Power: A Public Poetry Anthology

Thank you to all the poets who entered the 2018 POWER contest. We received over 600 poems, and the judges chose thirty of them to be published in an e-book, which will also include the Judges' Statements.$1000 GRAND PRIZE WINNERBruce Bond WaveRUNNERS-UP1st runner up: Bruce Bond Lydia2nd runner up: Simon Shieh The Only Language He Has Given Us3rd runner up: Usha Akella NamingFINALISTS:Kristin Hoggatt-Abader Trapping Fruit FliesJerry Bradley: Rats and RainwaterJoshua Burton Grace and PityAlexandria Delcourt The Marcos HighwayTyler Dunston Deep Sea FishingKatherine Fishburn Head, 1948-Homage to Francis BaconStephen Haven Rope Tied to a Song: April 30, 1975Bernard Horn Try To RememberCindy Huyser Behind the Church in LandstuhlBridgette Jordan Third SundayAnna Leahy A Thousand SunsAnna Leahy Shooting StarMary Makofske BordersMegan de Matteo Ellis IslandMegan de MatteoWhite PowerLisa Moore CackleCandice Reffe The Executive's Assistant's Astral ExistenceDulcie VeluthukaranRentedHONORABLE MENTIONKim Garcia I Wanted The End, It Is TrueAidah Gil With Milk PleaseStephen Harvey Losing VirajRosa Lane Tomboy's OrbitMadison Samarjian New MoonCaleb Scott, For Russell & Yuval on the Occasion of Their WeddingStanford Searl At the Scaffold (from Mary Dyer's Hymn and other Quaker Poems)