Monday, March 31, 2014

The Political Poet Poetry Competition Awards Winners Announced


 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.

Place
Poet
Poem
Location
First
Bob McNeil
Text to Resurrect Revolution
New York
Second
Shawn Hamilton
McDonalds and Disneyland in Baghdad
California
Third
Taunja Thompson
These Blues
(for Shane)
Kentucky
Fourth
Carmen Borrero
Devil's Kiss of Fire
Georgia
Fifth
Lisa Koohns
I look around
Indiana
First Amateur
Delores Almond
Broken
Virginia
Honorable Mention
Laide Salako
WE ARE NOT BLACK
Nigeria
Honorable Mention
Mary Poe (not related)
"Not without my Daughter"
(A Dedication to Betty Mahmoody)
California