Poetry Contest, Past Winners
2021
Grand Prize Winner
The Door
Susanna Cupido
“Go shut the door,” he told me, and I stopped
a second, wondering exactly what
he meant, if I’d been wrong to leave it propped
open, if drafts were getting in, if “shut”
Finalists
Feux Rouges
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
At the carrefours, signs and avenues
Usher us to divergent destinations.
We trace thoughts through clouds,
Neuronal bridges tethering
Roads. Branching out deltas
Unfoundland
Diane Pacitti
When they were old men
they couldn’t recall if they had strode that mystery,
or if another sailor had bragged of walking
on the broad backs of cod
weak cloth
Renée M. Sgroi
we are made of weak cloth
and barely woven fabric
sewed, having chosen
a design because of texture,
jute or silk