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Unread 02-15-2021, 04:05 PM
Mark McDonnell Mark McDonnell is offline
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Hello!

Just got an email. My poem "My Brother And I Do Tricks Dad Taught Us" got on the shortlist for the 2021 Poetry By The Sea "Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest". Cathy Chandler is there too. People here may know other names on the list.

Yay!

Edit: I just spotted Ned Balbo in the Sonnet Crown list. I know Ned. Well done Ned!

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Shortlist of Individual Sonnets

“An Aging Poet Explains” by David Southward (FIRST PRIZE WINNER)

“Leave of Absence” by Elizabeth M. Johnson (HONORABLE MENTION)

“Because Dementia Runs in His Family” by Ashley Anna McHugh

“Blank” by Bruce Bennett

“For My Grandson, Brady, Born in the Year of the Pandemic” by Catherine Chandler

“Headstand” by John Steele

“Failure to Convert” by Jean Kreiling

“Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait, 1972 (Cr72-04)” by Peter Kline

“My Brother and I Do Tricks Dad Taught Us” by Mark McDonnell

“Muse” by Anna Graue

“To the Jazz Combo Setting Up on the Sidewalk Outside the Wine Bar” by Kathleen McClung

“Unspoken” by Bruce Bennett



SONNET CROWN

Shortlist of Sonnet Crowns

"The Messenger" by Susan Delaney Spear (FIRST PRIZE WINNER)

"Dodging the Pillars of Religion" by Lee Nash (HONORABLE MENTION)

"At the Cathedral of St. John the Divine" by Ned Balbo

"Corona, Corona" by David Kellogg

"Snow // Smoke" by Erica Bodwell

"Stirred for a Bird" by Mia Schilling Grogan



Thank you again to contest judge, Jenna Le, and to all the poets who helped make this year’s contest a success!

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Unread 02-15-2021, 11:16 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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That's exciting! Congratulations to all those on the shortlist. (If you workshopped yours here, Mark, I missed it, and look forward to reading it sometime.)
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Thanks Julie!

I emailed you the poem.

Just to be clear (because "got on the shortlist" from my post is ambiguous) the competition is over. I was close-but-no-cigar, bridesmaid not bride, the shied core striking the basket haha. Very pleased though!

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Congrats, Mark.
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Good going, mate!!!!!

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Unread 02-17-2021, 05:12 AM
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Thanks Walter and Cally!

OK that's enough plaudits for something I didn't actually win. Well done to all on the list.

Onward!
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Unread 02-17-2021, 01:39 PM
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I'm late. One more! Congratulations!

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Congratulations to Mark, Cathy, and Ned. Jean Kreiling also used to be active here, and Bruce Bennett has judged a poetry contest for Eratosphere.

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