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2009 NCSU Poetry Contest

Guest Judge ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT

Well, the results are in, thanks to some heavy judicial lifting by our Guest Judge Ellen Bryant Voigt. We have, it seems, a tie--the first year that's happened, but we agree with Ellen. It was too tough a call to decide between Rachel and Rebecca. And congratulations to NCSU English senior Robert Greene whose poem got into the finals, thereby making him the natural winner of the Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Award which goes to the highest esteemed poem from an NC State undergraduate. If you sent a poem in, we thank you for participating and hope you'll give it another shot next year. And please join us, Tuesday evening, April 7th at 7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge, for a presentation of the winners AND a sure-to-be-entertaining poetry reading from two-time National Book Award nominee Ellen Bryant Voigt. Here are the results...

(Tie) Winners of the 2009 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:

Rachel Richardson, "One Summer" (Greensboro, NC) Rebecca Warren, "In the Neighborhood of Fire" (Greensboro, NC)

Honorable Mentions

Hannah Bonner, "What We Hope For" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Sarah Cox, "An Invocation, Revised" (Greensboro, NC)
Megan Roberts, "My Father's Side" (Raleigh, NC)

Fellow Finalists

Sarah Archer, "Life-long iron lung user dies during power failure" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Donald Ball, "All This" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Michael Colonnese, "Dead Spike Buck on the Blue Ridge Parkway" (Fayetteville, NC)
Alexandra Distler, "Debt" (Raleigh, NC)
Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy" (Raleigh, NC)
Elizabeth Jackson, "Hanging On" (Raleigh, NC)
Jeff Miles, "The Quiet Country" (Greensboro, NC)
Robert McCall, "Bodies Out of Motion" (Saluda, NC)
Matt Poindexter, "Learning to Whistle" (Carrboro, NC)
Mark Spring, "His First Time" (Raleigh, NC)
Shannon Ward, "The Butcher" (Raleigh, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize

Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy"
English major, senior (Raleigh, NC)

The American Academy of Poets Prize (for graduate students)

Celeste Doaks (Raleigh, NC)

2008 WINNERS as picked by

Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK

Winner of the 2008 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
C.G. Thompson, "Post Card to Ravinna " (Greenville, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Don Ball, "After the Dead " (Chapel Hill, NC)
William Blackley , "For God's Sake " (Elkin, NC)
Juliana Daugherty, "Ephphatha" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Brian Ownbey, "Sanctuary" (Raleigh, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Jane Andrews, "The Cowboy Way" (Raleigh, NC)
Mark Jay Brewin, "Todo Que Saben Es Trabajo" (Elon, NC)
Sarah Bull, "The Library Janitor" (Durham, NC)
Jessie Carty, "Best Friends " (Charlotte, NC)
Sarah Cox, "The Cartography of Winter " (Burlington, NC)
Eloise Gilster, "Market Watch" (Raleigh, NC)
Sean Honea, "Melatonin Blues " (Chapel Hill, NC)
Elizabeth Jackson, "Memorial Hospital, Chapel HIll, NC"

(Raleigh, NC)
Ariel Rudolph, "Writing in Dust" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Sarah Servie, "City Lights " (Raleigh, NC)
Jennifer Smyre, "Coffee Shop" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Robert Wells, "Separation" (Chapel Hill, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart
Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Jeannine Erasmus, "This Thing Called Love"
English major, sophomore (Cary, NC)

The American Academy of Poets
Prize (for graduate students)
Noel Crook, "Job" (Raleigh, NC)

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2007 WINNERS

as picked by
by Guest Judge
DORIANNE LAUX:

Winner of the
2007 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
Noel Crook, "The Slaves" (Raleigh, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Michael Gaspeny, "Shore Drive" (Greensboro, NC)
Randy Ogle, "Millbrook, NY" (Morrisville, NC)
Pamela St. Clair, "Bird Song" (Wilmington, NC)
Mark Sells, "Fear Poem" (Salisbury, NC)

Fellow Finalists

Don Ball, "Easter Egg" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Michael Colonnese, "The Classic Vault" (Fayetteville, NC)
Melody Garren, "Vanity of a Third-Grader" (Rutherfordton, NC)
Valentina Gnup, "At Edward Hopper's Self-Portrait"
(Greensboro, NC)
Lauren Gould, "Via Larga, 39" (Raleigh, NC)
Sarah Hamm, "Little Girl Hiding Poem" (Salisbury, NC)
Michael Mayo, "The best part about digging holes for a living is
you can't take your work home with you" (Raleigh, NC)
Emily Meineke, "Outside the Baptist Church" (Chapel HIll, NC)
Calvin Nordt, "Physics" (Apex, NC)
Hannah Louise Poston, "That Roman Holiday" (Carrboro, NC)
Allison Seay, "The Absence" (Greensboro, NC)
Anthony Snider, "A Quiet Afternoon" (Wilmington, NC)
Travis Smith, "Comfort, 4th of July" (Chapel HIll, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart
Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Lauren Upton, "Water, Water Everywhere" (Raleigh, NC)

American Academy of Poetry Prize
selected by Maxine Kumin
(for graduate students):
Kelly Michels, "Static in the Dark"

Honorable Mentions:
Noel Crook, "The Owl" and Eloise GIlster "Crows"

2006 WINNERS
as picked
by Guest Judge
N.C. Poet Laureate
KATHRYN
STRIPLING
BYER:

2006 Judge KATHRYN BYER, near her home in Cullowhee

Winner of the
Brenda Smart Poetry Prize:
Heather Marcinowski, "The Charming" (Durham, NC)

Honorable Mentions
Amy Knox Brown, "Old Wives Tales" (Winston-Salem, NC)
Sam Cross, "Cabin Fever" (Raleigh, NC)
Ed Devany, "Don't Go Outside the Fence" (Chapel HIll, NC)
C. Doyle, "Carnival" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Joy Beshears Hagy, "Rapture" (Lexington, NC)
Jaime Laughter, "Gray's Lily" (Fuquay Varina, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Don Ball, "Alachua County 1988" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Ryland Bowman, "What I'll Need When I Go" (Greensboro, NC)
Cesar Castro, "Fifth Grade Torture Manual" (Carrboro, NC)
Jack Christian, "Boy On A String" (Raleigh, NC)
Sara Claytor, "Gangsters, Blondes, & P.I.'s" (Elk Park, NC)
Hilary Collins, "Swannanoa, N.C." (Swannanoa, NC)
Mary Hennessy, "In An Escher Print" (Raleigh, NC)
Mandy Monath, "Geese" (Salisbury, NC)
Brian Ownbey, "Indiana" (Raleigh, NC)
Daniel Parsons, "Rook-worm" (Raleigh, NC)
Ariel Rudolph, "Don't Look" (Boone, NC)
Elizabeth Stagg, "The Certainty of Husbands" (Durham, NC)
Cedric Tillman, "Branding" (Charlotte, NC)
Dianne Timblin, "From the Kitchen of Georgia M., July '31"
(Durham, NC)
Lauren Upton "Equus Callabus" (Raleigh, NC)
Joan Weiner "A Hard Man to Love" (Asheville, NC)
Marian Westbrook "Interlude" (Goldsboro, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart
Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Michael Mayo, "Blowing Off Death" (Raleigh, NC)

American Academy of Poetry Prize
(for graduate students):
Winner:

2005 WINNERS as picked
by Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK:

Winner of the
Brenda Smart Poetry Prize
Irene Harvley-Felder, "In Celebration of Death"
(Burlington, NC)
Honorable Mentions
Michael Colonnese, "Scabs" (Fayetteville, NC)
Timur Hammond,
"How to Harvest the Last of the Basil" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Nora Shepard, "Out of the Ordinary" (Raleigh, NC)
Anna Franklin Smith, "Widow" (Raleigh, NC)

Fellow Finalists
Jeremy Aufrance,
"A Sketch of Life Without You" (Greensboro, NC)
Evan Benz, "how else can a mirror blush?" (Raleigh, NC)
A.J. Collins, "Generation" (Falkland, NC)
Madge Duffey, "Leaving" (Raleigh, NC)
Rebecca Germain, "Talin" (Morrisville, NC)
Eloise Gilster, "Fruit" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Alex Grant, "How the Cuckoo Sings" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Kristen Gravitte, "Lazarus" (Raleigh, NC)
Mark Hennessy, "Maximum Possible Error" (Raleigh, NC)
Charles Jester, "Open Air" (Durham, NC)
J.D. McGee, "Observations at Merritt Island" (Raleigh, NC)
Jessica Polka, "Autohagiography of
Lidwina of Schiedam (died 1433)" (Chapel Hill, NC)
Rebecca Robbins, "Swimming Pool, 1964" (Raleigh, NC) Jessica Sampley, "Tuscaloosa to Tupelo" (Raleigh, NC)
Marian Westbrook, "Preservation" (Goldsboro, NC)

The Brenda L. Smart
Undergraduate Poetry Prize
Millie Breedlove, "Eve" (Raleigh, NC)




				2009 NCSU Poetry Contest Guest Judge ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Well, the results are in, thanks to some heavy judicial lifting by our Guest Judge Ellen Bryant Voigt. We have, it seems, a tie--the first year that's happened, but we agree with Ellen. It was too tough a call to decide between Rachel and Rebecca. And congratulations to NCSU English senior Robert Greene whose poem got into the finals, thereby making him the natural winner of the Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Award which goes to the highest esteemed poem from an NC State undergraduate. If you sent a poem in, we thank you for participating and hope you'll give it another shot next year. And please join us, Tuesday evening, April 7th at 7:30 p.m. in the Caldwell Hall Lounge, for a presentation of the winners AND a sure-to-be-entertaining poetry reading from two-time National Book Award nominee Ellen Bryant Voigt. Here are the results... (Tie) Winners of the 2009 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize: Rachel Richardson, "One Summer" (Greensboro, NC) Rebecca Warren, "In the Neighborhood of Fire" (Greensboro, NC) Honorable Mentions Hannah Bonner, "What We Hope For" (Chapel Hill, NC) Sarah Cox, "An Invocation, Revised" (Greensboro, NC) Megan Roberts, "My Father's Side" (Raleigh, NC) Fellow Finalists Sarah Archer, "Life-long iron lung user dies during power failure" (Chapel Hill, NC) Donald Ball, "All This" (Chapel Hill, NC) Michael Colonnese, "Dead Spike Buck on the Blue Ridge Parkway" (Fayetteville, NC) Alexandra Distler, "Debt" (Raleigh, NC) Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy" (Raleigh, NC) Elizabeth Jackson, "Hanging On" (Raleigh, NC) Jeff Miles, "The Quiet Country" (Greensboro, NC) Robert McCall, "Bodies Out of Motion" (Saluda, NC) Matt Poindexter, "Learning to Whistle" (Carrboro, NC) Mark Spring, "His First Time" (Raleigh, NC) Shannon Ward, "The Butcher" (Raleigh, NC) The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize Robert Greene, "forget Freud, read Mina Loy" English major, senior (Raleigh, NC) The American Academy of Poets Prize (for graduate students) Celeste Doaks (Raleigh, NC) 2008 WINNERS as picked by Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK Winner of the 2008 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize: C.G. Thompson, "Post Card to Ravinna " (Greenville, NC) Honorable Mentions Don Ball, "After the Dead " (Chapel Hill, NC) William Blackley , "For God's Sake " (Elkin, NC) Juliana Daugherty, "Ephphatha" (Chapel Hill, NC) Brian Ownbey, "Sanctuary" (Raleigh, NC) Fellow Finalists Jane Andrews, "The Cowboy Way" (Raleigh, NC) Mark Jay Brewin, "Todo Que Saben Es Trabajo" (Elon, NC) Sarah Bull, "The Library Janitor" (Durham, NC) Jessie Carty, "Best Friends " (Charlotte, NC) Sarah Cox, "The Cartography of Winter " (Burlington, NC) Eloise Gilster, "Market Watch" (Raleigh, NC) Sean Honea, "Melatonin Blues " (Chapel Hill, NC) Elizabeth Jackson, "Memorial Hospital, Chapel HIll, NC" (Raleigh, NC) Ariel Rudolph, "Writing in Dust" (Chapel Hill, NC) Sarah Servie, "City Lights " (Raleigh, NC) Jennifer Smyre, "Coffee Shop" (Chapel Hill, NC) Robert Wells, "Separation" (Chapel Hill, NC) The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize Jeannine Erasmus, "This Thing Called Love" English major, sophomore (Cary, NC) The American Academy of Poets Prize (for graduate students) Noel Crook, "Job" (Raleigh, NC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2007 WINNERS as picked by by Guest Judge DORIANNE LAUX: Winner of the 2007 Brenda Smart Poetry Prize: Noel Crook, "The Slaves" (Raleigh, NC) Honorable Mentions Michael Gaspeny, "Shore Drive" (Greensboro, NC) Randy Ogle, "Millbrook, NY" (Morrisville, NC) Pamela St. Clair, "Bird Song" (Wilmington, NC) Mark Sells, "Fear Poem" (Salisbury, NC) Fellow Finalists Don Ball, "Easter Egg" (Chapel Hill, NC) Michael Colonnese, "The Classic Vault" (Fayetteville, NC) Melody Garren, "Vanity of a Third-Grader" (Rutherfordton, NC) Valentina Gnup, "At Edward Hopper's Self-Portrait" (Greensboro, NC) Lauren Gould, "Via Larga, 39" (Raleigh, NC) Sarah Hamm, "Little Girl Hiding Poem" (Salisbury, NC) Michael Mayo, "The best part about digging holes for a living is you can't take your work home with you" (Raleigh, NC) Emily Meineke, "Outside the Baptist Church" (Chapel HIll, NC) Calvin Nordt, "Physics" (Apex, NC) Hannah Louise Poston, "That Roman Holiday" (Carrboro, NC) Allison Seay, "The Absence" (Greensboro, NC) Anthony Snider, "A Quiet Afternoon" (Wilmington, NC) Travis Smith, "Comfort, 4th of July" (Chapel HIll, NC) The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize Lauren Upton, "Water, Water Everywhere" (Raleigh, NC) American Academy of Poetry Prize selected by Maxine Kumin (for graduate students): Kelly Michels, "Static in the Dark" Honorable Mentions: Noel Crook, "The Owl" and Eloise GIlster "Crows" 2006 WINNERS as picked by Guest Judge N.C. Poet Laureate KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER: 2006 Judge KATHRYN BYER, near her home in Cullowhee Winner of the Brenda Smart Poetry Prize: Heather Marcinowski, "The Charming" (Durham, NC) Honorable Mentions Amy Knox Brown, "Old Wives Tales" (Winston-Salem, NC) Sam Cross, "Cabin Fever" (Raleigh, NC) Ed Devany, "Don't Go Outside the Fence" (Chapel HIll, NC) C. Doyle, "Carnival" (Chapel Hill, NC) Joy Beshears Hagy, "Rapture" (Lexington, NC) Jaime Laughter, "Gray's Lily" (Fuquay Varina, NC) Fellow Finalists Don Ball, "Alachua County 1988" (Chapel Hill, NC) Ryland Bowman, "What I'll Need When I Go" (Greensboro, NC) Cesar Castro, "Fifth Grade Torture Manual" (Carrboro, NC) Jack Christian, "Boy On A String" (Raleigh, NC) Sara Claytor, "Gangsters, Blondes, & P.I.'s" (Elk Park, NC) Hilary Collins, "Swannanoa, N.C." (Swannanoa, NC) Mary Hennessy, "In An Escher Print" (Raleigh, NC) Mandy Monath, "Geese" (Salisbury, NC) Brian Ownbey, "Indiana" (Raleigh, NC) Daniel Parsons, "Rook-worm" (Raleigh, NC) Ariel Rudolph, "Don't Look" (Boone, NC) Elizabeth Stagg, "The Certainty of Husbands" (Durham, NC) Cedric Tillman, "Branding" (Charlotte, NC) Dianne Timblin, "From the Kitchen of Georgia M., July '31" (Durham, NC) Lauren Upton "Equus Callabus" (Raleigh, NC) Joan Weiner "A Hard Man to Love" (Asheville, NC) Marian Westbrook "Interlude" (Goldsboro, NC) The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize Michael Mayo, "Blowing Off Death" (Raleigh, NC) American Academy of Poetry Prize (for graduate students): Winner: 2005 WINNERS as picked by Guest Judge PETER MAKUCK: Winner of the Brenda Smart Poetry Prize Irene Harvley-Felder, "In Celebration of Death" (Burlington, NC) Honorable Mentions Michael Colonnese, "Scabs" (Fayetteville, NC) Timur Hammond, "How to Harvest the Last of the Basil" (Chapel Hill, NC) Nora Shepard, "Out of the Ordinary" (Raleigh, NC) Anna Franklin Smith, "Widow" (Raleigh, NC) Fellow Finalists Jeremy Aufrance, "A Sketch of Life Without You" (Greensboro, NC) Evan Benz, "how else can a mirror blush?" (Raleigh, NC) A.J. Collins, "Generation" (Falkland, NC) Madge Duffey, "Leaving" (Raleigh, NC) Rebecca Germain, "Talin" (Morrisville, NC) Eloise Gilster, "Fruit" (Chapel Hill, NC) Alex Grant, "How the Cuckoo Sings" (Chapel Hill, NC) Kristen Gravitte, "Lazarus" (Raleigh, NC) Mark Hennessy, "Maximum Possible Error" (Raleigh, NC) Charles Jester, "Open Air" (Durham, NC) J.D. McGee, "Observations at Merritt Island" (Raleigh, NC) Jessica Polka, "Autohagiography of Lidwina of Schiedam (died 1433)" (Chapel Hill, NC) Rebecca Robbins, "Swimming Pool, 1964" (Raleigh, NC) Jessica Sampley, "Tuscaloosa to Tupelo" (Raleigh, NC) Marian Westbrook, "Preservation" (Goldsboro, NC) The Brenda L. Smart Undergraduate Poetry Prize Millie Breedlove, "Eve" (Raleigh, NC)