Category 1: The FSPA Free Verse Award
1st Mary Ellen Orvis Women’s Day March, NYC, 1975
2nd Juli Simon Ocean Speak
3rd Chris Kastle Small Bird
1st HM Shutta Crum Of Covenants
2nd HM Katherine Nelson-Born One Cent Story
3rd HM Mary Rogers-Grantham A Rainbow Dies
Category 2: The FSPA Formal Verse Award
1st Diane Neff I Knew a Woman
2nd Catherine Moran At the Gas Station
3rd Peter M. Gordon Inner Life
1st HM Holly Mandelkern The Call to Courage
2nd HM Lorraine Jeffery Beyond Me
3rd HM Marianne Peel Musical Autopsy
Category 3: The Live Poets Society of Daytona Beach Award
1st Carlton Johnson & After the Darkness Abated
2nd Tanya Young The Silencing
3rd Peter M. Gordon The Deuce – 1978
1st HM Johnathan Bennett Superior
2nd HM Lisa Kamolnick Tsunami Warning
3rd HM Holly Mandelkern Weighing the Words
Category 4: The Tomoka Poets Award
1st Cheryl A. Van Beek Queen Hippocampus
2nd Marianne Peel Take Me to the Seaside With You
3rd Beth Ramos Sea Glass
1st HM Marc Davidson This Picture Calls to Me
2nd HM Llewelyn McKernan No Longer at the Seaside
3rd HM Susan Stahr Midnight Beach Challenge
Category 5: The Willard B. Foster Memorial Award
1st Grace Diane Jessen Driving Lesson
2nd Beth Ramos Forgive Me, Grandma
3rd Suzanne S. Austin-Hill Shushed Myself
1st HM Beverly Joyce Common Ground
2nd HM Lisa Kamolnick Modest Molly Teaches Her Brothers
How to Write a Limerick
3rd HM Sophie Gholz You
Category 6: The Jock G. and George K. Terry Award
1st Katherine (Kit) Schmeiser Everywhere
2nd Patricia Barnes Border
3rd Suzanne S. Austin-Hill The Journal
1st HM Nina Heiser Wishing on the Moon
2nd HM Daniel Moreschi Maracaibo Melodies
3rd HM Howard Moon Stopping to Watch the Sunshine
Category 7: The June Owens Memorial Award
1st Stephanie DuPont A Day Like This
2nd Mark Andrew James Terry Almost
3rd Diane Neff Reflections
1st HM Catherine Moran Learning How to Squint
2nd HM Cheryl A. Van Beek Vincent’s Version of Squinting
Into the Sun
3rd HM Peter M. Gordon Brighton Beach
Category 8: The New River Poets Award
1st John Michael Sears Line, Point, Circle: Shapes of Time
2nd Daniel Moreschi Chasing Shadows
3rd Suzanne S. Austin-Hill Some Things Wonder Full #2
1st HM Jerri Hardesty Synaesthesia
2nd HM Joanne Vandegrift On Second Thought
3rd HM Ruth Van Alstine Great Grandma’s Wash
Category 9: The Poet’s Vision Award
1st Lisa Kamolnick Agnostication
2nd Mary Ellen Orvis Detour on Route 66
3rd Marianne Peel Sunrise at Loretto Motherhouse
in Kentucky
1st HM Michael Shoemaker Pa’s Second Chance
2nd HM Tanya Young The Edge of Tomorrow
3rd HM Lorraine Jeffery Kintsugi
Category 10: The Alfred Von Brokoph Award
1st Marianne Peel Troubleshooting
2nd Peter M. Gordon Brothers
3rd Claire Massey Realignment
1st HM Katherine Nelson-Born Fire Eater
2nd HM Tanya Young The Last Keeper of the Pink House
3rd HM Sharon Scholl Photo Album: Senior Prom
Category 11: The Janet Binkley Erwin Memorial Award
1st Terry Jude Miller Nolan Road Notebook
2nd Marianne Peel Aunt Eleanor Conjures Aquanet
and Sultry Night Neon Red Lipstick
3rd Janet Watson The Coldest Water
1st HM Katherine (Kit) Schmeiser Four Words
2nd HM Sharon Scholl Almost
3rd HM Tanya Young Uncle Thunder Sleeps it Off
Category 12: The Kate Kennedy Memorial Award
1st Cheryl A. Van Beek The Chocolate Taster
2nd Robyn Weinbaum Ganache
3rd Susan Stahr Chocolate
1st HM Marc Davidson Hello, Mr. Chips
2nd HM Jinny Kelley Cocoa
3rd HM Mary Ellen Orvis Chocolate (septolet)
Category 13: The Henrietta & Mark Kroah Founders Award
1st Grace Diane Jessen Wondering at a Wedding
2nd Peter M. Gordon A Wedding
3rd Katherine Nelson-Born Gulf Coast Wedding
1st HM V. Kimball Barney Today I Danced
2nd HM Sara Gipson Cloudy Wedding
3rd HM Fred Briggs Love Isn’t a Many Splendored Thing
Category 14: The Past Presidents’ Award
1st Janet Watson Hypnagogia
2nd Laura Rutherford Discovering Dessert
3rd Suzanne S. Austin-Hill In the Present Presence of my Shadow
1st HM Sharon Scholl Intimation
2nd HM Jerri Hardesty Oasis
3rd HM Catherine Moran Once Upon a Time
Category 15a: The Orlando Area Poets Award
1st Shutta Crum Where the Good Dog Sleeps
2nd Mark Andrew James Terry Oligarch of the Park
3rd John Michael Sears My Transcendental Feline
1st HM Dorothy Kamm The Clever Crow
2nd HM Suzanne S. Austin-Hill Most Meaningful Words From
my Uncle Bob…
3rd HM Janet Watson The Diva
Category 15b: The Orlando Area Poets Award
1st Joanne Vandegrift Paper Plate People
2nd Dr. Emory D. Jones Sacred Music
3rd Claire Massey Questions for Thinking Tree Theorists
1st HM Susan Stahr My Thinking Spot
2nd HM Catherine Moran Looking at the Water Drops
3rd HM Mary Rogers-Grantham How Far is Nowhere
Category 16: The Leslie Halpern Memorial Award
1st B. J. Alligood The Dream Giver
2nd Susan Stahr Night Fire Dreaming
3rd Joanne Vandegrift Perfect Memory
1st HM Holly Mandelkern Not By Chance
2nd HM Cheryl A. Van Beek Sway
3rd HM Kenice Broughman Some Dreams Die Hard
Category 17: The Humor Award
1st Grace Diane Jessen After The Fall
2nd Lynn Schiffhorst Hill Street
3rd Ellen Nielsen The Survivor
1st HM Elaine Person Lunch in the Park: A Pigeon’s Eye View
2nd HM Joanne Vandegrift Some ’er Knights (and some aren’t)
3rd HM Janet Watson My Largest Organ
Category 18: The Childhood Award
1st Marc Davidson Literature
2nd Mark Andrew James Terry Quest for the Elfin King
3rd Susan Stahr The Big Chair
1st HM Carolynn J. Scully Riddle for Young Reader
2nd HM Catherine Moran Children Discovering Life
3rd HM Mary Ellen Orvis My Happiest Times
Category 19: The Weinbaum/Glidden Award
1st Marianne Peel Teach me to Dance, Because Bodies
Never Lie
2nd Sandra Lake Lassen The Good Daughter
3rd Jerri Hardesty They’re Still Out There
1st HM Patricia Barnes The Gift of Patience with One’s Self
2nd HM Peter M. Gordon AIDS in the 80s
3rd HM R. M. Williams II Lay Your Burdens Down
Category 20: The Irwin & Estelle Weinbaum Memorial Award
1st Gary J. Weston Life Lines
2nd Jerri Hardesty One Family
3rd Diane Neff Beyond Us and Them
1st HM Catherine Moran Struggle of Those Outside the Lines
2nd HM Marc Davidson Margin Call
3rd HM Sara Gipson To Win a Race
Category 21: The Enchantment Award
1st Stephanie DuPont They Say This House is Haunted
2nd Sophia Gholz In the Night
3rd Susan Stahr Danger, Will Robinson
1st HM Peggy Evans Hughes Everglades Haiku
2nd HM Carlton Johnson Outer Space
3rd HM Mary Ellen Orvis Hallowed Eve
Category 22: The Ekphrastic Poem Award
1st Carolynn Scully She Knows
2nd Christa Fairbrother Pain is a Storm
3rd Marianne Peel Todo Sufrimiento/All Suffering
1st HM Robyn Weinbaum The Girl with the Green Eyes
2nd HM Suzanne S. Austin-Hill Converse of the Creature
3rd HM Cheryl A. Van Beek Osmosis
Category 23: The North Florida Poetry Hub Award
1st Kenice Broughman On the Other Side
2nd Gisele Marasca-Vargas In the End
3rd Llewellyn McKernan Hope
1st HM Mark Andrew James Terry Hope of Every Kind
2nd HM Howard Moon Hope of Every Day
3rd HM Nina Heiser A Child at Risk
Category 24: The Look Deeper Award
1st Margaret Ryan Frost’s Rainy Night
2nd Nancy Simmonds Calling Up Our Memories
3rd Holly Mandelkern Somewhere I Had Never Travelled
Either, ee cummings
1st HM B. Shawn Clark Ravenous Darkness
2nd HM Marc Davidson The Ballad of East and West
3rd HM Mary Rogers-Grantham A Container of Words
Category 25: The Josephine Davidson Memorial Award
1st Jerri Hardesty Poisonous Words
2nd Holly Mandelkern Praying at Sunrise
3rd Diane Neff Doubt Overcome
1st HM V. Kimball Barney Changing the World
2nd HM Gary J. Weston Election Connection
3rd HM Elaine Person Rejection Direction
Category 26: The Book Not The Cover Award
1st R. M. Williams II In the Presence of a Composer
2nd Kenice Broughman Leaving Skye
3rd Janet Watson Bee and Blossom
1st HM Michael Dechane Wild Plums
2nd HM Cheryl A. Van Beek Seeing Like Matisse
3rd HM Amy Wray Irish The Promise of the Stones
Category 27: The Homeplace Award
1st Stephanie DuPont Maple Street
2nd Lori Zavada Home
3rd Diane Neff This Planet We Call Home
1st HM Cheryl A. Van Beek Where She Lives
2nd HM Bruce Woodworth The Sounds of Home
3rd HM Ann Favreau Homestead
Category 28: The Suncoast Writers Guild Poetry Pod Award
1st Diane Neff Ponce de Leon
2nd Mary Ellen Orvis Highway 41 Revisited
3rd Janet Watson Friendship at Cross Creek
1st HM Peter M. Gordon Conway
2nd HM Sophia Gholz Augustine Fall
3rd HM Lisa Kamolnick A Sort of Florida Garden
Category 29: The In Your Own Voice Award
1st Jonathan Bennett in media anxietatis
2nd Marianne Peel Sometimes There Is Nothing To Do
But Wait
3rd Marc Davidson Reflection Before Bedtime
1st HM Gisele Marasca-Vargas Dark Moment
2nd HM Sara Gipson Depression Trap
3rd HM Diane Neff Yoga Class
Category 30: The Northwest Florida Poets Award
1st Holly Mandelkern The Remnants Near The Ryman
2nd Lynn Schiffhorst Poets To The Rescue
3rd Susan Stahr Yellow
1st HM Marc Davidson Eternal Cycle
2nd HM Lorraine Jeffery After a Long Winter
3rd HM Fred Briggs Adam’s Explanation