Regoni of Campobello won all three prizes in the student competition – first, “Fourth Grade Gym Class;” second, “Camp 14,” and third, “The Year You Taught Religion.”  Prizes in the humor category – first, Lynn Paul Elwell of Durham for “Insanity Plea;” second, John Steele of Black Mountain for “Lament for Cat, My Cat,” and third, Tom Hooker of Hendersonville for “Eponimosity.”

The following entries in the adult competition were awarded an honorable mention:  Richard Danforth of Columbus for “Breaking Fast” and for “Work for Food”; Aly Goodwin of Spartanburg for “Field Pilgrim”; Suzanna Linton of Florence for “Red Bank”; Monica Jones of Tryon for “Softly Sleeping”; Elwell of Durham for “Snowglobe”; Sherry Champion of Landrum for “Horsefly”; and Janet Atkins of Greenville for “Retrospective on an Empty Nest.” In the humor category poems receiving honorable mentions were “Sonnet for the Class of 2014” by Bill Dalton of Beaufort, S.C., and “Ode to Eflexor” by John Steele of Black Mountain, N.C.

In the student competition the following awards were given for honorably mentioned poems: Nicholas DeSoiza of Greer for “The Child in the Corner,” Katelyn McCall of Landrum for “On Drowning,” Canon Blackwell of Simpsonville for “Vater, otoc, agus athair,” and Regoni for “Geese, Dolphins, and the Death of a Mate” and “A Playlist for the March of We.”

– article submitted by Frances Flynn