Announcing the Winners of The Willamette Store's 3rd Annual Poetry Contest!

Thank you to all our participants!

Adult Unrhymed:

1.    Lois Rosen - Untoppled,and The Day of Diagnosis (tie)
2.    Charles Dallman – Ode to Licorice
3.    Dorothy Dasch Lukins – Columbia Gorge Images

Adult Rhymed:

1.     Carmela Coyne – Sweet Tooth Suite
2.    Bruce Wayne Wolf – Computer Glitch
3.   (tie)
    Tim Pfau – Twenty Five Years
    Linda McGillis – Doggeral

Adult Haiku:

1.     Debby Corey -- Untitled
2.    B. Wayne Coyne  – Salem's Olive Branch
3.   Tim Pfau – Unexpected Gift

Youth Unrhymed Grades 1-4

1.    Isaac King – Untitled
2.    Mary Madison Chicolte – It's Dark
3.    (tie)
Sonya Ceballos – Tetherball
Trevor Hestor – Tyrannosaurus

Youth Rhymed Grades 1-4

1.    Emma Seidenberg – The White Coat of Jefferson
2.    Madeline King -- Untitled
3.    Aimee Harb – Guilt

Youth Haiku Grades 1-4

1.    Riley Yunker -- Untitled
2.    Kalvin Regain -- Untitled
3.    (tie)
Garret Miner – Skiing
Drew Miner – Soccer


Youth Unrhymed Grades 5-8

1.    Mikela Rayburn -- Late at Night
2.    Vivian Lu --  Countryside Girl
3.    Paris McCartney – Poem About Poets Struggles for a Masterpiece

Youth Rhymed Grades 5-8

1.    Emily Smaldone -- The Under Toad
2.    Rachel Villarreal -- Speed
3.    Griffin Dobbes – Sledding

Youth Haiku Grades 5-8

1.    Peyton Nash -- Untitled
2.    Darick Roy --  Untitled
3.    Madison Morrell – Untitled

Youth Unrhymed Grades 9-12

1.    Arthur E. Pichou – Memorial Service
2.    Eleanor Ellis -- Elemental
3.    Joanne Lua – Dande Lion's Heart

Youth Rhymed Grades 9-12

1.    Stef Benson – Fanfare for Hadron
2.    Hailey Wadsworth – Rejection
3.    Tom Fleming – What's Become of the Gifts Privileged From Above?


Youth Haiku Grades 9-12

1.    Hailey Wadsworth -- Untitled
2.    Greg Elshire -- Untitled
3.   Lawrence Wagner -- Untitled

Current Issue: Fall 2008

Past Issues

Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2008

Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 2007

Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2007

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