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