The Political Poet 2012 Contest Finalists Announced

The Political Poet would like to thank everyone who submitted poems for the Poetry Month Competition in Honor of Robert Frost. Poets brought the heat this year making the judging fierce. 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. Finalists’ poems and bios will be posted throughout the month of April. Any Honorable Mentions will be posted at the end of March.

Place	Poet	Poem	Location
First	Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt	You Made Me Feel Illegal	Virginia
Second	Bob McNeil	Billfold Souls	New York
Third	Julie Heckman	Sanity	California
Fourth	Alice Connally Fisk	OBAMA 2012	New York
Fifth	Taunja Thomson	Reflection (after E.D.)	Kentucky
Honorable Mention	Stephen Bell	Entertainment Law	England

Honorable Mention	Kirby Wright	Vypadni	California
Honorable Mention	Renee V. McCormick	Principal Deficit	New York

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