2007 Winners List
Dancing Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Artists Embassy International
We had 190 poets entering 538 poems from 34 states and 8 foreign countries
All winners are invited to read their poem at the podium. Each category is of equal merit and listed alphabetically.
Grand Prize Winners: $100 each plus poem choreographed, costumed, danced and videotaped for the winner
Won’t Wear My Mama’s Mumu: Bill Reinman, Oakdale, CA
Pegasus: Ruth Wildes Schuler, Novato, CA
Birth of Writing: Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Tehama, CA
First Prize Winners: $50 each
Why We Can’t Hear Them: Gretchen R. Fletcher, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
What the Farm Wife Painted: Julia Paul, Manchester, CT
Root Woman: Kay Renz, Santa Rosa, CA
The Old Man On the Bench: Marcia E. Schechinger, Council Bluffs, IA
Weaving the Fifth World: Andrea L. Watson, Taos, NM
Second Prize Winners: $25 each
Monarch On My Window Pain: Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI
Day at the Beach: Helen Cho, Venice, CA
Skydivers: Susan A. Coons, North Bend, OR
The Moon From Kakadu National Park: Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA
Flaçons: Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA
I Am a Fado Song: Louis Giron, Kansas City, MO
Apotheosis: Indigo Moor, Rancho Cordova, CA
Painting the Dance: Julia Paul, Manchester, CT
Urginea Maritima: Martin Steele, Delray Beach, FL
Campasantos: Andrea L. Watson, Taos, NM
Third Prize Winners: $10 each
A Trip to the Grocers: David C. Anderson, Lincoln, CA
From San Francisco to Assisi: Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA
Geechee Fishamon: Carol Saul Bayma, Norfolk, VA
Hands: Dina Britton, Portland, OR
Aborigine: Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI
Bird Girl of Savannah: Noble Collins, Payson, AZ
Labyrinth Walk: Lourdes Costales, Alameda, CA
Listening to Congolese Singer, Sam Mangwana: Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA
The Fibonacci Series: Judith Goldhaber, Berkeley, CA
Seasons Marked by the Pear Tree: Fay Williams Jones, North Little Rock, AR
Proposal on a Plate: Oango Island, Guinea-Bissau: Allison Joseph, Carbondle, IL
Tibetan Prayer Wheels: Laurie Kurts, APO (US Military overseas)
What Passes On: Laurie Kurts, APO (US Military overseas)
1554.8: Erica Lehrer, Houston, TX
Mary Poppins Tries to Fly from an Airport in the States: Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY
From the Ashes: Florence I. Miller, Fremont, CA
Tap-Root: Indigo Moor, Rancho Cordova, CA
Dancing in Portugal, 1966: Gayle Portnow, Camden, ME
What Do You Remember From Before the War?: Susan Rich, Seattle, WA
The One-Winged Angel: Lori Shannon, Manning, IA
My Father’s Woodpile: Nick Sweet, Taft, OK
Down the Steps of Monmartre, 1936: Corine Topal, Redondo Beach, CA
Sunday Morning: Annie Stewart Ueling, Ely, MN
Well: Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Tehama, CA
On Orinoco Shore: Sharon K. Wieland, Ann Arbor, MI