2022 FSPA Contests’ Results

1. FSPA FREE VERSE AWARD 
1st — Victor Klimoski — This Is My Body
2nd—Diane Neff — Today
3rd—Juli Simon — Boat Nights
1 hm—Sally Wahl Constain — Insurrection
2 hm—Shutta Crum — Autobiography of a Love Affair|
3 hm—Juli Simon — Magic

2. FSPA FORMAL VERSE AWARD
1st—Susan Stahr — Sonnet 43.5
2nd—Lynn Schiffhorst — St. Brendan’s Music
3rd—Judith Krum — Shallott’s Shadows
1 hm—Janna Schledorn — Growing Up
2 hm—John F. Foster — A Loss for Words
3 hm—B.J. Alligood — The Non-returnable Gift

3. THE LIVE POETS SOCIETY AWARD
1st—Anna Styrczula — An Elegy for Bay Oaks Apartments
2nd—Shutta Crum — Submarining
3rd—Betty Prisendorf — A Halloween Party
1 hm—Gail Denham — Nightmare Haunts
2 hm—Sharon Scholl — Fairwell Chopin
3 hm—Anthony Ehrlich — Endangered Species

4. TOMOKA POETS AWARD
1st —Janet Watson — Onstage Tonight
2nd—Diane Neff — The Beach
3rd—Barbara Blanks — Reconnected
1 hm—Mark Andrew James Terry — Invitation to Stroll on the Shore
2 hm—Llewellyn McKernan — Corn Hill, Truro, Cape Cod
3 hm—Betty Prisendorf — South Beach

5. WILLARD B. FOSTER MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Sara Gipson — He Wed Pie
2nd—Peter M. Gordon — Lox
3rd—Elaine Person — Foodie
1 hm—Janet Watson — Her Bread
2 hm—Barbara Blanks — A Taste of Summe
3 hm—Beverly Stanislawski — Mac and Cheese

6. THE RONDEAU AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — When Darkness Falls
2nd —V. Kimball Barney —When I Am Gone
3rd—Paul Buchheit — The Morning Wood
1 hm—Holly Mandelkern — Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
2 hm—Diane Neff — So Much to Prove
3 hm—Barbara Blanks — We Can’t Let Go

7. JUNE OWENS MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Sara Gipson — More than Mirages
2nd—Christian Shute — Mirage
3rd—Barbara Blanks — A Barely Rain
1 hm—Jerri Hardesty — haiku
2 hm—Elaine Person — Blind Illusion
3 hm—Marianne Peel —Searching

8. THE POET’S VISION AWARD
1st—Catherine Moran — Writing on the Edge
2nd—Suzanne S. Austin-Hill — Someday I Want To
3rd—Marianne Peel — On Hearing Your Daughter Ended Her Life
1 hm—Nick Sweet — Redamancy, If …
2 hm—Sandra Lake Lassen — Earth Chant
3 hm—Sara Gipson — Single Leaf Trapped In Ice
4 hm—Julie Kim Shavin — (Untitled)

9. NEW RIVER POETS AWARD
1st—B.J. Alligood — Chemical Reaction
2nd—Tanya R. Whitney — The Book
3rd—Cheryl A. Van Beek — Parting Gifts
1 hm—Lynn Schiffhorst — In Praise of Gray
2 hm—Catherine Moran — To Reach Outside Ourselves
3 hm—Diane Neff — Silence

10. ALFRED VON BROKOPH AWARD
1st—Diane Neff — Love and Liberation
2nd—Jerri Hardesty — She was the One
3rd—Dr.  Emory D. Jones — Reflections
1 hm—V. Kimball Barney — Bound Together
2 hm—Lynn Schiffhorst — Let’s Always Be Lovers
3 hm—Janet Watson — After Sixty Years of Sleeping Together

11. HOWARD & SANDY GORDON MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Victor Klimoski — A Christmas Story
2nd—Lynn Schiffhorst — Wildflowers 1953
3rd—Howard Moon — Bacon and Frybread
1 hm—Sharlyn Page — Rain on Mounds
2 hm—Bruce Woodworth — The Trick is in the Folding
3 hm—Gail Denham — A Day’s Blessing of Grandkids

12. JANET BINKLEY ERWIN MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — Dancing Poetry
2nd—Marianne Peel — A Peacable Kingdom At Denny’s
3rd—Holly Mandelkern — Eclipsed Beauty
1 hm—Tim Schulz — Radiance
2 hm—Marlene Kann — Lasting Memories
3 hm—Suzanne S. Austin-Hill — Strength in Silence

13. NOAH WEBSTER AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — A Magical Moment
2nd—Mark Andrew James Terry — Ole Whiskey’s Hat
3rd—Holly Mandelkern — TAPS
1 hm—Judith Krum — Metamorphosis

14. KATE KENNEDY MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Cheryl A. Van Beek — Theater of the Wind
2nd—Nancy K. Hauptle MacInnes — Wind Chime
3rd—Judith Krum — The Wind Beckons
1 hm—Mary Rogers-Grantham  — Stains in the Wind
2 hm—Julie Kim Shavin — Capricious Calling
3 hm—Gail Denham — Beach Winds

15. HENRIETTA & MARK KROAH FOUNDERS AWARD 
1st—Ruth Van Alstine — (Untitled)
2nd—Judith Krum — The Handfasting
3rd—Diane Neff — Wedding Vows
1 hm—Lyn Sedwick — It’s Not Official
2 hm—Nancy K. Hauptle MacInnes — The Great Wedding Feast
3 hm—Janet Watson — Why I Cry At Weddings

16. PAST PRESIDENTS AWARD
1st—Dr. Emory D. Jones — Border Country
2nd—Gail Denham — The Best For Last … Love For The Ages
3rd—Elaine Person — Don’t Make Waves Like I Did: Advice to My Niece
1 hm—Marianne Peel — Collateral Damage
2 hm—Ruth Van Alstine — The Bell
3 hm—Catherine Moran — The Art of Discarding

17. CURRENT ISSUES AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — A Sinking Feeling
2nd—Judith Krum — A Servant of the People
3rd—Mark Andrew James Terry — 7.8 Billion Lambs to Slaughter

18. ORLANDO AREA POETS AWARD
1st—Marianne Peel — Terminal Recipe
2nd—Holly Mandelkern — Tainted Objects
3rd—Cheryl A. Van Beek — Window Gazing
1 hm—Sharon Scholl — Woman in the Game
2 hm—Barbara Blanks — In the Corridors of My Own Mind
3 hm Sandra Lake Lassen — Mullions

19. LESLIE HALPERN MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Sara Gipson — Great Smokey Mountain Dreamer
2nd—Judith Krum — Moonbeams and Dreams
3rd—Lynn Schiffhorst — Why I Can’t Tell You My Dreams
1 hm—Carolynn J. Scully — Shadows
2 hm—Lorraine Jeffery —Only A Dream
3 hm—BettyAnn Whitney —Zen Dreaming

20. HUMOR AWARD
1st—Beverly Stanislawski — Bubblicious
2nd—B.J. Alligood — Over Fifty (to the tune “Tropical Heat Wave)
3rd—Ruth Keally — Rat-A-Tat-Tat
1 hm—Janet Watson — Chow Time at the Ranch
2 hm—Diane Neff — Feeding the Birds in London
3 hm—Michael Wright — A Stubborn Sirloin Steak

21. MINUTE AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — Invisible Music
2nd—Janice Freytag — An Acorn Fell
3rd—BettyAnn Whitney — Between Earth and Sky
1 hm—Sara Gipson — Autumn in the woods
2 hm—Mark Andrew James Terry — A Poem Forms
3 hm—Beverly Stanislowski —A Slice of Pie

22. CHILDHOOD AWARD
1st—Lorraine Jeffery — A White Word
2nd—Jerri Hardesty — Stolen Treasure
3rd—Paula Veloso Babadi — Two R’s
1 hm—Janet Watson —Pilgrimage
2 hm—Judith Krum — From Whoville to Goodnight Moon
3 hm—Mark Andrew James Terry — Effect of Reading

23. WEINBAUM/GLIDDEN AWARD
1st—Peter M. Gordon — Danny
2nd—Mark Andrew James Terry — The Stars Are Out
3rd—Mary Ellen Orvis — Voices
1 hm—Judith Krum — Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
2 hm—Gary Ketchum — Agorophobia
3 hm—Janet Watson — My Very Good Friends

24. THE ENCHANTMENT AWARD
1st—Sharlyn Page — Terrible Beauty
2nd —Llewellyn McKernan — A Ghost Walks
3rd—Susan Stahr — Hole in the Nighttime
1 hm—Lynn Schiffhorst — It’s Halloween! Look Up!
2 hm—Peter M. Gordon — Ghosts
3 hm—Christian Shute — Plains Phantom

25. MIAMI POETS AWARD
1st—Virginia Nygard — Empathy
2nd—Catherine Moran — The Ways I Can Reach
3rd—Carolynn Scully — In Suffering
1 hm—Barbara Blanks — No Wonder He Created Us
2 hm—Pat Bonner Milone — The Elusiveness of Empathy
3 hm—Peter M. Gordon  — Aphrodisiac

26. EKPHRASTIC POEM 
1st—Holly Mandelkern — And I Wonder
2nd—Janet Watson — Captured on Cloth
3rd—Victor Klimoski — Melancholy
1 hm—Catherine  Moran — Contemplating the Pieta
2 hm—Marianne Peel — Peasant Woman with Cat
3 hm—Robert V. Davis — Roxy’s Final Chapter

27. TRIOLET AWARD
1st—Janet Watson — Navy Coffee
2nd—Robyn Weinbaum — Café Lucca, very late, on a Tuesday
3rd—Gary Ketchum — Cuban Coffee
1 hm—Suzanne S. Austin-Hill — Modern-day Moroccan Mystic’s Miracle
2 hm—Janice L. Freytag —I Start the Day
3 hm— Barbara Blanks — Give Me the Real Thing

28. SHERWOOD ROSS AWARD FOR HUMOROUS POETRY
1st—Betty Prisendorf — Thoughts of a Brit Visiting Florida
for the First Time
2nd—Donna Isaac — Out to Eat, 205
3rd—Sandra Lake Lassen — Leave Before the Lettuce Curls
1 hm—Peter M. Gordon — Comma Separated Values
2 hm—Jerri Hardesty — It’s Double Vision
3 hm—Pat Bonner Milone — Florida is Sinking!

29. NORTH FLORIDA POETRY HUB AWARD
1st—Nancy Simmonds — Remembering The Dream
2nd—Peter M. Gordon — My Church Is A Book Store
3rd—Barbara Blanks —The Circling Shar
1 hm—Sara Gipson — Hope for a Ranch
2 hm—Gail Denham — Self Talk Kills Ballroom Dreams
3 hm—Janet Watson — No Hunger Here

30. CHB PUBLICATIONS AWARD
1st—Holly Mandelkern — The Woods He Cut
2nd—B.J. Alligood — The Tree Frog Outside My Door
3rd—Sharlyn Page — The Wheel of Birds
1 hm—Mark Andrew James Terry — Beneath His Oak
2 hm—BettyAnn Whitney — Without Waiting to be Introduced
3 hm—V. Kimball Barney —Nice to Meet You. Marry Me?

31. THE LOOK DEEPER AWARD
1st—Judith Krum — Angst for the Common Man
2nd—Sally Wahl Constain — In The Silver Rain (by Langston Hughes)
3rd—Sharlyn Page — (Entry for the Look Deeper Award)
1 hm—Marc Davidson — Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
(Di. Thomas)
2 hm—Julie Kim Shavin  — Recompense
3 hm—Jerri Hardesty — Ode to Walt

32. THE JOSEPHINE DAVIDSON MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Paul Buchheit — Touring Test
2nd—Sara Gipson — Spring Invitation
3rd—Barbara Blanks — Give Me Books or Give Me … More Books
1 hm—Mark Andrew James Terry — Ode to the Josephine Davidson
Theater
2 hm—V. Kimball Barney — Changing the World
3 hm—Sharlyn Page — Rampart

33. MAE’S KITCHEN MEMORIAL AWARD
1st—Cheryl A. Van Beek — Wedding Cookies
2nd—Sharlyn Page — Grandmother’s Birthday Dinner,
The Table Set  Before Her
3rd—Diane Neff — Babicka (Grandmother)
1 hm—Ellen Nielsen — Making Tortillas
2 hm—Pat Bonner Milone — Roadkill: True Story
3 hm—Donna Isaac — Grandmothers North and South

34. MILLIE’S GARDEN AWARD
1st—Paul Buchheit — Alice Meets the Caterpillar in the Garden
2nd—Becky Alexander — A Startle of Leaves
3rd—Chris Kastle — Wild Roses
1 hm—Pat Krause — Musings on a Yellow Butterfly
2 hm—Cheryl A. Van Beek — Bee’s People
3 hm—Jerri Hardesty — The Lone Diner

35. NATURAL FLORIDA AWARD
1st—Holly Mandelkern —Ever Green
2nd—Shutta Crum — Early Walk Along the River
3rd—Peter M. Gordon — Kissimmee Cattle Drive
1 hm—Janet Watson — Big River
2 hm—Marc Davidson — Ways
3 hm—Chris Kastle — Darkness and Dawn

36. SOUTH FLORIDA POETS AWARD
1st—Jerri Hardesty — Career Change
2nd—Amy Irish — Steford Barbie
3rd—Janet Watson — Perfection
1 hm—Judith Krum — Happy Birthday Kinky
2 hm—Marianne Peel — Barbie and I Share the Same Birth Year
3 hm—Dr. Emory D. Jones — Old Woman Barbie