2012 Dancing Poetry Contest Winners List
(2012 contest had 704 poems from 36 states and 11 countries submitted by 249 poets.)
Grand Prizes (3, all of equal merit):
Dancing With Tambourines, Claire Baker, Pinole, CA
Artist’s Statement, Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA
The Dance of the Goddess, Superna Ghosh, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
First Prizes (6, all of equal merit):
Marie, Janet Ireland Trail, Greensboro, NC
Tornado, Kay Renz, Santa Rosa, CA
Not Beneath Nijinsky, K.R. (Joe) Massingham, Chisholm ACT, Australia,
Casualty, Margaret Flint Suter, Hampton, IA 50441
Receding Moon, Cynthia L. Anderson, Yucca Valley, CA
Cormorant and Dragonflies, Diana Woodcock, Doha Qatar
Second Prizes (12, all of equal merit):
Morning, Ten Years After; Katheryn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY
Alaska, Harry Bauld, Bronx, NY
Reflection, Joyce Gregor, Westcliffe, CO
Harvest Moon on Stipp Street, Joan Leotta, Calabash, NC
The Language of Flowers, Katy Brown, Davis, CA
Sing Like Solomon, Margaret Flint Suter, Hampton, IA
Bananamania, Charmaine Donovan, Brainerd, MN
Tonada de Tere/Teresa’s Tune, Jabez W. Churchill, Ukiah, CA
A Few Miles Away From the Sea, John Rowe, El Cerrito, CA
Beginning and Ending an Assignment in Logical Thought, Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA
Genuinely Wild Woman, Cathy Dana, Alameda, CA
Colors, Ziji Beth Goren, Hadley, MA
Third Prizes (30, all of equal merit):
Black Autumn, Regina Murry Brault, Berlington, VT
Flights to Morocco, Barbara Wildes Wilson, San Rafael, CA
Dresden China Factory Sojourn, Ruth Wilde Schuler, Novato, CA
Butoh for 200,000, Khadija Anderson, Altadena, CA
Wild Grapes, Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca, NY
Mexico, Diana Anhalt, Atlanta, CA
Tabula Rasa, Elizabeth Pelaez Norris, Oakland, CA
Pilgrims on I-80, Kathleen E. McClung, San Francisco, CA
Tango por la Tarde/Afternoon Tango, Lee Pelham Cotton, Locust Hill, VA
New World Spices, Carol Carpenter, Livonia, MI
Dandelions, Roberta Visser, Swanzey, NH
Looking in the Kaleidoscope, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Lexington, MA
Paroles d’Amour/Words of Love, Tuy Nga Brignol, Ris Orangis, France
The Daily Tribune, Gordon Preston, Modesto, CA
Parings, Rozann Kraus, Cambridge, MA
The Bridge to Civita, Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, CA
A Guest in the Home of the Ancients, Margorie Lynne Wagner, Alameda, CA
What I Told My Grown Son at Dinner, Karen Stromberg, La Mesa, CA
Alice Springs Gift Shop, Maxine Williams, Sebastopol, CA
4 Songs of Tzu-Yeh, Wineshop Girl, Neal Whitman, Pacific Grove, CA
Heron Watch, Vera Ogden Bakker, West Bountiful, UT
Argentine Tango, Marion H. Younquist, Wauwatosa, WI
Sipping Whiskey With My Dad, Wulf Losey, Fremont, CA
Dancing Into Dark, Julia Montrond, Berkeley, CA
Beneath a Moon in China, Laverne Frith, Sacramento, CA
Points of Love, Mary Eastham, San Jose, CA
To Roy: for his 100th Birthday, Nick Sweet, Shepherd, TX
Melody and Lyric, Jo Barbara Taylor, Raleigh, NC
Pinned, Julie E. Bloemeke, Alpharetta, GA
Two Poets, Helene Knox, Oakland, CA
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