Fall 2016 and Spring 2017

Contest Winning Poems

The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Society Prize

Sailing Single-Handed

Ann Herlon-Bodman

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize

Thomas Johnson

Sunset and Moonlight Over Charleston

The John Robert Doyle, Jr., Prize

Celeste McMaster

An Elegy for Sadness

The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize

Ellen Hyatt

Gray Is

The Starkey Flythe, Jr., Memorial Prize

Laurel Blossom

Syria

The Forum Prize

Talley Kayser

Service

The Humorous Verse Prize

Debra Daniel

The 100th Yard Prayer

The Gertrude Munzemaier Prize

Thomas Johnson

Dionysus at Brookgreen

The John Edward Johnson Prize

Terri McCord

The Bag Boy Discusses Dogma

The Lyric Poem Prize

For Robin Williams

J. Stephen Rhodes

The Marjorie E. Peale Memorial Prize

Gregory Lobes

Dark Energy

The Peter Pan Prize

Celeste McMaster

Dogfight

The Nancy Walton Pringle Memorial Prize

Laurel Blossom

The Big One

The Klyde Robinson Poetry Prize

Emily Rosko

Here They Landed

The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize

Talley Kayser

Puppetry

The Skylark Prize

Helen Coats
SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities

Dream for Honey Bee Januaries

The Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize

Elliot Hueske

missing in action

Summer Scholarship Winner

Melissa Slayton

Some Say the Inuit Have Fifty-Two Words for Snow

The Jane Moran Prize

Thomas Johnson

Remembering the Girl with the Blackened Teeth

The Constance E Pultz Prize

Kit Loney

The Wind of Your Name, Sophia

Fall 2016 | Spring 2017 Winning Poems: List