20TH ANNUAL PENUMBRA 2007 POETRY & HAIKU CONTEST

 

POETRY WINNERS
1st Prize, ---Joy Nimnom Kraus, Washington, D.C. “Minefield”
2nd Prize,---S.L. Lipner, Tallahassee, Florida “Surfaces”
3rd Prize,---Anne Meisenzahl, Tallahassee, Florida “If I Were a Water Lily”
 

POETRY FINALISTS
Andrew Burgess, Tallahassee, Florida “The Washstand”
“A Summer Day in February without Ducks”
Anna Goodwin, Rathdrum, Idaho “A Backwoods Contemplation”
Wm. Richard Dempsey, Tallahassee, Florida “September Morn”
Karin Hoffecker, Birmingham, Michigan “Thinking about Affluence”
Vien Jernigan, Duluth, Georgia “My Red Rollerskates”
Pat Kraft, Monticello, Florida “Canoe Creek”
Laura A. Lionello, Chicago, Illinois “Still Life”
S.L. Lipner, Tallahassee, Florida “Untitled”
John McBride, Bettendorf, Iowa “The Marble People”
Anne Meisenzahl, Tallahassee, Florida “Hurricane Days”
“For Our Daughters on the Cusp”
“Infractions”
John Warner Smith, Baton Rouge, Louisiana “Crossing”
“Pelicans”
“Root Story I and Root Story 2”
“Hand Sewn Dolls”

POETRY JUDGE 

Jeremy M. Downes has studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Warwick, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He writes and teaches in the English Department at Auburn University, and serves as vice president of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. He is author of The Lost Atlas of Desire, a collection of poetry from Blaze VOX books, and of Recursive Desire, a study of epic poetry published by the University of Alabama Press. His poetry has appeared in the MacGuffin, Poet Lore, Poetry Motel, Rhino and several magazines.

A former Penumbra prizewinner, he is now completing The Female Homer, an exploration of women’s epic poetry, as well as a new collection of poems.
 

HAIKU WINNERS
1st Prize,---- Wanda Cook, Hadley, Massachusetts “a hushed rustling”
2nd Prize,--- Mara Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “early nightfall”
3rd Prize, ---Ernest Berry, Picton, New Zealand “biopsy”
 

HAIKU FINALISTS
Sheila K. Barksdale, Gainesville, Florida “through childhood sand dunes”
Roberta Beary, Bethesda, Maryland “florida sunshine”
“lakeshore”
“visit home”
Ernest Berry, Picton, New Zealand “autumn chill”
Wanda Cook, Hadley, Massachussetts “across the winter sky”
Amitava Dasgupta, Houston, Texas “gusty wind”
“summer trip”
Carolyn Hall, San Francisco, California “fallen camellias--”
“a new year”
John Ower, Roswell, New Mexico “moving day’s end--”
“satellite image--”
André Surridge, Hamilton, New Zealand  “hot day”
Tony A. Thompson, Lufkin, Texas “Indian summer”
Marilyn Appl Walker, Madison, Georgia “guarded thoughts”
HAIKU JUDGE

Pamela Miller Ness holds degrees in art history and library science and currently teaches Latin and works as a learning specialist at the Dalton School in New York City. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in diverse international journals, including the annual Red Moon Anthology. Her poetry awards include first prize in the San Francisco/HPNC international contest, the TSA Tanka contest, winner and finalist in the Snapshot Haiku calendar contest, and finalist and first place haiku winner in the Penumbra contest. Pamela’s most recent chapbooks are 1,000 Paper Cranes (Lilliput Review, 2006) and The Hands of Women (Swamp Press, 2007). Since 2005 she has edited and published the biannual red lights tanka journal. She is currently president of the Haiku Society of America and held positions in the Tanka Society of America.
 

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