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2013 Dancing Poetry Contest Winners List

The contest entries are judged anonymously in three rounds by AEI members and associates.

The 2013 contest had 653 poems from 227 poets living in 37 states and 7 different countries

To hear the winning poems read and to also see the three grand prize poems danced with glorious costumes and lighting, please attend the Dancing Poetry Festival on September 14, 2013, Noon-4:00 in the fabulous Florence Gould Theater in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA. For advanced tickets to the Dancing Poetry Festival, please contact Natica Angilly at naticaaei@aol.com.  To see what you might expect at the Festival, please click on the tabs for DPF in previous years.

Grand Prizes (3 of equal merit)

Crone’s Pantoum: Andrea Bates, Wilmington, NC

Seamstress Masters Her Craft: Joanne M. Clarkson, Olympia, WA

Our of Temper, Out of Tune: Jan K. Dederick, El Cerrito, CA

 

First Prizes (6 of equal merit)

Water Lilies: Lucille Lang Day,Oakland, CA

Lessons from a Swing: Regina Kusnir, SC; Bedford, OH

Doctor Mortius came to tell us Latin is dead.: Caroline Zarlengo Sposto, Memphis, TN

Scene from a Medieval Country Fair (Based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Peasant Kermis”):

      Janet Ireland Trail, Greensboro, NC

Woman in Black: Lorraine Walker Williams, Sanibel, FL

Persian Nightingale: Diana Woodcock, Midlothian, VA

 

Second Prizes (12 of equal merit)

Gaia’s Psalm: Ellen Thea Berger, Talkeetna, AK,

 Priestess Who Sang at Midnight in the Garden of Lost Souls: Mary Eastham, San Jose, CA

Instructing the Careless Ingénue (a madrigal after Virginia Woolf): Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA

Heavenly Dance of the Nymphs: Mrs. Scotti Fritts, Gold River, CA

Voice Calls: Ziji B. Goren, Hadley MA

Waiting Around: Trish Hopkins, N. Provo, UT

The Body Universes (at Anna Halprin’s workshop, Tamalpa Institute, May 2011): Paco Marquez,

Sacramento, CA

Toasts to the Scribes: Catherine Moran: Little Rock, AR

The Lady Will Not Vanish: Garrett Murphy, Oakland, CA

Un Pedacito de Pan / A Piece of Bread: Elizabeth Pelaez Norris, Oakland, CA

Kaleidoscope: Sara Quayle, Williston, VT

The Forest Speaks: Marjorie Lynne Wagner, Alameda, CA

 

Third Prizes (30 of equal merit)

The Clothesline:  Dianne Alvine, Barnegat, NJ

Dancing, with Swords: Claire J. Baker, Pinole, CA

Up Near the Crow’s Nest:  Katy Brown, Davis, CA

Journey to the Creek: Patricia Butkovich, Gautier, MS 39553

Icarus’ Sister: Joanne M. Clarkson, Olympia, WA

Echoes, a ghazal: Ginny Lowe Connors, W. Hartford, CT

The Dusty Wallpaper: Dah, Berkeley, CA

Lament for Louisiana: Diane Elayne Dees, Covington, LA

What He Did at the End of His Life:   Mary Eastham, San Jose, CA

Upon a Beach at Nightfall: Gretchen Fletcher, Ft. Lauderdale, FL,

Jeanne With An Umbrella (after Henri Manguin, 1906): Laverne Frith, Sacramento, CA

The Lotus Scroll: Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA

Kitty Hawk Hang Glider School: Joan Leotta, Calabash, NC

Work History: Nicholas Lomonossoff, Mepean, ON, Canada,

The Swan in the Hedge: Wulf Losee, Fremont, CA

day and night: debee loyd, Modesto, CA

Helen: Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY

Raven Reads the Fog: Florence Miller, Fremont, CA

My love affair with jean jackets and permed hair: Casey Moynihan, Raymond, ME,

Blue Guitars: Marijane Osborn, Davis, CA 95616,

A Hint of Winter: Anne Ranasinghe, Colombo , Sri Lanka

The Celebration: John Rowe, El Cerrito, CA

Autumn Leaves: Yuhwa Liao Rozelle, Fremont, CA       

October Afternoon: Allegra Jostad Silberstein, Davis, CA

Endangered People: Kay Speaks, Livermore, CA

Flamenco: Sylvia Stephens, Arcata, CA

The Joy Makers (from a.k.a. Summer): Maree Teychenné, Vincentia, NSW, Australia,

Watercolor Class at the Senior Center: Leslie Crutchfield Tompkins, Charlotte, NC

Music to My Ears: Neal Whitman, Pacific Grove, CA

Meson Flamenco NYC: Randolyn Zinn, Brooklyn, NY