WOMR Announces Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest Winners & Reading Event
JOE GOUVEIA
Poetry contest raising funds for Cape Cod’s only community access radio station drew submissions from all over the North America.
Provincetown, MA, January 30, 2017:
WOMR announced the winners of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest today, where poets submitted five pages of their best unpublished poetry, any style, any length, and any subject matter. A $1,000 National Prize was awarded to the best poem, $300 Regional Prize to best poem by a Cape Cod-based poet. A $15 entry fee was used as prize money and to support WOMR’s operating expenses.
“Many of the national submissions were a lot better this year,??? said contest judge Marge Piercy. ???I had trouble eliminating what I thought were some really good poems.???
More than 600 pages of poetry submissions were received from Cape Cod and all over North America. The list of winners, runners-up and honorable mentions includes:
REGIONAL JOE GOUVEIA POETRY CONTEST RESULTS
1st??place:??Listening to Public Radio While Boiling Potatoes??by Adeline Carrie Koscher (Brewster)
2nd??place:??Animal Nights??by Diane Woods Ashley (Eastham)
3rd??place:??Tasting the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil at the Stop and Shop??by Lucile Burt (South Wellfleet)
REGIONAL HONORABLE MENTIONS
Romancing a Pacemaker??by J. Lorraine Brown (Mashpee),??Hunting Mushrooms with Mina??by Ed Meek (Wellfleet),??If My Mind Should Go Before I Can Tell You??by Michael Shapiro (Brewster),??Early Education, Chattanooga Tennessee, 1953??by Wilderness Sarchild (Brewster),??A Walk in the Woods??by Lucile Burt (South Wellfleet),??Gravity Killed Sister E??by Jo Brisbane (East Dennis),??Visiting Auschwitz??by Wilderness Sarchild (Brewster) and??First Real Job??by??Michael Shapiro (Brewster).
NATIONAL JOE GOUVEIA POETRY CONTEST RESULTS
1st??place:??In This Room Everyone Behaved??by Jeanine Stevens (Sacramento, CA)
2nd??place:??Ballad of the Witch??by Clif Mason (Omaha, NE)
3rd??place:??Happy??by Ester K. Willison (Schenectady, NY)??
NATIONAL HONORABLE MENTIONS
To Desire a Photograph??by Janet Zandy (Rochester, NY),??Just Past Sunset, the Red Fox??by Diane Woodcock (Midlothian, VA),??The Shape of Shadow??by Anne Barney (Great Cacapon, WV),??Little Steps: Workshop Week 10??by Kathryn Petruccelli (Florence, MA),??Lady of Space??by Gloria Murray (Deer Park, NY),??Leaving the Anne Frank House??by James Mckee (Astoria, NY) and??Elegy??by Luke Cumberland (Woodbridge, VA).??
MARGE PIERCY
The regional winners and honorable mentions have been invited to read their poem at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on March 23rd??where they will share the stage with contest judge Marge Piercy. National poetry panelist and novelist and poet Jeannette de Beauvoir will host the event.
WOMR???s Executive Director John Braden said, ???We were very excited to see an increase in participation this year. We would like to thank everyone for submitting their work and of course to contest judge Marge Piercy. Thanks also Chris Boles and Jeannette de Beauvoir for their??assistance.???
About WOMR/WFMR:??WOMR is a noncommercial, nonprofit educational community radio station offering an eclectic blend of music and spoken-word programming since 1982 and broadcasting from Provincetown, Massachusetts???making it ???outermost radio.??? WOMR is not affiliated with any educational institution and derives its financial support from listeners, businesses and funding organizations. More information at??www.womr.org.