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Kitty Davis won first prize in the Maine Postmark poetry contest! Her poem “On a Hillside in Umbria” will be published in the Maine Review.

We had a submission party at our September retreat. Kay White Drew submitted a poem that was published 2 days later!

Clem Hendricson's poem, "Dry," won a commendation and will be published in a book. The competition was run by the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society which was set up in 1946 by Vita Sackville West. 

Maggie Flaherty WON the Bethesda Poetry Prize. Read her winning poem here.

Fran Abrams has a full-length collection published by Atmosphere Press, I Rode the Second Wave, now available in bookstores. For information about her chapbooks, see her website.

Please read Eileen Toomey's poem, "Immunotherapy," which was workshopped in a Tuesday class and won 2nd Prize in Cleaver Magazine's Form and Breaking Form contest last year, judged by Diane Seuss.

Madaleine Sorkin will have a poem in the next issue of "The Alpinist," an archival-quality quarterly for the rock-climbing community nation-wide.

Read Maggie Flaherty's poem "Tacoma" here on Yellow Arrow's new Vignette's site.

Clem Henricson's "Bird Crash" can be read in the summer '22 issue of Slipstream.
Kay White won 3rd Prize in the Eastern Shore Writer's Assoc. poetry contest with "Triptych," a poem she workshopped in one of our ongoing Tuesday poetry groups. She has a poem and and essay in Intima, a journal of narrative medicine. Her fantastic memoir of medical school in the '70's is available now.

Kay Newhouse's poem "Abbracciame," is included as the closing poem in The COVID Verses, from Paddler Press. She shares it on her Facebook page here. It's a joyful experience for me to see the poems begun in workshops make their way through revision to print.

John Heath made the long list for the Fish Poetry prize, judged by Billy Collins, meaning his poem was in the top 11% of over 2000 poems. (2nd try. Persistence pays).
Patrick Gibson is a double-winner in a contest sponsored by the Detroit Writing Room and his winning poem and flash fiction will be published in Detroit Voices. He also has a poem (which began in one of our classes) published in Peninsula Poets.
read Sue Eisenfeld's fantastic (and first published) poem, "Grandmother" in "Poets Reading the News"
Melanie Choukas-Bradley has had a number of poems published on "Writing in a Woman's Voice" and has won the Moon Prize ($$!) an unprecedented 4 times. Search Bradley on the site to read them all.
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