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 Edgar Allan Poe. 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. Sadly, the amateur prize could not be awarded because no amateur entries were received. To all the fledging poets out there, you will never know if your poetry is good enough to win unless you enter.

Place	Poet	Poem	Location
First	Ryan Tilley	World Wide Web	Florida
Second	Taunja Thomson	The Raven (Erasure from Poe)	Kentucky
Third	Carmen Borrero	Out of the Box	Georgia
Fourth	Delores Almond	Hood Lies	Virginia
Fifth	Taunja Thomson	Sea Witch (Frank Frazetta, 1966)	Kentucky
First Amateur	No Entry	N/A	N/A
Honorable Mention	Alex Ogoh Owulo	The Forsaken Tradition	Nigeria
Honorable Mention	Ryan Tilley	The Ghost of Happiness in Fiddler’s Pond	Florida