Category 1: The FSPA Free Verse Award
1st — Diane Neff — The Moldau
2nd — Shutta Crum — In and Out of the Stormlight
3rd — Teresa TL Bruce — Asylum
1st HM — Christine Cock — Dementia
2nd HM — Linda Eve Diamond — The Character of Contrasts
3rd HM — Johnette Kievin — Estate Sale
Category 2: The FSPA Formal Verse Award
1st — Karen Kay Bailey — A Killing Field Memorialized, Battle of the Washita, 27 November 1868
2nd — Ellen Nielsen — Hawks
3rd — Catherine Moran — Listening for our voice
1st HM — Rita Aiken Moritz — I Could Have Danced with Water Nymphs
2nd HM — BettyAnn Whitney — Time for Home
3rd HM — Holly Mandelkern — Shades of White
Category 3: The Live Poets Society of Daytona Beach Award
1st — Mary Rogers-Grantham — Listening is Final
2nd — Tim Schulz — Family Ties-Shackles
3rd — Katherine Nelson-Born — Polishing the Silver
1st HM — Marianne Peel — The Somnambulists Meet in The Dark Garden
2nd HM — Tanya Young — Watching My Mother
3rd HM Ellen Nielsen — Legend of the Saco River
Category 4: The Tomoka Poets Award
1st — Kenice Grand Broughman — Changeless Waves
2nd — Kyra Von Brokaph — With Zorba on the Beach
3rd — Dr. Emory D. Jones — Moon Streak
1st HM — Cheryl A. Van Beek — Tides
2nd HM — Jerri Hardesty — Shout
3rd HM — Janet Watson — Beachcombing At Sunset
Category 5: The Willard B. Foster Memorial Award
1st — Holly Mandelkern — Packing Their Bags
2nd — Suzanne A. Austin-Hill — The Coronacation Chronicles — Day Forty-two Pandemic-issued Bowl of Chips
3rd — Susan Stahr — Pondering$
1st HM — Diane Neff — Anthem
2nd HM — Trina Lee — The Parade
3rd HM — Mary Ellen Orvis — Out of the Rain
Category 6: The Penny For Your Thoughts Award
1st — Janet Watson — She Never Trusted Banks
2nd — Peter M. Gordon — Bed, Bath, Beyond
3rd — Lorraine Jeffery — Divorce
1st HM — Gail Denham — Ode To a Good Author
2nd HM — Holly Mandelkern — Waiting Your Turn
3rd HM — Marianne Peel — Collateral Damage
Category 7: The June Owens Memorial Award
1st — Cheryl A. Van Beek — Garden Hub
2nd — Carolynn J. Scully — Across the States
3rd — Holly Mandelkern — Wheels of Rhyme
1st HM — Marc Davidson — Monstrous Engines
2nd HM — Patricia Barnes — The Trucker
3rd HM — Janet Watson — The Wheels of Progress
Category 8: The New River Poets Award
1st — Mark Andrew James Terry — Rubaiyat of Remembrance
2nd — Nancy Simmonds — River Song
3rd — Holly Mandelkern — Basket Weaving: Turning a Tale
1st HM — John F. Foster — If I Were an Old Shoe
2nd HM — Shutta Crum — The Last Synaptic Hurrah
3rd HM — Peggy Burgess — Morendo
Category 9: The Poet’s Vision Award
1st — Shutta Crum — Fata Morgana
2nd — Linda Eve Diamond — Still Life
3rd — Christine Cock — A Prayer Wheel of Suffering Thoughts
1st HM — Daniel Moreschi — The Making of a Dragonfly
2nd HM — Tanya Young — The Florida Tree
3rd HM — Marianne Peel — What Scares You/What Scares Me
Category 10: The Alfred Von Brokoph Award
1st — Jerri Hardesty — The Nature of Love
2nd — Dr. Emory D. Jones — Eyes of Love
3rd — BettyAnn Whitney — Seasons of Summer and Winter
1st HM — Lorraine Jeffery — Rockfall
2nd HM — Dan Fitzgerald — Rain on the Porch
3rd HM — Trina Lee — Seeing You Again
Category 11: The Janet Binkley Erwin Memorial Award
1st — Anita Dees — Women are Crazy
2nd — Howard Moon — Boats sit quietly – idly in the harbor
3rd — Diane Neff — Remember Me
1st HM — Peter M. Gordon — Antiquing in Allen, Michigan
2nd HM — BettyAnn Whitney — At the Meet & Greet
3rd HM — Trina Lee — Shopping Spree\
Category 12: The Kate Kennedy Memorial Award
1st — Cheryl A. Van Beek — Collectors
2nd — Christine Cock — In Place Beneath
3rd — Diane Neff — Dreams of the Kingdom
1st HM — Tanya Young — Walking the Blind Dog In the Graveyard at Dusk
2nd HM — Virginia Nygard — Little Guy
3rd HM— Nancy Hauptle MacInnes — Bird Catcher
Category 13: The Henrietta & Mark Kroah Founders Award
1st — Christa Fairbrother — Engagement
2nd — Ellen Neilsen — Having It Both Ways
3rd — Mark Andrew James Terry — After So Many Years
1st HM — Katherine Nelson-Born — Beach Musings and Wedding Rings under a Tangerine Sky
2nd HM — Michael Wright — A Questionable Proposal
3rd HM — BettyAnn Whitney — Garden Nuptials
Category 14: The Past Presidents’ Award
1st — Nancy Simmonds — When Spirit Dancers Play
2nd — Mary Rogers-Grantham — Growing into Grown
3rd — Daniel Moreschi — Fleeting Flutters
1st HM — Christa Fairbrother — Epistolary to my Local Mollusk Community
2nd HM — Cheryl A. Van Beek — Watershed
3rd HM — Elizabeth A. Jenkins — Note to Self
Category 15: The Orlando Area Poets Award
1st — Shutta Crum — In Place
2nd — Gail Denham — Rescuing Gramps
3rd — Sharon Scholl — For My Ninety-first Birthday
1st HM — B.J. Alligood — Probing the Sea Floor
2nd HM — Jerri Hardesty — The Scarecrow’s Lament
3rd HM — Nick Sweet — To Roy: for his 100th birthday
Category 16: The Leslie Halpern Memorial Award
1st — Shutta Crum — Grandpa Sings His Song
2nd — Mark Andrew James Terry — How Sad, The Fools
3rd — Daniel Moreschi — A Starling-studded Show
1st HM — Catherine Moran — Only the numbers matter
2nd HM — Janet Watson — Preserved
3rd HM — Nylda Dieppa — I Miss You
Category 17: The Humor Award
1st — Marc Davidson — Annoying
2nd — Gary J. Weston — The Simple Poet
3rd —Holly Mandelkern — The Myth and Math of Symmetry
1st HM — Lee Fanning Hall — Food for Thought
2nd HM — Chris Kastle — At a Yard Sale
3rd HM — Jerri Hardesty — Child’s Play
Category 18: The Childhood Award
1st — John F. Foster — Bug-a-BOO!
2nd — Elaine Person — Life Lessons
3rd — Gail Denham — Plethora of Teachers Did Their Job
1st HM — Susan Stahr — Cartwheels of Time
2nd HM — Janet Watson — On the Bookshelf of Childhood
3rd HM — Shutta Crum — Into the Creative Beyond
Category 19: The Weinbaum/Glidden Award
1st — Mary Ellen Orvis — My Tectonic Heart
2nd — Jerri Hardesty — Girlfriends
3rd — Sara Gipson — Garden Weeds
1st HM — Marlene Kann — Suppression
2nd HM — Howard Moon — Official flavors
3rd HM — Chris Kastle — Making a Rainbow
Category 20: The Irwin & Estelle Weinbaum Memorial Award
1st — Jerri Hardesty — The Right to Rights
2nd — Elaine Person — Age Rage, Turned Away
3rd — Gary Ketchum — Inside The Dreadful Mind of an Unrepentant Bigot and His Utter Disdain for Marginalized “Other” People
1st HM — Mary Ellen Orvis — Unhoused
Category 21: The Enchantment Award
1st — Mark Andrew James Terry — The Legend of Alengore, Valensteeds and Bonnymeeds
2nd — Chris Kastle — Mermaid
3rd — Jerri Hardesty — Changeling
1st HM — Gail Denham — Things That Go Bump
2nd HM — Rita Aiken Moritz — Impression Has Been Made and They Are One
3rd HM — Elaine Person — (Haiku)
Category 22: The Ekphrastic Poem Award
1st — Robert V. Davis — Yellowstone 1988
2nd — Holly Mandelkern — Fourth Grade Class Photo
3rd — Cheryl A. Van Beek — The Holler
1st HM — Linda Eve Diamond — The Sage Cat
2nd HM — Fred Briggs — Ca’ Dario
3rd HM — Angie M. Mayo — Destruction
Category 23: The Jock G. & George K. Terry Award
1st — Amy Wray Irish — The Crow Brothers
2nd — Mary Ellen Orvis — In Memory of My Brother
3rd — Anita Dees — What a Brother Can Do
1st HM — Nylda Dieppa — Sisterhood
2nd HM — Marianne Peel — My Brother, Dirt Bike Racing
3rd HM — Robert V. Davis — Surviving
Category 24: The North Florida Poetry Hub Award
1st — Lorraine Jeffery — Eye Witness
2nd — Tanya Young — Between the Lines
3rd — Nancy Simmonds — In Praise of February
1st HM — Sharon Rhyne — On Miscarriages and Gardening and the Hope of Seeds
2nd HM — Beverly Stan Stanislawski — Keeping Hope Alive
3rd HM — Sara Gipson — Around the Christmas Tree
Category 25: The CHB Publications Award
1st — Nancy Simmonds — The King’s Son
2nd — Daniel Moreschi — Kindled Cascades
3rd — Mary Ellen Orvis — Urban Soothsayer
1st HM — Sharon Scholl — Time’s Signature
2nd HM — Karen Kay Bailey — Among the Leavings
3rd HM — Nick Sweet — Brad, Kim and Ted (RIP)
Category 26: The Look Deeper Award
1st — Anita Dees — I, Too, Have Been Her Kind
2nd — B. Shawn Clark — Frozen In Place
3rd — Janet Watson — Entering the Magic
1st HM — Shutta Crum — Maraschino\
2nd HM — Jerri Hardesty — Ode to Walt
3rd HM — Rita Aiken Moritz — Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Category 27: The Josephine Davidson Memorial Award
1st — Jerri Hardesty — Silent Accord
2nd — Diane Neff — Avalanche
3rd — Anita Dees — Years After the Wild Fire
1st HM — Fred Briggs — Sakura
2nd HM — Holly Mandelkern — Remembering Dana Irwin, June 2023
3rd HM — Marc Davidson — Rubaiyat Of Julius Meinl (Et Al)
Category 28: The Sower And The Seed Award
1st — Lorraine Jeffery — Heartwood and Owls
2nd — Rita Aiken Moritz — I Don’t Know Jack About Green Energy
3rd — Mary Ellen Orvis — Nurture All Nature
1st HM — Kenny Charnell — Garden Coffee
2nd HM — Jerri Hardesty — Mother Earth
3rd HM — Fred Briggs — Genesis 2:15
Category 29: The Homeplace Award
1st — Marc Davidson — Florida Afternoons
2nd — Jerri Hardesty — This House Will Stand
3rd — Elaine Person — Solid Ground
1st HM — Holly Mandelkern — Native Ground
2nd HM — Tanya Young — Weekend Visit
3rd HM — Janet Watson — Searching For My Childhood Home On Google Earth