CONGRATULATIONS to our winners and honorable mentions and to all those who submitted their poems to the first annual Northern California Women’s Music Festival poetry contest! It was an honor and a privilege to read your work.
1st Place — Iris Jamahl Dunkle, “Instructions for Sailing Around the Cape”
2nd Place — Helen Wickes, “Old-Time Crayolas”
3rd Place — Louise Kantro, “By the Campfire, Borrego Desert”
Honorable Mentions
JoAnn Anglin, “Sisters”
Lynn M. Hansen, “Self Portrait”
Georgette Howington, “The Erogyny of Panties…”
Eileen Malone, “Quickening”
Prudence Starr, “I’m the Mom Forever Umbilicus and Watery”