This year’s Poets’ Corner contest has come to an end, and the results are in! Check below for the names of all the winning poets, and make sure to come celebrate with them (and us)! The winning poems will be read at the Poets’ Corner Contest Reception to be held on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. on the Main Floor at the McHenry Museum, 1402 I Street.
Winning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet.
Winners in the Adult – General Submissions Category
Ed Bearden for The Call
Pat Egenberger for Three Haiku
Lynn Hansen for Choir of Canaries
Nancy Haskett for Crayola Memories
Louise Kantro for Elegy for Felix
Angelique Limatoc Arnold for A Good Sunny Day
Nancee Kinkaid Maya for San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
Tom Portwood for Christmas Season, 1958
Gary Thomas for and to the young ravens when they cry
Winners in the Adult – Special Submissions Category
Roberta Bearden for Still Gray Morning
Virginia Dall for Signals
Pat Egenberger for Earth
Tom Myers for Transformation
Stephen E. Peters for Bristlecone
Linda Marie Prather for Tree Trimming
Gordon Preston for Last Summer Eggs
Mary Rodgers for Ranchito Rio Tuolumne
Naomi Ward for Kentucky Memory
Gillian Wegener for Rain After Drought
Winners in the Children – General Submission Category
Katherine Andrews for A Mother’s Lie
Hayden Dinsdale for Animals Being Happy
Arshaun Faraji for Snow
Ann Marie Hendricks for My Dog Princess
Elsa Jesberg for Apple Tree
Tabitha Jory for Orca, oh Orca
Jose Guadalupe Martinez for Three Haiku
Ella Oliver for Family
Annabelle Rousseau for Untitled
Austin Salazar for The Lonesome Cowboy
Gabriella Sanchez for Unable to Justify
Katelin Urgo for Her Mind
Winners in the Children – Special Submission Category
Carson Carranza for Fire on Ice
Vinay Channaveerappa for A Dancer Called ‘Fire’
Avery Cloward for Down There
Lizzie Doll for Fire
Maeg Domingo for Brother Son and Sister Moon
Emma Garber for The Rain of Beauty
Nandini Naidu for Rain! Rain!
Raymond Noriega for Fire
Agustin Valdes for Elemental Beauty