Courier Prize
Linda Annas Ferguson, “Rituals”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Brian Slusher, “Wife Not Comfortable with the Idea of Nudist Resort”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Linda Lee Harper, “Nameless”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Starkey Flythe, Jr., “The House”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “The Tear of Things”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Before We Leave”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Calling Out the Memories”
The Forum Prize
Aly Goodwin, “The Moon of Ripe Blackberries”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “I Should Have”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “In the Garden”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “A Rainbow in the Making”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “Ordnance”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, "The Alchemist"
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “History 101”
The Skylark Prize
Cameron Blake Rotton, “Apocalypse”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Helen C. Brandenburg, “After the Storm”
The Footlight Players Prize
Tim Harkins, “Dying for a Drink”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Jerri Chaplin, “Passover, Junior Year”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Libby Bernardin, “First Snow”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Kit Loney, “Madame Butterfly and the Down Syndrome Kid”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Mary Hutchins Harris, “Waiting to Be Served”
The Pegasus Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Silent Film Prayer”
The Post and Courier Prize
Terri McCord, “Grainy”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Marguerite Scott, “Personal Effects”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “No Children”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Aly Goodwin, “In the Moon of Yellow Fever,
Campobello, South Carolina, 1916”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Debra Daniel, “His Daughter Who Goes to College in Charleston”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Libby Bernardin, “On Isle of Palms in the Month of No Moon”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Jules Riley, “Waist Deep in Winter Water”
The Forum Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Old Man”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Lee Robinson, “Advice We Give Our Children”
The Peter Pan Prize
Mary Wideman Carson, “Inside Out”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Charleston Docks, Posed for Watercolor”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, "Maybe Once Upon a Time?"
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Other Side of Town”
The Skylark Prize
Victoria Rose Witte, “Love, Cards, in the Atlantic”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Kit Loney, “Unsmashing the Goblet”
The Footlight Players Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Meeting Cortez”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “Adoration of the Magi”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “I Watch the Final Wednesday
of November”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Written Sitting in the Ruins of Old
Sheldon Church, St. William's Parish, Beaufort
County, South Carolina, 16 October, 2004”
The Pegasus Prize
Carol Peters, “Aunt Naked”
The Post and Courier Prize Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Father Spends the Night Lost
in the Santee Swamp”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Matches”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Katherine Williams, “Anagram: Epithalamion”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Don Geddes, “Archie”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “John Bennett”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Isn’t There A Ship”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Tango de La Luna”
The Forum Prize
Carol G. Furtwangler, “Cocoon”
The Humorous Verse Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “When the Lights Go Out”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Chase”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Elegy for the City”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Tomorrow Afternoon the Fifth Graders
Will Hold Auditions for the Spring Play”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Henk Brandt, “Drawbridge on New Year’s Eve”
The Skylark Prize
Duncan Wallace Moore, “A Short Recounting
of One Road to Immortality”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Prize
Deborah Lawson Scott, “The Elders”
The Footlight Players Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Rooster Tales (3)”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Kimberly Simms, “Brother’s Mess of Crosses”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Henk Brandt, “Woman”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Grandmother Steals Oleanders at Windy Hill Beach”
The Pegasus Prize
Jules Riley, “Dogstar Moon”
The Post and Courier Prize Prize
George Pope, “Meeting Miss Mississippi (Columbus, Mississippi, Circa 1961)”
The Constance Pultz Prize
George Pope, “Freedom Hat”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Hot Night, No Screens”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Pelican Mantras”
Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Prize Winner
Michael H. Lythgoe, Brass
High School Gold Winners in Poetry
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Victoria Doose Annie Doran Liz Gildea Daniel Perez Rebecca Plante |
Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Bishop England High School Helen Brandenburg, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Academic Magnet High School Wendy Pumphrey, Instructor Academic Magnet High School Junius Wright, Instructor |
Middle School Gold Winners in Poetry
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Meagan Brandli Lauren DiNicola Collins Rice Lauren Ryder Sally Sheppard |
Ashley Hall
Jane Pelland, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Rene Bufo Miles, Instructor Ashley Hall Jane Pelland, Instructor |