National Finalists:
Aaron
Patrick Flanagan: "Passing On," "Not a Ghost Story" and
"Make yr peace; say yr goodbyes."
Marci Ameluxen: "I Dreamed I Was the Egg," "Rain,
Northwest Meaning," and "Last Visit with My Mother."
Deborah
DeNicola: "The Glass Darkly," and "From Santa Barbara."
Julia Meylor Simpson: "Lost Children of the Prairie."
E.P.
Schultz: "Thetis' Uncovered Guilt of Achilles' Heel" and
"Under the Covers of Colossus."
Lois
Parker Edstrom: "Wellington Train Disaster."
Lynn
Veach Sadler: "Homeless."
Brooks
Carver: "Change of Seasons."
Joanne
Lowery: "Satan's Song" and "Nutcracker."
James
K. Zimmerman: "Sparrow Logic."
Salvatore Marici: "Eve" and "Witness Crossing the
Threshold."
Valerie
Wallace: "The Fawn" and "American Grace."
Carol Carpenter: "What the Old Woman Sees from Her
Frosted Window."
Richard
Ilnicki: "Primordial congealed fossilized."
E.Tammy
Kim: "Evanescence."
Catherine Moran: "To remember the crossing."
Regional Finalists
Amie
Whittemore: "The Problem of Naming."
Dallas
Crow: "Why I Am Not Frank O'Hara."
Susan
Solomon: "They Come and Go at Will" and "Fold."
Jacob
Boyd: "After the Ruined Birthday Party," "Lines Written
Along the Fox River," and "Driving Drunk."
Sue
Howell: "Balloons," "Farmers Market, September," and
"Odyssey Touring."
Kate
Hutchinson: "Scatter, Scatter (a double abecedarian),"
"Metaphoric at 50," and "Trajectory."
E.P.
Schultz: "I Look for Signs."
Catherine Jagoe: "Solstice Under Snow."
Brett
Foster: "Theater of Cruelty" and "This Dear
Geography."
Heather
Derr-Smith: "Thrown," "Shelter" and "Flood Aftermath."
Teddy
Norris: "Since Lucia's Been Gone."
Gail
Goepfert: "let nothing disentangle."
Gayle
Rein: "A Solace of Sorts."
Joan
Johannes: "From Cradle Too."
Julia
Gordon-Bramer: "Pluto Will Always Be a Planet to Me."
