| PST JANUARY CONTEST WINNERS |
Sarah's January contest: Theme: Bells Tolling
1st Place Benjamin A. Dugger - "Sexton's Dutry, AME Church, Macon Georgia" 2nd Place - Caroline Sposto - "Sanctuary" 3rd Place - Russell Strauss - "Tolling the End of the World, 1906" 1st HM - Ann Carolyn Cates - "Mission Bells"
JoAn's Arthur Lessac contest:
1. Resonance - Caroline Sposto
2. Dancing a Song for Mr. Lessac - Lynnie Mirvis
3. The Muse Matters - Tom McDaniel
Honorable Mention: Channels of Ecstasy - Saundra Kelley
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| PST DECEMBER CONTEST WINNERS |
December Contest - "Winter" Sponsored by Leslie Blakeburn
First Place - Winter Song 1 - Lynnie Mirvis
Second Place - ECHOS FROM A WINTER MOON - Frances Cowden
Third Place - Change of Season - Caroline Sposto
1st HM - Degrees - Sandra O. Hancock 2nd HM - Miracle on Ice - Elizabeth Howard 3rd HM - Yesterday's Winter Holiday - Cecil R. Dickerson
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| PST NOVEMBER CONTEST WINNERS |
November Contest: "Twixt' Twelve and Twenty" or Rhyming Humor
1st Place: Russell H. Strauss: "No Thanks, Bobby Beene"
2nd Place: Tie: D. Beecher Smith, II: "Wheels"
Lynnie Mirvis: "When I was Twixt twelve and Twenty"
3rd Place: Charles K. Firmage: "Wise to the World"
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| Results in from Nationals |
The 2011 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Annual Convention took place in Dearborn, Michigan June 16 - 20thPST Members made a wonderful showing at nationals. Congratulations to the winners.
National contest results are below in the order of their first award, which would be their lowest contest number win since contests are announced from the bottom up. The number in parenthesis is the contest number:
- Janice Freytag 1st (47) 1st (30) 2nd (24) 1HM (8)
- Russell H. Strauss 6HM (43) 3HM (36) 3rd (32) 7HM (10) 2HM (6) 2nd (5)
- Sarah Gurley 4HM (41)
- Frances Cowden 3rd (36)
- Jeanine Mah 2nd (35)
- Kitty Yeager 1st (31) 1st (27) 3rd(18) 4HM (5) 5HM (4)
- Janice Hornburg 5HM (13)
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| Pat Oplinger's Book to Debut |
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| Pat Oplinger |
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| PST Member Pat Oplinger is holding a debut signing and reading excerpts from her Scattered Rainbows audio book. She will be reading Volume II of The Circle of Life Trilogy.
June 25, 2011 from 1 to 3 P.M.
WORDS Bookstore and Afterwards Cafe
201 N. Spring St. in Hardy, AR.
Pre-orders available at 870-257-5558 and 870-856-5579.
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