Illinois State Poetry Society
16th Annual Contest Results for 2009

Free Verse:
First place: "When the Frost Appeared"  by Catherine Moran of Little Rock, AR

Second place: "The Shortest Day"  by Donna Pucciani of Wheaton, IL

Third place: "Growing Old" by Jim Barton of Huttig, AR

First Honorable mention: "Panic at Milepost 42" by Judith Hill of Locust Grove, VA

Second Honorable Mention: "The Last Line" by Catherine Moran of Little Rock, AR

Third Honorable Mention: "Slipping Away" by Beth Staas of Westmont, IL
 
 
Formal Verse:
First place: "Horizon" by Lee Ann Russell of Springfield, MO

Second place: "Frost and Sandburg at the Library of Congress" by Jim Barton
of Huttig, AR

Third place: "Artist Remake the Snowflake" by Larry Turner of Fredericksburg, VA

First Honorable Mention: "Destination" by Larry Turner of Fredericksburg, VA

Second Honorable Mention: "Singer on the Isle of Stones" by Maureen Tolman
Flannery of Evanston, IL

Third Honorable Mention: "Mountain Breeze" by Joyce Shiver of Crystal River, FL
 
 
Lincoln and Darwin
First Place: "Merlins Too" by Kolette Montague of Centerville, UT

Second Place:  "Gettysburg Voice" by Ted O. Badger of Houston, TX

Third Place: "A Simple Man" by Amy Steffen Haerr of Eureka, IL

Honorable Mentions:
"In Lincoln's Footsteps" by Carolyn Sibr of Clarendon Hills, IL
"Tending Darwin's Garden" by Beth Staas of Westmont, IL
"Evolving" by John J. Gordon of La Grange, IL