The Political Poet
would like to thank everyone who submitted poems for the Poetry Month
Competition in Honor of Countee Cullen. Many poems were entered, but only a few
could be chosen as finalists. We would like to remind poets having the courage
to submit poems makes you winners regardless of placing as finalists or not. Honorable
Mention/Finalists’ poems and bios will be posted throughout the month of April.
Prizes will be shipped by the end of April.
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Place
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Poet
|
Poem
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Location
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First
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Bob McNeil
|
Text to Resurrect Revolution
|
New York
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Second
|
Shawn
Hamilton
|
McDonalds and
Disneyland in Baghdad
|
California
|
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Third
|
Taunja
Thompson
|
These Blues
(for Shane)
|
Kentucky
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Fourth
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Carmen Borrero
|
Devil's Kiss of Fire
|
Georgia
|
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Fifth
|
Lisa Koohns
|
I look around
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Indiana
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First
Amateur
|
Delores Almond
|
Broken
|
Virginia
|
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Honorable
Mention
|
Laide Salako
|
WE ARE NOT BLACK
|
Nigeria
|
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Honorable
Mention
|
Mary Poe (not related)
|
"Not without my Daughter"
(A Dedication to Betty Mahmoody) |
California
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