2022 Pinesong Award Winners

Such exciting news. I’m thrilled that a poem of mine, “Litchfield Beach,” won First Place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2022 Pinesong Awards (the Thomas H. McDill Award). I can’t wait to read the anthology when it is published!

PINESONG AWARDS

It is my extreme pleasure to announce the winners of the 2022 Pinesong Awards

Poet Laureate Award

Preliminary Judge: Anne McMaster
Final Judge: Joseph Bathanti

First Place: Two Variations on a Theme of a Tenement (as Viewed from the Window of a Moving Train With a Song Interposed) by Maria Rouphail

Finalists:

A praise poem, without the praise by Mary Hennessy
IF WAKING RECAPITULATES THE EXPULSION FROM EDEN by Celisa Steele
Injections by Kat Bodrie
making order of things by Lucinda Trew
Perseids by Kelly Jones
Nightsong by Joyce Compton Brown
Summer at the Boy’s Camp by Carlin Corsino
Take Jesus, for Example by S. L. Cockerille
Teaching the Blind Girl by Maureen Sherbondy

Alice Osborn Award

Judge: Kristina Erny

First Place: The Frog Prince by JeanMarie Olivieri

Second Place: Pioneer by Bradley Samore

Honorable Mentions:
Hard to Get by Maura Hight
Nearly Winter by Gary Phillips
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