2021 Dancing Poetry Contest Winners List
Listed in alphabetical order of author's surname, according to prize
This year's Dancing Poetry Contest received 532 poems from 27 states and 4 countries
Grand Prizes (3) each of equal merit, each receives $100, an invitation to read at the 2021 Dancing Poetry Festival, and a video of their poem being performed at the 2021 Dancing Poetry Festival by Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company.
Dance of Atoms, Mary K. Lindberg, Bronx, NY
Through You, Deborah K. Tash, San Francisco, CA
The Beauty Road, Cynthia West, Santa Fe, NM
First Prizes (6) each of equal merit, each receives $50, and an invitation to read at the 2021 Dancing Poetry Festival
The Lake of our Emergence, John Curl, Berkeley, CA
Time of Poetry, Johanna Ely, Benicia, CA
Uncertain Prayer, Evie Groch, El Cerrito, CA
Meditation in Watercolors, Elizabeth Palaez Norris, Oakland, CA
To Choose and Combine, Cynthia West, Santa Re, NM
The Diva of Disaster, Lorraine Walker Williams, Fort Myers, FL
Second Prizes (12) each of equal merit, each receives $25, and an invitation to read at the 2021 Dancing Poetry Festival
Without Commentary, Constantina Clark, Palatka, FL
Suman (Sweet Sticky, Black Rice), Romeo Alcala Cruz, San Francisco, CA
Letters to Bangalore, Carmine Dandrea, Pine City NY
Learning Oceanography, Diane Elayne Dees, Covington, LA
Art Beats, Linda Eve Diamond, Port Orange, FL
Musee, C.T. Holt, Albuquerque, NM
Voices, Sara Quayle, Dorchester, MA
Photo Album: Prayer to Lucy Kennedy Miller, Suffragette, Eliza Shefler, Albany, CA
Off to Work, Gayl Teller, Plainview, NY
The Warmth of Other Sons, Deborah Schmidt, El Sobrante, CA
Tribute to John Lewis, House of Representatives, Katharine Wilson, San Jose, CA
Indigenous State of Mind, Diane Woodcock, VCU Qatar
Third Prizes (30) each of equal merit, each receives $10, and an invitation to read at the 2021 Dancing Poetry Festival
Dancing with Veils, Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA
Arrival of Spring Despite the Pandemic, Rosalind L. Braga, Castro Valley, CA
The Art of Pruning, Jabez W. Churchill, Ukiah, CA
When Writing Was Out of the Question, Constantina Clark, Palatka, FL
Winged Sentinels, Susan A. Coons, North Bend, OR
Water, Lourdes Costales, Alameda, CA
Harmonious Healer, Suzanne B. Cottrell, Oxford, NC
To Her Class from Her Computer, Cathy Dana, Alameda, CA
A Miracle of Elephants, Carmine Dandrea, Pine City, NY
As Far as the Eye Can See, Suparna Ghosh, Toronto, ON, Canada
Moonshine, Jerri Hardesty, Brierfield, AL
Easter Sunrise, Dave Holt, Concord, CA
Infinity, Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA
When Women Were Birds, Jennifer Lagier, Monterey, CA
Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, Mary K. Lindberg, Bronx, NY
Keep Dancing, Tatiana Lyulkin, Burlingame, CA
Earth Works, Phyllis Meshulam, Sebastopol, CA
If My Mouth Were A Harmonica, Thomas C. “Doc” Miller, Denver, CO
Bedside Literature, Louise Moises, Richmond, CA
Thoughts about hitching a ride, Catherine Moran, Little Rock, AR
Calafia Original Californian, Garrett Murphy, Oakand, CA
Explaining Rain to a Child, Annette Opalezynski, New Castle, DE
The Blues Guitarist, Livingston Rossmoor, Modesto, CA
The Night is a Dark Wind, Allegra Jostad Silberstein, Davis, CA
Stump Beach, Pamela Singer, Occidental, CA
The Dissident, Deborah Schmidt, El Sobrante, CA
I Am a Flower, Cecilia Roberts Ward, Marshall, NC
Letter to Domestic Terrorists, Lorraine Walker Williams, Fort Myers, FL
Last Chance Road, Katharine Wilson, San Jose, CA
Secretary, Diane Woodcock, VCU Qatar
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