Poets & Artists 2009
BY TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION ONE: AWARD WINNERS
Poets
Heather Dearmon not the matter (1st Prize in Poetry)
Kimberly Glanzman Scar (2nd Prize in Poetry)
Paul Fisher The Butcher’s Dream (3rd Prize in Poetry)
Allison Elrod First Fig
Jeff Miles Good Days, Bad Days
Kit Loney Altered Books
Steve Lautermilch The Cave Language of Hands
Terresa Haskew Following the Sun
David T. Manning Doing the Box Step
Leslie M. Rupracht Milk
Phebe Davidson Somebody’s Mother
Genie Cotner Pietà
Brian Slusher Keeping Abel
Michael Colonnese On a Roman Footpath in Central England
Eric A. Weil Chaos Theory
Alice Owens Johnson Reading Frida’s Letters in Oaxaca
Alex Grant Marc Chagall’s Lament
Claire Armstrong Yes, My Pet
Sally B. Miller Tundra Swan
Artists
Susan Fecho Country Kitchen (1st Prize in Art)
Karon Luddy Dreaming of Leo (2nd Prize in Art)
Patz Fowle Runs in the Family (3rdPrize in Art)
Leigh Wood The Dancing Fruit Boobs
Steve Lautermilch Live Oak, Fog, Roanoke Sound
Mark Gordon Plumb Bob IV
Julie Ann Cook Becky’s Balancing Act
Jeannette Brossart When I Was Cute
SECTION TWO: SPECIAL GUEST CONTRIBUTORS
Carolyn Moore and Kathleen Pompe
Introducing Carolyn Moore
Poetry by Carolyn Moore
The Laundress Sings to the Dress Shirt Without Mentioning Poetry
Multiple-Choice Quiz on Abandoned F-Words
To His Dead Mistress
Improbable Punctuation: Sleep as Parentheses
After the Reading: The Celebrity Fields Questions from the Audience
Introducing Kathleen Pompe
Visual Art by Kathleen Pompe
Antonio Gaudi’s Room of a Hundred Columns
Shipwreck of the S.S. Maheno
Puddle on the Main Square
Staircase in the Palace of Charles V
Interior, The Alcazar
SECTION THREE: SELECTED POETS AND ARTISTS
Poets
Alice Owens Johnson Milk of Magnolia
Eric A. Weil Got Milk?
Glenda C. Beall Scene from Yellowstone’s Valiant Wild
Ed Madden Scavenge
Maurice Thomas The Crossing
Jim Koger The Fox and the Egg
Susan Meyers Morning after the Hailstorm
Rebecca Warren By Morning
David T. Manning Tributaries
Ann Herlong-Bodman Desert Woman
Jeff Miles Steps of Stone
Jeanette Reid Point of View
Diana Pinckney What the Island Grocer Hears
Seabrook Wilkinson December Dusk, Sullivan’s
Peggy Douglas Knowing Jasper
Steve Lautermilch Bird at Storyville
Cedric Tillman Ram in the Bush: Mr. Sturdivant’s Story
Jim Lundy Unsurvivable
Sally Atkins Sometimes
Elizabeth Swann A Wall from Pompeii Speaks
James C. Raff In Spain
Lynn Stanton A Healer’s Take on the Intersection of Politics and Insanity
Don Mager Security Checks
Lynn Veach Sadler Levitation
Lynn Bishop Clear
William Aarnes Our Father’s First Automatic
Mary Hutchins Harris Oil and Water
Bebe Jenkins Ralph Forgot His Lunch Again (May 1955)
Steve Mitchell Where It Hurts
Terri McCord Through and Through
Marilyn McComas Credo
Mark Smith-Soto Magic
Phebe Davidson Nightmare
Kimberly Glanzman Lying Still Beneath the Sky
Deborah Lawson Scott Blackberriers
Kathryn Kirkpatrick Yeats Plays Croquet
Libby Bernardin the women all say
Allison Elrod In This Poem, the Snow
Julie Ann Cook The Religion of Sex
Dennis Ward Stiles The Map
Malaika King Albrecht What I Say to the Admissions Counselor at Serenity Lodge
Scott Owens By-Product
Emily A. Benton Man with a Beard of Bees
Paula “Rain” Mathis Sanctuary
Gilbert Allen Vita Nuova
Ed Devany Conception
Karon Luddy Contemplating the Enormity of It All While Sitting on My White Sofa, April 8, 2008
Alice Osborn My Mother and St. Christopher
Michael Colonnese The Forgotten Moon
Cheryl Boyer Clear
Ellen E. Hyatt Late Lessons in Early Autumn
Barbara Campbell Not Even Stone Soup
Ann Tsao Longing
Gail Peck Old Woman
Blynn Field Your Scale is Tipping Light to Dark, Mimi
Doris Thomas Browder Clearing Out Mother’s Room
Coyla Barry Blue Heron on the Nest
Susan Lefler Hanging My Father
Karen M. Peluso Physical Therapy
William J. Blackley, M.D. Heart Break
Susan A. Scheno Question Mark
Sheridan Hough My Life as a Bruxist
Elizabeth Drewry Manhattan, Very Late
Wayne Cox The Night Watchman On His Beat
Brian Slusher The Voice in the Night Said
Artists
Susan Fecho Have Ready Carefully
Gwen Saunders Camogli, Italia
Steve Lautermilch Steps of Stone
Karen M. Peluso Live Oak & Gardener’s Cottage
Dede Norungolo Saluda Grade
Mark Gordon Jar with Hemispheres
Karon Luddy Lover’s Graffiti
Patz Fowle Big Red
Gwen Saunders Tree Huggers
Terry Butler Masaai Prince
Katherine Gillis Sugar Grove View
Julie Ann Cook Life of a Cicada
Heather Dearmon Grace and Forbearance
Sharon A. Sharp Gathered Light
Sharon A. Sharp Early Autumn Icicles
Mick Kreszock Arches
Jeannette Brossart Spring Unfurling
Steve Lautermilch Desert Tortoise Shell
Carol Butler Cooper River Comet
Bill Griffin Minas Morgul