Poetry Gallery

First Prize: $1000
Anna Smalley
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

The Crossroads

Second Prize: $500
Karen Winterburn
Glenview, Illinois
Karen also won $200 for Best Rhyming Poem (below)

Call Out of Exile

Third Prize: $150
Jendi Reiter
Northampton, Massachusetts

Called Out

Honorable Mention: $100
Brian K. Olson
Star, Idaho

Repentance

Honorable Mention: $100
Judith Frost
Verdun, Quebec

Oh, Poet, where do you live?

Honorable Mention: $100
Lochlanina Tobey
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Starting Sunday Morning

Honorable Mention: $100
Katherine Jeffrey
Waco, Texas

Eva / Ave

Honorable Mention: $100
Alex Porter
Stirling, Scotland

The Trade

Honorable Mention: $100
Leah Stewart
Rochester, New York

We'll each leave behind twelve basketfuls

Honorable Mention: $100
Temple Cone
Annapolis, Maryland

The Prodigal

Honorable Mention: $100
Jenna C. Pashley
Spencer, Indiana

Portrait of a Kansas farmwife

Honorable Mention: $100
Ellen Gray
Pleasanton, California

Yahweh

Honorable Mention: $100
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
London, Ontario

You Who Read This, I Remember You

Merit Award: $50
Bethany Carlson
Jonesboro, Indiana

The Lord's Prayer

Merit Award: $50
Christina Beasley
Vienna, Virginia

On miracles

Merit Award: $50
Andrew Kooman
Red Deer, Alberta

wring the blood from my veins

Merit Award: $50
Marianne Jones
Thunder Bay, Ontario

power outtage

Merit Award: $50
Violet Nesdoly
Langley, British Columbia

Merit Award: $50
Susan Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Phases

Merit Award: $50
Ned Condini
Etowah, North Carolina

The Knight of Celano

Merit Award: $50
Daryl Wocknitz
Champion, Alberta

(dark house)

Merit Award: $50
Sarah Burgoyne
Langley, British Columbia

Peter's Dream

Merit Award: $50
Darlene Moore Berg
Doe Run, Missouri

It's Not the Bread, Man

Merit Award: $50
Mark Amorose
Mesa, Arizona
Mark also won $100 for Honorable Mention: Rhyming Poem (below)

Saguaros on the way to San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert

Merit Award: $50
Mary McDonald
Aurora, Ontario

Dark Night

Merit Award: $50
Johannah Banham
Ferndale, Washington

Holding On

Merit Award: $50
Jennie Bryant
Springvale, Maine
Jennie also won $50 for Merit Award: Rhyming Poem (below)

Untitled, begun May 8, 2001

Merit Award: $50
Sabrina L'Heureux
Dawson Creek, British Columbia

What Poppa left me

Merit Award: $50
Dick Hayes
Liverpool, England

Requiem for a Retiring Soul,

Merit Award: $50
Christy Frost
Verdun, Quebec

Embalmed

Merit Award: $50
Lauraine Saretsky
Edmonton, Alberta

The Dark Night

Merit Award: $50
Peggy Fletcher
Sarnia, Ontario

Saved

Merit Award: $50
Lorraine Buck
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Outside Sunset Nursing Home

Best Rhyming Poem: $200
Karen Winterburn
Glenview, Illinois

Honorable Mention for Rhyming Poem: $100
Mark Amorose
Mesa, Arizona

Merit Award for Rhyming Poetry: $50
Jennie Bryant
Springvale, Maine

First Prize: $500
Leah Stewart
Rochester, New York

I have more of his paintings than Rockwell's

Second Prize: $300
Sabrina L'Heureux
Dawson Creek, British Columbia

What I'm left with

Third Prize: $100
Matt Rust
Stoughton, Wisconsin

Peach Preserves

Honorable Mention: $50
Ned Condini
Etowa, North Carolina

Hamlet in Ridge Park

Honorable Mention: $50
Alethea Black
Holmes, New York

Car Ride, 1979

Honorable Mention: $50
Hetty White
Covington, Georgia

Tree Jazz

Honorable Mention: $50
Leslie J. Cook
Welland, South Australia

The Jesus Bird

Honorable Mention: $50
Kristina Lim
Fort Collins, Colorado

Boys in the balcony

Honorable Mention: $50
Amanda McQuade
Burbank, California

Jonah and I

Honorable Mention: $50
Cindy Jackson
Rocklin, California

Ruined

Honorable Mention: $50
Ric Booth
Gambrills, Maryland

the rich young american

Honorable Mention: $50
Erick S. Brown
Springfield, Oregon

Eucharist in a Mid-October Night

Honorable Mention: $50
Megan Elaine Davis
Clinton, Maine

The Closing

Honorable Mention: $50
Karen Winterburn
Glenview, Illinois

Encounter

Honorable Mention: $50
Matthew David Mitchell
Suffolk, Virginia

Wretched From the Get-Go

Honorable Mention: $50
Joe Miller
Wilmington, North Carolina

Intimacy with Heaven

Honorable Mention: $50
Margaret Klaassen
Brisbane, Australia

God's Love Heals

Honorable Mention: $50
Louise Marie Croese
Yeppoon, Australia

I, the Story

Best Rhyming Poem: $250.00
Alethea Black
Holmes, New York

Best Traditional Rhyming Poem
Traditional Rhyming Poem: $100
Ellyn Eddy
Eaton Rapids, Michigan

Perspectives on the Kingdom

First Prize: $1050
Jan Wood
Big River, Saskatchewan
Includes $50 Founder's Prize

just as you are in me and i am in you

Second Prize: $700
Jendi Reiter
Northampton, Massachusetts
Includes $200 first prize for best rhyming poem

World's Fattest Cat Has World's Fattest Kittens

Third Prize: $150
Tina Blevins
Charlottesville, Virginia

Fear and Trembling

Honorable Mention: $200
Daniel A. Kemper
Alameda, California
Includes $100 second prize for a rhyming poem

Through the windshield, the road

Honorable Mention: $150
Judith Frost
Verdun, Quebec
Includes $150 Founder's Prize

Twisting the Question

Honorable Mention: $100
Susanna Childress
Holland, Michigan

After Andrei Rublev's The Savior of Zvenigorod, 15th C.

Honorable Mention: $100
Alexa V. Behmer
Longmont, Colorado

God's Hand

Honorable Mention: $100
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
London, Ontario

The Day After Ash Wednesday

Honorable Mention: $150
Glenn B. Atkinson
Princeton Junction, New Jersey
Includes $50 third prize for a rhyming poem

Apologies to Christopher Smart and Jeoffrey

Honorable Mention: $100
Nalani Garward
Melbourne, Australia

for Donelle (poem for my sister)

Merit Award : $100
Lochlanina Tobey
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

June, With Her Eyes Closed

Honorable Mention: $100
Andrew Kooman
Red Deer, Alberta

Together We Examine My Heart, Seven Years Later

Honorable Mention: $100
Bobbi Dykema Katsanis
Berkeley, California

becoming

Honorable Mention: $50
Ellen Gray
Pleasanton, California

The Cloak

Honorable Mention: $50
Susan Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Coffee Stop

Merit Award: $50
Violet Nesdoly
Surrey, British Columbia

Converting to Childhood

Merit Award: $50
Sharon R. Haynes
Chardon, Ohio

Imagine—Glory!

Merit Award: $50
Angela Erickson
Salida, California

Merit Award: $50
Dick Hayes
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Midnight Raiders

Merit Award: $50
Carol Owens
Chino, California

On the Death of a Daughter

Merit Award: $50
Christy Frost
Verdun, Quebec

Life-cycle

Merit Award: $50
Robert W. Cely
Columbia, South Carolina

Vespers

Merit Award: $50
David Brennan
Victoria, British Columbia

A Trek Through the Hills

Merit Award: $50
P. D. Gray
Penge, United Kingdom

rest au rant

Merit Award: $50
Jenny Lee
Wellesley, Massachusetts

Return

Merit Award: $50
Duane W Udd
Anacortes, Washington

Rhapsody in Black and Blue

Merit Award: $50
Martha Eitzen
Highlands Ranch, Colorado

I Walked in the Garden of God

Merit Award: $50
Lawrence Jones III
Hideaway, Texas

Soften Your Way

Merit Award: $50
Carol MacKay
Bawlf, Alberta

Commodities

Merit Award: $50
Maura K Robinson
Loveland, Colorado

Pilate

Merit Award: $50
Gail Gernat
Matheson, Ontario

The Shape of Things

Merit Award: $50
Lesley Ayers
Manawatu, New Zealand

Café Emmaus

Merit Award: $50
Anita Runions
Grande Prairie, Alberta

The Cloak

Free Merchandise

These entrants were chosen randomly to receive a free Christian music CD produced by Grandview Records.

First Prize: $1100
Jennifer Zolper
Modesto, California

A Letter to the Girl I Was

Second Prize: $750
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
London, Ontario

Judas Tree

Third Prize: $150
Lochnanina Tobey
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

To Mary Magdalen with Thanks

Honorable Mention: $50
Rochelle Chapman
Vancouver, British Columbia

Stained Glass

Honorable Mention: $50
Diane Tucker
Burnaby, British Columbia

Yet the World Knew Him Not

Honorable Mention: $50
Susan Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Nothing More

Honorable Mention: $50
Ned Condini
Etowah, South Carolina

Saint Vincent Ferrer, New York

Honorable Mention: $50
Jan Wood
Big River, Saskatchewan

…and Jesus was baptized

Honorable Mention: $50
Judith Frost
Verdun, Quebec

Solstice Solace

Honorable Mention: $50
Ellen Gray
Pleasanton, California

A Garden Story

Honorable Mention: $50
Bobbi Dykema Katsanis
Berkeley, California

January 17, 1991

Honorable Mention: $50
F.G. Capitanio
East Falmouth, Massachusetts

Divine Voyeur

Honorable Mention: $50
Gail J. Dickie
Toronto, Ontario

Thank You R. Carlos Nakai

Merit Award: $50
Jim Cox
Colton, California

Mute

Merit Award: $50
Violet Nesdoly
Surrey. British Columbia

Wisdom of the Scarecrow

Merit Award: $30
Cheryl Lang
Raleigh, North Carolina

Really

Merit Award: $30
Geoff Pope
Renton, Washington

Merit Award: $30
Darlene Moore Berg
Farmington, Missouri

Walk as He Did

Merit Award: $30
James Beard
Follett, Texas

So Sweet this Pain of Silent Stigmata

Merit Award: $30
Diane Dachyshyn
Edmonton, Alberta

Enough Already

Merit Award: $30
Sharon Talbot
San Francisco, California

Advent 2000

Merit Award: $30
Margaret Fletcher
Sarnia, Ontario

Easter Parade

Merit Award: $30
H. Maxwell Butcher
Prince George, British Columbia

On Reading Stephen Hawking

Merit Award: $30
Curt Mortimer
Chicago, Illinois

The River of God

Merit Award: $30
Angela Erickson
Modesto, California

One of Those Children

Merit Award: $30
Borden Baxter
Cochrane, Alberta

Mt. Desolate

Merit Award: $30
Annette Dekker
Kitchener, Ontario

essence of mary

Merit Award: $30
Linda Neff
Guelph, Ontario

Summer Sonnet

Merit Award: $30
Jennifer McCauley
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Castigation and Consequence

Merit Award: $30
Cathi-Lyn Dyck
Kenton, Manitoba

Will He Find Faith in the Earth?

First Prize: $1100
Susanna Childress
Tallahassee, Florida

We Take the Sky

Second Prize: $350
Rochelle Chapman
Vancouver, British Columbia

The Sacré-Cœur

Honorable Mention: $150
Vicki Goodfellow Duke
Calgary, Alberta

To Mary Magdalen with Thanks

Honorable Mention: $50
Mary Lou Cornish
Fergus, Ontario

Fierce Mercy

Honorable Mention: $50
Ellen Gray
Pleasanton, California

A Country of No Brides

Honorable Mention: $150
Ned Condini
Etowah, North Carolina

Bivouac

Honorable Mention: $50
Leanne Panjer
Canmore, Alberta

Measuring Beethoven

Honorable Mention: $50
Elaine Gingrich
Parry Sound, Ontario

Life Thirst: L'Chaim

Honorable Mention: $150
Lochlanina Tobey
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Pilgrim of Wisdom

Honorable Mention: $50
Susan Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Two Years After

Honorable Mention: $50
Violet Nesdoly
Surrey, British Columbia

Transformation

Honorable Mention: $50
Bonnie Flaman
Regina, Saskatchewan

when considering tombs

Honorable Mention: $50
Linda Siebenga
Blackfalds, Alberta

The Comfort

Merit Award: $125
Brenda Tate
South Ohio, Nova Scotia

White-Throated Sparrow

Merit Award: $125
Ricky Alcantar
El Paso, Texas

America

Merit Award: $25
Mary Rudbeck Stanko
London, Ontario

The One and Only Word

Merit Award: $25
Judith Frost
Verdun, Quebec

Merit Award: $25
J. L. Bond
Steinbech, Manitoba

blue and white

Merit Award: $25
Andrew Kooman
Red Deer, Alberta

Three Snapshots of the Trinity Upon Christ's Death on the Cross

Merit Award: $25
Angela Erickson
Modesto, California

David's Lament

Merit Award: $25
Adam Tavel
Toledo, Ohio

Gethsemane

Merit Award: $25
Cathi-Lyn Dyck
Kenton, Manitoba

The Right to Remain Silent

Merit Award: $25
Craig Kenworthy
Bozeman, Montana

Warm Things Come in Threes

Merit Award: $25
Donna L. Watkins
Taylors, South Carolina

Poetic Justice

Merit Award: $25
Sheri Henderson
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Up at Dawn

First Prize: $600
Jan Wood
Big River, Saskatchewan

In a Civilized Society an Adulteress Isn't Stoned

Second Prize: $150
James Beard
Follett, Texas

Dead Word Walking

Third Prize: $150
Andrew Kooman
Red Deer, Alberta

God

Honorable Mention: $150
Jendi Reiter
Northampton, Massachusetts

Lipstick Sestina

Honorable Mention: $50
Pam Gilman
Mount Wilson, California

The Evils of Junk

Honorable Mention: $100
Rochelle Chapman
Vancouver, British Columbia

Her Assembly

Honorable Mention: $50
Linda Seibenga
Blackfalds, Alberta

Petulant

Honorable Mention: $50
John A. Vanek MD
Red Deer, Alberta

Monsters and Ghosts

Honorable Mention: $50
Marguerite Norlander
Cochrane, Alberta

japanese gardener

Honorable Mention: $15
Lenane Panjeer
Canmore, Alberta

Metamorphosis

Honorable Mention: $15
Susan Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Tempest

Honorable Mention: $15
Ellen Gray
Pleasanton, California

John the Baptist

Honorable Mention: $15
Mary Lou Cornish
London, Ontario

I Chased My Healing

Honorable Mention: $15
Gordon C. McRae
Edmonton, Alberta

The Stone

Honorable Mention: $15
Marcia Lee Laycock
Ponoka, Alberta

Jacob

Honorable Mention: $15
Violet Nesdoly
Surrey, British Columbia

Baptism

Honorable Mention: $15
Frank Eannarino
Berwyn, Illinois

Honorable Mention: $15
Jennifer Zolper
Modesto, California

Dry Faith

Honorable Mention: $15
Delia Corrigan
Columbia, South Carolina

Let's Talk About

Founder's Prize: $100
Bonnie Flaman
Regina, Saskatchewan

all day long i've been holding this picture

First Prize: $350
Lynn Tait
Sarnia, Ontario

Though Unworthy

Second Prize: $150
Jendi Reiter
New York, New York

Cliché

Honorable Mention: $50
Debbie Sawczak
Georgetown, Ontario

Shoemaker's Elf at the Wheel

Honorable Mention: $25
Jan Wood
Big River, Saskatchewan

From Milk to Meat With Trepidation

Honorable Mention: $25
Charles Van Gorkom
Smithers, British Columbia

This Evening

Honorable Mention: $25
Jody Veenker
Bishop, California

What We Want With Every Age

Honorable Mention: $25
Peggy Eastman
Chevy Chase, Maryland

Three Gifts

Honorable Mention: $25
Andrew Kooman
Red Deer, Alberta

Say It To The Dying

Honorable Mention: $25
Susan Carpenter Sims
Las Vegas, New Mexico

The Sexton

Honorable Mention: $25
Vicki Goodfellow Duke
Calgary, Alberta

For Leona

Honorable Mention: $25
Mary Lou Cornish
London, Ontario

If This World Hung From Some Other God's Arm

Honorable Mention: $25Geoffrey Henderson
Brockville, Ontario

Seth at Three Months

Honorable Mention: $20
Linda Hamel
Guelph, Ontario

The Discipline of Silence

Honorable Mention: $20
E. J. Clarkson
Victoria, British Columbia

First Prize: $250
Fenna Schaapman
Calgary, Alberta

Rachel's Stone

Second Prize: $100
Vivian Hansen
Calgary, Alberta

Honey From the Rocks

Honorable Mention: $25
Carol MacKay
Bawlf, Alberta

A Wide Place for My Steps

Honorable Mention: $25
Jana Griffin
Cody, Wyoming

The Daisy

Honorable Mention: $25
Marianne Jones
Thunder Bay, Ontario

i decide not to sign up for an evening watercolour class

Honorable Mention: $25
Bonnie Ross
Spruce Grove , Alberta

Winter

Honorable Mention: $25
Linda Knight
South Woodslee, Ontario

The Breath of Life

First Prize: $200
Ev Heffernan
Calgary, Alberta

The Hostage

Second Prize: $100
Marcia Laycock
Ponoka, Alberta

Simile at Starbucks

Honorable Mention: $15
Sue Plett
Calgary, Alberta

Apology to Lazarus

Honorable Mention: $15
Linda Siebenga
Calgary, Alberta

Kindling Found Randomly in Strange Places

Honorable Mention: $15
H. Maxwell Butcher
Calgary, Alberta

Throw it Away

Honorable Mention: $15
Brenda Parsons
Calgary, Alberta

My Journey Home

Honorable Mention: $15
Elizabeth Jane Clarkson
Calgary, Alberta

Dancing Girls