IBPC Winning Poems: 2007-Present
Sort by Date Sort by Board 2000-2006 Poems
Author |
Poem |
Board |
Place |
Month |
| Daniel Abelman | Dying in Jerusalem | conjunction | First Place | December 2012 |
| Daniel Abelman | awake Yeshurun! | conjunction | Second Place | July 2013 |
| Elodie Ackerman | Cherry Grove | The Town | Honorable Mention | July 2007 |
| Elodie Ackerman | Afterglow | The Town | First Place | October 2007 |
| C. Albert | Manufactured to Perform | criticalpoet.org | First Place | December 2009 |
| Tom Allen | Sleep | poets.org | Honorable Mention | July 2008 |
| Hugh Anderson | Perfect | Desert Moon Review | Third Place (Tie) | May 2012 |
| Hugh Anderson | Dog in Winter | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | March 2014 |
| Hugh Anderson | Echoes | Desert Moon Review | First Place | March 2016 |
| Beverleigh Gail Annegarn | Zambezi Storm | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | September 2008 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | Urban Crows | The Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2015 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | Trousered Women | The Writer's Block | Third Place | June 2016 |
| Ieuan ap hywel | Time Portal At Fenchurch St. Station | The Writer's Block | First Place | August 2021 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | Cycling Across t’Bridge | The Writer's Block | First Place | November 2021 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Lines Drawn in Water | The Waters | Honorable Mention | October 2016 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | I Used to Miss My Tail | The Waters | Third Place | December 2012 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | The Bell | The Waters | First Place | January 2014 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Petit Choux | The Waters | Honorable Mention | February 2014 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Why I can’t stop myself being in love with staying up so late | The Waters | First Place | September 2015 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Mouse in April’s Winter | The Waters | Honorable Mention | June 2018 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | I kissed a tree | The Waters | Third Place | August 2018 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | How the Wind Works | The Waters | First Place | January 2019 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | I think of the colour purple | The Waters | First Place | May 2019 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Chanticleer | The Waters | First Place | August 2019 |
| Alison Armstrong-Webber | Kingsmere | The Waters | First Place | July 2019 |
| Ashura | Debris | Pen Shells | Third Place | October 2008 |
| Ken Ashworth | Roots | The Writer's Block | Third Place | July 2008 |
| Ken Ashworth | Lullaby | The Writer's Block | Second Place | November 2017 |
| Ken Ashworth | Poem in Exile in the Style of Neruda | The Writer's Block | First Place | June 2018 |
| Ken Ashworth | The First Time I Drank With My Father | The Waters | First Place | July 2018 |
| Ken Ashworth | The Penitent | The Writer's Block | Third Place | October 2018 |
| Ken Ashworth | Radium Girls | The Writer's Block | First Place | November 2018 |
| Ken Ashworth | Not a Poem of Crows | The Waters | First Place | February 2019 |
| Ken Ashworh | Houses | The Writer's Block | First Place | September 2019 |
| Ken Ashworth | Dante’s Outer Circles | The Writer's Block | Second Place | October 2019 |
| Ken Ashworth | The War Bride | The Waters | Honorable Mention | December 2019 |
| Ken Ashworth | Blast | The Waters | Second Place | January 2020 |
| Ken Ashworth | To a Wayward Son | The Waters | Second Place | April 2020 |
| Ken Ashworth | Beggar’s Lice | The Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2020 |
| Ken Ashworth | Live Nativity | The Waters | Second Place | January 2021 |
| Ken Ashworth | Town Square | The Writer's Block | Third Place | May 2021 |
| Ken Ashworth | Longfellow’s Wife | The Waters | First Place | June 2021 |
| Ken Ashworth | Hospice | The Writer's Block | Third Place | August 2021 |
| Ken Ashworth | Sodom by the Sea | The Writer's Block | First Place | August 2022 |
| Kenneth Ashworth | For God and Country | The Writer's Block | Third Place | December 2021 |
| Linda Balboni | Time Gone Cold | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | December 2007 |
| Daniel Barlow | Bird Caller | The Maelstrom | Third Place | April 2007 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Noisy Mornings | The Waters | First Place | March 2019 |
| Sandy Benitez | Surviving the Ugly | SplashHall Poetry | Third Place | August 2008 |
| Jennifer Bennett | Doris Gray pictures regret | conjunction | Second Place (tie) | August 2009 |
| Gary Blankenship | Songs from Stephen King’s Knapsack III: Insomnia | Blueline | Honorable Mention | June 2007 |
| Gary Blankenship | After Howl III — Rockin’ the Ages | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | August 2007 |
| Tim Blighton | Mariposa | Desert Moon Review | First Place | May 2009 |
| Tim Blighton | Ars Poetica #7 | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | February 2010 |
| Timothy Blighton | Surgery at 14 | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | August 2009 |
| Greta Bolger | Nebraska, Summer | The Waters | First Place | February 2018 |
| Greta Bolger | Milk Noodle | The Waters | First Place | December 2008 |
| Greta Bolger | In the Waiting Room | The Waters | First Place | July 2011 |
| Greta Bolger | How to Turn a Mountain into a Molehill | The Waters | Second Place | May 2014 |
| Greta Bolger | Vanessa and Vietnam | The Waters | Third Place | August 2014 |
| Greta Bolger | José y Maria | The Waters | First Place | February 2015 |
| Greta Bolger | A father like mine | The Waters | Second Place | August 2015 |
| Greta Bolger | Zipline | The Waters | Third Place | February 2016 |
| Greta Bolger | In another country with strangers | The Waters | Third Place | May 2019 |
| Greta Bolger | At Last Ghazal | The Waters | Third Place | March 2022 |
| Jana Bouma | Caisa Thorbjornsdotter | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | March 2007 |
| Rus Bowden | Isaac and the Apple | Babilu | Third Place | August 2022 |
| Marty Bradley | Letter to a Friend Long Dead | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | July 2014 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Flowering Chestnut Trees, Auschwitz | The Waters | Honorable Mention | May 2016 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Longfellow | The Writer's Block | First Place | August 2016 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Starry Night Over the Rhone | The Waters | First Place | September 2016 |
| Bob Bradshaw | How Did It Go | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | October 2016 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Tibet | The Waters | Third Place | February 2017 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Love Story | The Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2017 |
| Bob Bradshaw | You Arrive Like Fall, Suddenly | The Writer's Block | First Place | January 2018 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Goldback Fern | The Writer's Block | Second Place | February 2018 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Poetry in the Cultural Revolution | The Waters | Third Place | December 2018 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Last Game of the Season | The Writer's Block | Second Place | August 2019 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The Writer's Block | Second Place | September 2019 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Beethoven Dying | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | December 2019 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Separation | The Writer's Block | Third Place | April 2020 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Burying My Brother | The Waters | First Place | May 2020 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Beethoven Unhappy | The Writer's Block | Third Place | July 2020 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Who knew you would become a comet | The Writer's Block | Second Place (tie) | August 2020 |
| Bob Bradshaw | To My Old Age | The Waters | Second Place | November 2020 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Ode to My Ears | The Writer's Block | Third Place | March 2021 |
| Bob Bradshaw | In My Next Life I Want to Return as an Animal | The Writer's Block | Second Place | June 2021 |
| Bob Bradshaw | If I Needed Someone | The Writer's Block | Second Place | July 2021 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Vietnam Memorial | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | December 2021 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Training to Be a Star | The Writer's Block | Third Place | January 2022 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Phone Of The Wind | The Writer's Block | Third Place | May 2022 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Li Po Adrift | The Writer's Block | Third Place | July 2022 |
| Bob Bradshaw | Red Spider Lilies | The Writer's Block | Second Place (tie) | November 2019 |
| Brandon | Haul | The Maelstrom | Honorable Mention | July 2007 |
| Tim J. Brennan | A Good Day to Die | About Poetry Forum | Third Place | October 2007 |
| Tim J. Brennan | Night Sepia | About Poetry Forum | Second Place | December 2009 |
| Emily Brink | Evening Prayer | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | December 2008 |
| Emily Brink | Czarny Polewka (Black Soup) | The Writer's Block | First Place | April 2009 |
| Emily Brink | Song for the Ghost of Gabriel Gomez | The Writers Block | Honorable Mention | March 2010 |
| Ken Brownlow | In the next life we were married | The Waters | First Place | April 2020 |
| Laurie Byro | The Snow Angel | Babilu | Third Place | May 2014 |
| Christopher T. George | Bills and Yet More Bills | FreeWrights Peer Review | Honorable Mention | October 2009 |
| Arlin Buyert | Tool Shed | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2013 |
| Laurie Byro | Wolf Dreams | Desert Moon Review | First Place | January 2007 |
| Laurie Byro | The Rival | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | February 2007 |
| Laurie Byro | The Bird Artists | About Poetry Forum | First Place | March 2007 |
| Laurie Byro | Rapunzel at 49 Learns to Dance the Tarantella | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | June 2007 |
| Laurie Byro | My Mother’s Bones | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | December 2007 |
| Laurie Byro | Stoma | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | February 2008 |
| Laurie Byro | Living in the Body of a Firefly | Desert Moon Review | 2nd Place | August 2008 |
| Laurie Byro | Snake Song | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | September 2008 |
| Laurie Byro | Dinner With the Ghost of Rilke | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | January 2009 |
| Laurie Byro | Virginia Sings Back To the Stones In Her Pockets | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | February 2009 |
| Laurie Byro | Der Busant | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| Laurie Byro | The Secret Life | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | September 2009 |
| Laurie Byro | Godiva’s Horse | Desert Moon Review | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Laurie Byro | Weasel | Desert Moon Review | Second Place (tie) | June 2010 |
| Laurie Byro | Bone-Song | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | July 2010 |
| Laurie Byro | Green Holly Man New Year, 2011 | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | February 2011 |
| Laurie Byro | Two Doves | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | March 2011 |
| Laurie Byro | Ophelia Speaks | Desert Moon Review | First Place | May 2011 |
| Laurie Byro | Eating Crow | Desert Moon Review | First Place | November 2011 |
| Laurie Byro | The Lost Daughter | Desert Moon Review | First Place | March 2012 |
| Laurie Byro | Hansel Ties the Knot | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | March 2013 |
| Laurie Byro | Why I’m not a Monk | Babilu | Second Place | September 2013 |
| Laurie Byro | Snow Bees | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | April 2014 |
| Laurie Byro | Wintry Peacock | Desert Moon Review | First Place | August 2014 |
| Laurie Byro | Noon Witches | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | October 2014 |
| Laurie Byro | 27 Rue de Fleurus | Babilu | First Place | April 2015 |
| Laurie Byro | Blue on Blue Room (1901) | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | October 2015 |
| Laurie Byro | Woman With a Hat (1905) | Desert Moon Review | First Place | November 2015 |
| Laurie Byro | A Fox as Fey Totem | Babilu | Honorable Mention | April 2016 |
| Laurie Byro | A Poem for Ash | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | October 2016 |
| Laurie Byro | Sparrow | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | January 2017 |
| Laurie Byro | The Vestal Lady of Venice | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | February 2017 |
| Laurie Byro | Mountain Church Larrau | Desert Moon Review | First Place | March 2017 |
| Laurie Byro | Silver Bed Head | PenShells | Honorable Mention | April 2017 |
| Laurie Byro | The Aging Magician Speaks to His Reflection | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | July 2017 |
| Laurie Byro | J. Alfred Prufrock Searches for Mrs. Right | Babilu | Third Place | July 2018 |
| Laurie Byro | An Octopus’s Garden in the Time of Social Distancing | Babilu | First Place | July 2020 |
| Laurie Byro | Notorious RBG | Babilu | First Place | November 2020 |
| Laurie Byro | The Three Fates | The Waters | First Place | July 2021 |
| Linda E. Cable | Feast of Disappointments | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | July 2008 |
| Linda E. Cable | Compression | SplashHall Poetry | Honorable Mention | October 2008 |
| Yolanda Calderon-Horn | Papa | The Writers Block | Second Place | April 2011 |
| Yolanda Calderon-Horn | The Sandwich Hour | New Cafe | Second Place | May 2007 |
| Yolanda Calderon-Horn | The Cardiologist Has a Word with Us | The Town | Third Place | January 2008 |
| Gerry Callaghan | The Epicures | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | December 2013 |
| Gerry Callaghan | Beyond Repair | The Write Idea | Second Place | November 2014 |
| Gerry Callaghan | Eden and Other Places | The Write Idea | Third Place | January 2015 |
| David Callin | Glass | Poets' Graves | Third Place | June 2010 |
| Debbie Calverley | Absence of Detail | criticalpoet.org | Third Place | February 2010 |
| Lana Wiltshire Campbell | The First Cut | Blueline Poetry | Honorable Mention | March 2010 |
| Kim Cassidy | Nevada, U.S. Highway 6 | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | April 2013 |
| Cate | and then there was the day even words were gone | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | December 2014 |
| Kenny A. Chaffin | Night Thoughts of a Mottled Songbird | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | October 2017 |
| Kenny A. Chaffin | Tires | Babilu | First Place | December 2018 |
| Kenny A. Chaffin | World Affairs | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place (tie) | November 2019 |
| Kenny A. Chaffin | A Clear Crisp Morning | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | April 2021 |
| Richard Chase | Seeking Duende | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | July 2017 |
| Antonia Clark | Convalescence | The Waters | Second Place | October 2008 |
| Antonia Clark | Smoke and Mirrors | The Waters | First Place | August 2009 |
| Antonia Clark | Triolet on a Line by Billy Collins | The Waters | Honorable Mention | February 2010 |
| Antonia Clark | November | The Waters | Second Place | December 2016 |
| Antonia Clark | A Brief History of Rain | The Waters | First Place | May 2018 |
| Antonia Clark | The Woman Who Grew up in My House Finds Me on Facebook and Comes to Take a Look Around | The Waters | Third Place | January 2019 |
| Antonia Clark | Natural History | The Waters | Third Place | April 2019 |
| Toni Clark | Ode to What Settles | The Waters | Third Place | August 2011 |
| Carmela Cohen | ‘serPina biNary | conjunction | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Carmela Cohen | anorak | conjunction | Honorable Mention | June 2010 |
| Carla Conway | It | The Critical Poet | Honorable Mention | May 2007 |
| Brenda Nixon Cook | Super Nova | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | August 2007 |
| K.R. Copeland | Love Letters | The Waters | Honorable Mention | January 2020 |
| Julie Corbett | Dust Sparkles in the Night | The Write Idea | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Julie Corbett | St. Hilda Home | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | June 2010 |
| Maryann Corbett | Crossing at Night | The Waters | Third Place | December 2007 |
| C.J. Costello | The Catch | The Poets' Graves | First Place | August 2010 |
| Michael Creighton | Ache | The Waters | First Place | October 2008 |
| Michael Creighton | Feed the Snake | The Waters | Honorable Mention | March 2011 |
| Michelle Beth Cronk | Natural Selections | Poetry Circle | Third Place | August 2010 |
| Lee Crowell | Born with a Burden | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | February 2015 |
| R. L. Crowther | Somewhere the Sun Is Shining | conjunction | First Place | May 2010 |
| Connie DeDona | Toad Festival | Blueline | Second Place (tie) | August 2009 |
| Opie DeLetta | Section 8 | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | August 2011 |
| Elizabeth DiBenedetto | Masked Artwork | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | April 2007 |
| Divina | 5 o’clock | Pen Shells | Third Place | June 2009 |
| Divina | air poem | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | September 2009 |
| Divina | Across Europe and beyond | PenShells | Honorable Mention | March 2012 |
| William Dixon | Harley’s Calf | Tin Roof Alley Poets | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Laurel K. Dodge | Insatiable | MiPoesias | Honorable Mention | July 2007 |
| Laurel K. Dodge | A Rush of Clouds | The Writer's Block | Third Place | April 2009 |
| Laurel K. Dodge | Here With You | The Writer's Block | First Place | April 2010 |
| Lynn Doiron | Her Quinceañera | Poetry Circle | Second Place | September 2010 |
| Jim Doss | a Thanksgiving Poem by Lemondrop Johnson | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | January 2016 |
| Jim Doss | Giving Thanks | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | September 2017 |
| Jim Doss | Cancer | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | December 2017 |
| Jim Doss | Waiting for the Second Coming | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | January 2018 |
| Jim Doss | Cuttlefish | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | March 2018 |
| Jim Doss | The Photograph | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | May 2018 |
| Jim Doss | Still Life With Woodpecker | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | August 2021 |
| Jim Doss | Neighbors | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | October 2021 |
| Jim Doss | Opening the Letter | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | November 2021 |
| Jim Doss | Grandmother in Heaven | Babilu | Third Place | April 2022 |
| Jim Doss | My Soul to Keep | Babilu | Second Place | July 2022 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Baseball Season | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | April 2009 |
| Andrew Dufresne | I Thought I Would Say | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | February 2012 |
| Andrew Dufresne | This Could Be | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | July 2012 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Mosquitoes | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | June 2014 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Overgrown Road | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | September 2015 |
| Andrew Dufresne | The Quiet Work | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2017 |
| Andrew Dufresne | The Sorrow of Hearts | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | April 2017 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Perhaps This | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | May 2017 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Hope Springs Like a Panther from a Large Boulder Overhead | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | November 2017 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Driving Home From Santa Rosa | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | May 2018 |
| Andrew Dufresne | My Bicycle | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | July 2018 |
| Andrew Dufresne | The Unreliable Narrator | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | November 2018 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Song for Picnic Ants | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | June 2019 |
| Andrew Dufresne | The Fine Print of Rescue | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | August 2019 |
| Andrew Dufresne | Heteroglossia | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | July 2020 |
| Andrew Dufresne | September Heat | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | October 2020 |
| Andrew Dufresne | September Heat | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | March 2022 |
| David Durham | End of the Road | PenShells | Third Place | May 2011 |
| Kathy Earsman | Jackie | Mosaic Musings | Third Place | June 2007 |
| Brian Edwards | Castle Hawk | The Poets' Graves | Second Place | June 2009 |
| Brian Edwards | Old Women Farming Rice | The Poets' Graves | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| John Eivaz | insu mni ac | PenShells | Third Place | September 2011 |
| John Eivaz | Confusion of the Moment | The Waters | Third Place | June 2015 |
| AnnMarie Eldon | Brrmmm | MiPoesias | Second Place | January 2007 |
| AnnMarie Eldon | Boundaryless in Bedlam | The Writer's Block | Second Place | February 2007 |
| Adam Elgar | Elders: Vincent and Prudence | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | January 2007 |
| Adam Elgar | Venetian Notes | Inside the Writer's Studio | Honorable Mention | March 2007 |
| Adam Elgar | The Daughter of Antiochus | The Writer's Block | Second Place | June 2007 |
| Adam Elgar | The Man Next Door According to His Pockets | The Writer's Block | Second Place | July 2007 |
| Adam Elgar | Séance | The Writer's Block | Third Place | February 2008 |
| Adam Elgar | Musée de la Résistance – Vaucluse | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | October 2008 |
| Richard Evans | Flood | Moontown Cafe | Honorable Mention | June 2008 |
| Sylvia Evelyn | Unwelcome Guest | Babilu | Honorable Mention | June 2017 |
| Sylvia Evelyn | Resonance | Babilu | Honorable Mention | July 2017 |
| Sylvia Evelyn | Patagonia Lost | Babilu | Second Place | December 2019 |
| Sergio Lima Facchini | A Second Look at Creation | poets.org | First Place | April 2008 |
| Erwin Fernandez | The Nowhere | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | February 2019 |
| Helm Filipowitsch | Yellowknife | Babilu | First Place | June 2013 |
| Helm Filipowitsch | Social Structure | Babilu | Honorable Mention | June 2014 |
| Helm Filipowitsch | Thunderstorm Grass | Babilu | Second Place | September 2015 |
| Helmuth Filipowitsch | Ethics | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | September 2010 |
| Melanie Firth | A Question of Nakedness | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | February 2010 |
| Melanie G. Firth | The Gravity of it Beautiful | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | November 2007 |
| James Fletcher | Chewing the Fat | The Waters | Honorable Mention | January 2022 |
| James Thomas Fletcher | American Night | The Waters | Second Place | May 2021 |
| Dan Flore III | when I had the ice cube trays half filled | Babilu | Third Place | July 2015 |
| Daniel J. Flore III | I just wanna come home dad | Babilu | Third Place | December 2019 |
| Dan Flore | at a foodbank | The Writers Block | Third Place | October 2011 |
| Daniel J. Flore III | A Can of Grandma Figlioto’s Pasta Sauce | Babilu | Honorable Mention | November 2019 |
| Daniel J. Flore III | The Asian man who walks past the balcony | Babilu | Second Place | May 2020 |
| Allen Fogel | Red Romance Dancing | SplashHall Poetry | Honorable Mention | April 2009 |
| Alice Folkart | Hawaiian Chicken (not a recipe) | Blueline | Honorable Mention | February 2008 |
| Alice Folkart | Certain in my Immortality – 1947 | Blueline | First Place | November 2009 |
| Alice Folkart | Queen of the Road | Blueline Poetry | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Jim Fowler | The First Nine Months | Babilu | Third Place | August 2015 |
| Jim Fowler | Marmota Monax Remembered | Babilu | Honorable Mention | May 2016 |
| Jim Fowler | Atlantic Giant | Babilu | Third Place | September 2016 |
| Jim Fowler | Arbeit Macht Frei Inc. | Babilu | Third Place | September 2019 |
| Jim Fowler | Dr. Pachango’s Mango | Babliu | Third Place | December 2020 |
| S. Jason Fraley | The Box Which is Myth | Inside the Writer's Studio | Honorable Mention | March 2007 |
| Marilyn Francis | An A-Z of fruit: A for Apricots | The Write Idea | Third Place | January 2013 |
| Marilyn Francis | A Survivor at Paddington Station | The Write Idea | First Place | December 2013 |
| Marilyn Francis | On The Buses | The Write Idea | Third Place | October 2015 |
| Marilyn Francis | Roasting | The Write Idea | First Place | April 2017 |
| Paul A. Freeman | A Legacy of Sorts | The Write Idea | Second Place | April 2018 |
| Paul A. Freeman | In Limbo | The Write Idea | Second Place | March 2016 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Colours of War | The Write Idea | Third Place | December 2016 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Dr. Seuss’s Guide to Manly Health and Training | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | July 2017 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Ill-used | The Write Idea | Second Place | August 2017 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Taking a Tumble | The Write Idea | Third Place | December 2017 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Shakespearean Soliloquy – Boris Johnson | The Write Idea | Third Place | July 2019 |
| Paul A. Freeman | By Waterloo Station | The Write Idea | First Place | December 2019 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Only the Good Things | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | February 2020 |
| Paul A. Freeman | The Windsock | The Write Idea | Third Place | March 2020 |
| Paul A. Freeman | The Palace Hotel | The Write Idea | Second Place | June 2020 |
| Paul A. Freeman | A Windy Walk | The Write Idea | Third Place | June 2021 |
| Paul A. Freeman | The Miller’s Tale – retold by Dr Seuss | The Write Idea | First Place | September 2021 |
| Paul A. Freeman | Sizing Up | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | November 2021 |
| Chris Freifeld | The Butterfly Effect | Delectable Mnts | Third Place | October 2012 |
| Cherryl E. Garner | 18–Again | SC Writers Workshop | Third Place | April 2008 |
| Cherryl E. Garner | You may misunderstand | criticalpoet.net | Honorable Mention | January 2012 |
| Mitchell Geller | For PMD | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | April 2007 |
| Mitchell Geller | 56 and Sunny | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | June 2007 |
| Mitchell Geller | Barren | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | August 2007 |
| Mitchell Geller | 1980 | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | February 2008 |
| Mitchell Geller | Tiger, Tiger | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | January 2010 |
| Mitchell Geller | Jane | Desert Moon Review | First Place | February 2012 |
| Christopher T. George | Mersey Mersey Me | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | December 2007 |
| Christopher T. George | First Frost | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | January 2009 |
| Christopher T. George | Dad Never Read Novels | FreeWrights Peer Review | Honorable Mention | May 2009 |
| Christopher T. George | The Day the Egrets Came Calling | The Writer's Block | First Place | July 2009 |
| Christopher T. George | Blood on Draft Files, Baltimore, 1967 | FreeWright's Peer Review | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Christopher T. George | Walking Through Chicory | FreeWrights Peer Review | Third Place | September 2012 |
| Christopher T. George | Eating a Bruised Bosc Pear on Armistice Day | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | December 2012 |
| Christopher T. George | Christmas, Connecticut, 1960 | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | January 2013 |
| Christopher T. George | The Legend of the Green Man | FreeWrights Peer Review | First Place | November 2013 |
| Christopher T. George | Baskets of Severed Hands | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | September 2015 |
| Christopher T. George | The Grave Digger of Lesbos | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | April 2016 |
| Christopher T. George | Jackie | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | December 2016 |
| Christopher T. George | To James Bulger, aged 2, murdered February 1993 by two boys aged 10 in Liverpool, England |
Babilu | Second Place | December 2020 |
| Marc-André Germain | At a Mall in Bangkok | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| John Glennon | My next film… | Poets' Graves | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Jude Goodwin | The crying girl | The Writer's Block | Third Place | February 2007 |
| Jude Goodwin | Eureka Springs | The Waters | First Place | January 2010 |
| Jude Goodwin | What | The Waters | First Place | February 2010 |
| Jude Goodwin | Hush | The Waters | First Place | November 2010 |
| Jude Goodwin | The rising song of you | The Waters | Third Place | April 2013 |
| Jude Goodwin | Rodent Ulcer | The Waters | First Place | September 2017 |
| Rachel Green | Ides of March | The Write Idea | Second Place | April 2019 |
| Peter Halpin | Storage Lockers of the Insane | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | April 2015 |
| Peter Halpin | Changing Seasons | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | January 2016 |
| Peter Halpin | Swimming in Twilight | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | May 2019 |
| Peter Halpin | What Have I Done to Thee O Muse | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place (tie) | November 2019 |
| Peter Halpin | Foliose | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | February 2020 |
| Peter Halpin | Escape at the Speed of Transience | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | June 2020 |
| Peter Halpin | The Oilliphéist Story | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | September 2021 |
| Peter Halpin | Glint | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | January 2022 |
| Bernard Hamel | The Big Easy | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | June 2009 |
| Bernard Hamel | Accidental Writer | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | June 2018 |
| Anne Hamlett | Rag and Bone Man | The Write Idea | Third Place | March 2015 |
| Michael Harty | Wig | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | January 2010 |
| Michael Harty | A Quieting | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | August 2010 |
| Michael Harty | Infield Chatter | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | January 2011 |
| Jessica Haynes | String theory (Shrodinger’s coffin) | Moontown Cafe | Second Place | November 2009 |
| Margaret Hemme | Bird-dog, Bird-dog | The Waters | Honorable Mention | September 2009 |
| Margaret Hemme | written in lilac ink | The Waters | Third Place | January 2016 |
| Bernard Henrie | Winterset | The Writer's Block | First Place | April 2007 |
| Bernard Henrie | Sparrow | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | July 2007 |
| Bernard Henrie | Bronx Swans | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | September 2007 |
| Bernard Henrie | Black Man Carrying Alligator Briefcase | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | February 2008 |
| Bernard Henrie | Browse | poets.org | Honorable Mention | July 2008 |
| Bernard Henrie | If Men Wore Lip Paint | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | August 2008 |
| Bernard Henrie | I am Dying Afghanistan | The Writer's Block | Second Place (tie) | July 2009 |
| Bernard Henrie | My Neighbor, Only a Name On a Mailbox | The Waters | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Bernard Henrie | Chichicapa, Mexico | The Writer's Block | First Place | October 2010 |
| Bernard Henrie | Pack Ice | The Waters | Honorable Mention | January 2011 |
| Bernard Henrie | Middle-Aged Man Photographed In Zion | The Writer's Block | Third Place | March 2011 |
| Bernard Henrie | Rain Taxi | PenShells | First Place | November 2012 |
| Bernard Henrie | 1929 | The Waters | Second Place | August 2013 |
| Bernard Henrie | Tireless Hunt for Food at Safeway | Muse Motel | Second Place | October 2013 |
| Bernard Henrie | Lexington and 83rd Street | conjunction | Second Place | February 2014 |
| Bernard Henrie | Ramadan | The Waters | First Place | July 2015 |
| Bernard Henrie | Smiling at a Hotel Bar Window | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | May 2017 |
| Bernard Henrie | Wild Beasts | The Writer's Block | Second Place | September 2017 |
| Bernard Henrie | Wings | The Writer's Block | Second Place | March 2018 |
| Douglas Hill | Fountain | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | May 2008 |
| Tina Hoffman | Tonight the Pendulum Still Swings | Muse Motel | Second Place | June 2011 |
| Tina Hoffman | The Family Bible | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | February 2014 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Migrations | The Writer's Block | Second Place (tie) | August 2009 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Today I Was Her Dad Though Tonight She Asks Me Where The Man Is Who Raked Leaves | The Writer's Block | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Iowa Born | The Writer's Block | Second Place | October 2010 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | I Could Cry But I Don’t | The Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2010 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Death Artist | The Writer's Block | Second Place | January 2011 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Somewhere in Our Past | The Waters | Third Place | June 2012 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | A Trail of Bodies | The Writer's Block | First Place | May 2013 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | in an open field | The Writer's Block | First Place | April 2014 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Midway | The Writer's Block | First Place | October 2014 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | hospice nurse | The Writer's Block | Second Place | December 2014 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Politics | The Writer's Block | Third Place | April 2015 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | to return we must all go into the wind | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | December 2015 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Spring Came Early | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | February 2016 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Saying the Unsayable | The Writer's Block | First Place | April 2016 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | ALS | The Waters | Third Place | January 2017 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Too Late | The Waters | Honorable Mention | November 2018 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Winter Flower | The Waters | First Place | January 2021 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | Hollyhocks | The Writer's Block | Second Place | February 2021 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | free spirit | The Writer's Block | Third Place | July 2021 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | my father | The Writer's Block | Second Place | December 2021 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | VFW | The Writer's Block | Third Place | February 2022 |
| Billy Howell-Sinnard | striking a match in an empty house | The Waters | First Place | July 2022 |
| Millard R. Howington | Jaycee Beach | SC Writers Workshop | Honorable Mention | May 2007 |
| Justin Hyde | only waitress at the truck stop who never uses the cash register | Salty Dreams | Third Place | November 2008 |
| Justin Hyde | you think you’ve seen everything | Salty Dreams | First Place | June 2009 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | The Potato Eaters (1885) | The Writer's Block | First Place | May 2016 |
| ieuan ap hywel | Frosted Garden | The Writer's Block | First Place | June 2017 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | Waiting for a bus at Armarnath Temple | The Wriiter's Block | Third Place | April 2018 |
| Ieuan ap Hywel | Daunted | The Writer's Block | Second Place | March 2019 |
| ieuan ap hywel | Died Last Fall | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | March 2022 |
| Allen Itz | fulton street hustlers | Blueline | Third Place | August 2007 |
| Jan Iwaszkiewicz | Drought | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | April 2007 |
| Alan Jackson | Opportunities Slipped | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | October 2020 |
| R.C. James | The Call | Babilu | Third Place | September 2013 |
| RC James | Vestiges | Babilu | First Place | July 2016 |
| RC James | Passage as Pantoum | Babilu | Second Place | October 2016 |
| RC James | Aja Monet Reads at the Washington Women’s March | Babilu | Honorable Mention | February 2017 |
| RC James | Time of Move | Babilu | Third Place | October 2019 |
| RC James | Last Bus to Reno | Babilu | First Place | October 2020 |
| RC James | Anna and the Scourge | Babilu | First Place (Tie) | October 2021 |
| RC James | Ode to a Hummingbird | Babilu | Honorable Mention | November 2021 |
| RC James | All in Time | Babilu | First Place | May 2022 |
| Ben Johnson | Pantone 1665 C. | The Poets' Graves | Second Place | July 2010 |
| Lois P. Jones | Goose Step | Pen Shells | Second Place | January 2008 |
| Lois P. Jones | Unmarked Grave | Pen Shells | First Place | February 2008 |
| Lois P. Jones | Ouija | Pen Shells | Second Place | April 2010 |
| Lois P. Jones | Ways to Paint a Woman | PenShells | First Place | September 2010 |
| Lois P. Jones | Exile | PenShells | First Place | February 2011 |
| Lois P. Jones | Foxfire | PenShells | First Place | June 2012 |
| Lois P. Jones | Grand Canyon, North Rim | PenShells | Third Place | December 2013 |
| Lois P. Jones | Postcards to Samsara | PenShells | First Place | March 2014 |
| Lois P. Jones | The Tuning Fork’s Addiction | PenShells | Third Place | April 2014 |
| Lois P. Jones | La Bocca della Verita | PenShells | Second Place | October 2014 |
| Lois P. Jones | Outside of the World | PenShells | First Place | December 2016 |
| Lois P. Jones | The Emails Go Unanswered | PenShells | First Place | October 2018 |
| Larry Jordan | Doors Beneath Their Signs | PoetryCircle | Second Place | November 2010 |
| Judy Kaber | A lesson on multiplication | The Waters | First Place | June 2010 |
| Judy Kaber | Dry season | The Waters | First Place | May 2012 |
| Judy Kaber | For the men | The Waters | Second Place | May 2013 |
| Judy Kaber | Sunshine Court | The Waters | First Place | May 2014 |
| Judy Kaber | To a Dead Father | The Waters | Second Place | September 2014 |
| Judy Kaber | What more could I do with wild words? | The Waters | First Place | December 2014 |
| Judy Kaber | Sailor and Young Wife | The Waters | First Place | December 2015 |
| Judy Kaber | Avaricious | The Waters | First Place | December 2020 |
| Susan Katz | One Belongs to Giving | conjunction | First Place | December 2011 |
| Susan Katz | How is Florida treating you? Best, Jim | conjunction | Third Place | April 2012 |
| Sue Kay | That and a Dime Will Get You a Cup of Coffee | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | October 2011 |
| Sue Kay | Drought | Pen Shells | First Place | April 2012 |
| Sue Kay | De Montmartre à Montparnasse | Pen Shells | First Place | June 2015 |
| Mike Keo | Refugee sproutings across the Continental | MiPoesias | First Place | May 2007 |
| James Browning Kepple | put on your suit face | conjunction | Third Place | July 2011 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Bird Painter | About Poetry Forum | Second Place | November 2007 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey! | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | January 2008 |
| Guy Kettelhack | What April in New York is | About Poetry Forum | Second Place | May 2008 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Nothing to Discuss | About Poetry Forum | Second Place (tie) | July 2009 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Debussy’s Music | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | October 2013 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Destiny’s Physics | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | November 2013 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Whatever Glorious Else It Is | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | August 2017 |
| Guy Kettelhack | The Art of Not Being Descartes | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | October 2017 |
| Guy Kettelhack | When I Go Out and Then Come Back | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | January 2018 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Trans-figuration | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | May 2018 |
| Guy Kettelhack | My Epitaph | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | August 2018 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Furiously Overcome by Stars | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | April 2019 |
| Guy Kettelhack | The Elucidating Imbecility | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | January 2020 |
| Guy Kettelhack | Let Me End the Way the Dinosaurs Began | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | September 2018 |
| C. King | Voice-In-Law | Blueline | Honorable Mention | February 2007 |
| Mignon Ariel King | What This Poem Will Do | The Waters | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Mignon Ariel King | We Could Use an American | The Waters | First Place | October 2019 |
| Petra Klein | Dreams: mobile | Salty Dreams | First Place | July 2010 |
| Ellen Kombiyil | Mary Lincoln Communes with the Dead | Blueline | Second Place | April 2007 |
| Ellen Kombiyil | During an Epileptic Fit, Ida Saxton McKinley has a Premonition of her Husband’s Assassination | Blueline | Third Place | July 2007 |
| Ellen Kombiyil | First Born | Blueline | First Place | November 2007 |
| Ellen Kombiyil | How Soft is the Blackness that Cannot Bring Me Joy | Blueline | Honorable Mention | August 2008 |
| Elizabeth Koopman | Scouring Pots While the World Ends | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | December 2018 |
| Elizabeth Koopman | Love | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | September 2020 |
| Elizabeth Koopman | Cancer | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | April 2022 |
| Christopher T. George | For Ann Lovett | Desert Moon Review | First Place | November 2016 |
| Judith Anne Labriola | The Last Bus Home | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | October 2007 |
| Michael LaForge | Natural Alchemy | PenShells | First Place | June 2011 |
| Mike LaForge | Boy, Winter 2008 | criticalpoet.com | Third Place | April 2008 |
| Mike LaForge | Camping | The Waters | Third Place | June 2020 |
| Mike LaForge | Sixth Street Psychic Walk-ins Welcome | The Waters | First Place (tie) | August 2020 |
| Mike LaForge | Other People’s Cats | The Waters | First Place | February 2021 |
| Ryan Laks | [“Dark Nipple of the Figs”] | The Writer's Block | First Place | June 2014 |
| Laurie Byro | Poet | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | May 2015 |
| Ron Lavalette | After Baltimore | The Waters | Third Place | May 2010 |
| Ange Law | Seventeen, Before the First Time | criticalpoet.com | Second Place | July 2008 |
| mignon ledgard | Ice | conjunction | Highly Commended | August 2009 |
| Mignon Ledgard | Giant Cockroaches | The Writer's Block | First Place | December 2010 |
| Mignon Ledgard | House of Ash | conjunction | Honorable Mention | February 2011 |
| F.H. Lee | Hidden Room | The Write Idea | Second Place | October 2018 |
| F.H. Lee | Resolution to Laugh More | The Write Idea | Second Place | February 2019 |
| Brenda Levy-Tate | The Forgetting Water | PenShells | Honorable Mention | January 2011 |
| Eric Linden | Once Upon a Time | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | September 2007 |
| Eric Linden | Northland Solstice | Mosaic Musings | Second Place | December 2007 |
| James Lineberger | awake | Salty Dreams | Honorable Mention | October 2008 |
| Fred Longworth | After Running Over the Neighbor’s Dog | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | June 2010 |
| Fred Longworth | Advice to Self in Guise of Other | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | April 2011 |
| Fred Longworth | Shell Game | PenShells | Honorable Mention | July 2011 |
| Fred Longworth | Stormland | PenShells | Third Place (Tie) | May 2012 |
| Fred Longworth | Zoological | PenShells | First Place | August 2012 |
| Fred Longworth | Eating the Black Dog | The Write Idea | First Place | September 2012 |
| Fred Longworth | Down the Street | The Waters | First Place | January 2013 |
| Fred Longworth | And Maybe Sleep | PenShells | Honorable Mention | March 2013 |
| Fred Longworth | The Atheist’s Demise | Muse Motel | Third Place | May 2013 |
| Fred Longworth | In Mission Trails Wilderness Park | PenShells | Second Place | November 2013 |
| Fred Longworth | To Lisa | PenShells | First Place | February 2017 |
| Fred Longworth | A Note for Perilous Times | PenShells | Third Place | August 2017 |
| Brian Lowry | Father | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | June 2010 |
| Lynze | deliquesce | Salty Dreams | Second Place | March 2009 |
| Bren Lyons | Takazumi | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | January 2010 |
| Mary MacGowan | Morning | The Waters | Honorable Mention | November 2019 |
| Mary MacGowan | My Beautiful Body | The Waters | First Place | February 2020 |
| Mary MacGowan | Houses Houses Houses | The Waters | First Place (tie) | August 2020 |
| Mary MacGowan | Church of the Wheelchair Ladies | The Waters | Second Place | September 2020 |
| Mary MacGowan | In the OR | The Waters | Second Place | October 2020 |
| Mary MacGowan | Help Wanted | The Waters | Honorable Mention | November 2021 |
| Brian J. Mackay | Evidence Hanging on a Rusty Nail | Moontown Cafe | Second Place | May 2009 |
| Sylvia Maclagan | To Patrick | Babilu | First Place | April 2022 |
| Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan | Bereavement | Mosaic Musings | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| Carla Martin-Wood | Bitch | criticalpoet.org | Second Place | March 2008 |
| Marilyn Francis | Corton Beach Holiday Camp, Great Yarmouth | The Write Idea | First Place | July 2017 |
| Dale McLain | Bad Weather | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | June 2007 |
| Susan B. McDonough | Double Vision | Blueline | Third Place | March 2009 |
| Dale McLain | immeasurable | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | August 2007 |
| Dale McLain | brief | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | May 2011 |
| Dale McLain | flight | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | December 2011 |
| Dale McLain | For Leo | PoetryCircle | Honorable Mention | February 2012 |
| Dale McLain | Yard Work | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place (Tie) | April 2012 |
| Dale McLain | for what is given | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | January 2013 |
| Dale McLain | near winter | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | December 2013 |
| Dale McLain | tower | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | March 2014 |
| Dale McLain | California | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2016 |
| Greg McNeill | The Soul’s Active Ingredients | About Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2008 |
| Michael McRandall | Rhythmically Inapposite | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | June 2007 |
| Steve Meador | The Length of Never | SplashHall Poetry | First Place | June 2008 |
| Steve Meador | The Day the Caterpillars Came | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | April 2009 |
| Steve Meador | The Marsh at Dusk | FreeWrights Peer Review | Third Place | May 2009 |
| Steve Meador | The Sweat Lodge, As I Know It | FreeWrights Peer Review | Honorable Mention | June 2009 |
| Steve Meador | Today at the Ranch | FreeWrights Peer Review | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Steve Meador | Front Range | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | May 2012 |
| Steve Meador | Experimenting with Molotov Cocktails | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | November 2012 |
| Meena | As I Slide | The Waters | Third Place | June 2022 |
| Lisa Megraw | All Things Want To Tell The Truth But Can’t | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | January 2015 |
| Lisa Megraw | Memory | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | December 2015 |
| Lisa Megraw | Snowdrops Growing Wild Near the Barn | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | February 2016 |
| Lisa Megraw | Still Life with Oranges (II) | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | November 2016 |
| Dave Mehler | Outwitting Your Angels | criticalpoet.com | Third Place | June 2008 |
| MidnightMoon | A Place So Far From Here | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | June 2016 |
| Dorothy Doyle Mienko | The Little Loss | PenShells | Honorable Mention | April 2017 |
| Dorothy D. Mienko | sink holes and illusions | Salty Dreams | Third Place | September 2008 |
| Midnight Moon | Why You Taught Me Loving in a Way That Feels Like Hate | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | July 2014 |
| Midnight Moon | Elvis | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | April 2016 |
| Midnight Moon | The Abandoned Woman | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | December 2017 |
| Midnight Moon | You Can Call Me a Tough Cookie, But It Really Doesn’t Matter | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | October 2018 |
| Midnight Moon | To the Woman with the Likely Smile | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2019 |
| Midnight Moon | Hitchhiking Through the Wilderness | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | January 2021 |
| Midnight Moon | The Dark Land | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | September 2021 |
| Midnight Moon | Chicago | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | January 2022 |
| Midnight Moon | Secrets | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | June 2022 |
| Richard Moorhead | Lot | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | March 2010 |
| Richard Moorhead | Scalpel | Wild Poetry Forum | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Richard Moorhead | Five Hundred Yards from Home | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | May 2020 |
| Brenda Morisse | Aftertaste | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | July 2008 |
| Brenda Morisse | this poem is not about the charity of the dead, | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place (Tie) | March 2012 |
| Brenda Morisse | to the poem with glue on its feet and a patch over its eye | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | November 2015 |
| Brenda Morisse | gutterball | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2018 |
| Brenda Morisse | Either February or March | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | June 2018 |
| Matt Moseman | (untitled) | conjunction | Third Place (tie) | September 2009 |
| Jonathan Muggleston | on phil jackson’s tenth championship | The Town | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| Esther Murer | Glosa: Maps impossible to refold | The Waters | Second Place | October 2015 |
| Esther Greenleaf Murer | Fall Day in the Park | poets.org | Honorable Mention | August 2007 |
| Shawn Nacona | The House on Limestone Street | The Waters | Second Place | August 2014 |
| Shawn Nacona | Exodus | Babilu | Honorable Mention | September 2014 |
| Sachi Nag | Talking Terror | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | January 2009 |
| Sachi Nag | The Rebuttal | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| Eira Needham | Seasoned with Love | PenShells | First Place | August 2017 |
| Cynthia Neely | Comfort | The Waters | Honorable Mention | March 2010 |
| Cynthia Neely | Run | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | December 2010 |
| Cynthia Neely | Cocooned | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | March 2012 |
| Nochipa | A Woman of Summer | Pen Shells | Second Place | October 2007 |
| Alex Nodopaka | The Portrait of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin | Muse Motel | First Place | July 2013 |
| Alex Nodopaka | About George and his Feeding a Street Rat | PenShells | Third Place | January 2014 |
| Alexandre Nodopaka | The absence of spaces between words | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | May 2009 |
| Pam O'Shaughnessy | tasting the blade | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | August 2009 |
| T. Obatala | God War | About Poetry Forum | Third Place | October 2010 |
| Terry Ofner | Mama Carving | The Waters | First Place | January 2015 |
| Terry Ofner | Learning to See | The Waters | Second Place | March 2015 |
| Terry Ofner | Ocean | The Waters | Third Place | May 2016 |
| Terry Ofner | Nighthawks | The Waters | Second Place | September 2016 |
| Terry Ofner | In The Pavilion | The Waters | Honorable Mention | October 2016 |
| Terry Ofner | The World Is Moist in the Morning | The Waters | First Place | August 2018 |
| Terry Ofner | Sycamore Dreams | The Waters | Second Place | April 2021 |
| Terry Ofner | My mother | The Waters | Honorable Mention | December 2021 |
| Terry Ofner | At the Cancer Center | The Waters | Second Place | March 2022 |
| Sergio Ortiz | Illegal #2 | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place (tie) | September 2009 |
| Sergio Ortiz | Anger | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | April 2014 |
| Sergio Ortiz | Riding Out the Night | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | June 2014 |
| Sergio Ortiz | It’s a Wonderful Life Brandon | The Waters | Second Place | March 2017 |
| Mandy Pannett | Without salt | The Write Idea | Third Place | October 2009 |
| Mandy Pannett | A New Cartography | The Write Idea | Second Place | December 2010 |
| Mandy Pannett | Best after frost | The Write Idea | First Place | March 2011 |
| Steve Parker | untitled | The Critical Poet | Third Place | January 2007 |
| Steve Parker | Seiren Song | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | August 2008 |
| Steve Parker | nettles riff nettles the big tree | criticalpoet.org | Second Place | March 2010 |
| Steve Parker | history of the kite riff | criticalpoet.org | Second Place (tie) | June 2010 |
| Dale Patterson | Altoona | conjunction | First Place | March 2013 |
| Dale Patterson | The Improbabilities of Flight | PenShells | Second Place | February 2015 |
| Dale Patterson | Lights Near Adler Planetarium | The Waters | Second Place | July 2015 |
| Dale Patterson | Oklahoma | The Writer's Block | Second Place | May 2018 |
| Kiwanda Paul | a note to ms clifton | PoetryCircle | Honorable Mention | May 2012 |
| Penguin | Wards | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | September 2013 |
| David Phillips | Bo-Peep Tunnel | criticalpoet.org | Honorable Mention | March 2008 |
| Andrew Pike | the demolition kid | SplashHall Poetry | Honorable Mention | February 2007 |
| Milner Place | the necromancer | PoetryCircle | Third Place | February 2011 |
| Laura Polley | Beached | Desert Moon Review | First Place | September 2007 |
| Christine Potter | Hibakusha | The Waters | First Place | May 2015 |
| Christine Potter | Looking at Manhattan from the Tappan Zee Bridge | The Waters | Second Place | May 2016 |
| Christine Potter | Good Friday, St. Peter’s Anglican, The East Bronx | The Waters | Third Place | June 2019 |
| Christine Potter | Ain’t Got Time To Die | The Waters | Honorable Mention | December 2019 |
| Christine Potter | Sparrows, Starlings | The Waters | First Place | May 2021 |
| Christine Potter | My Sister And I Decide To Surreptitiously Scatter Our Mother’s Ashes In The Hudson River | The Waters | First Place | December 2021 |
| Christine Potter | Grand Central Station | The Waters | First Place | February 2022 |
| Christine Potter | Good Omens | The Waters | Second Place | August 2022 |
| Christine Potter | Of Course | The Waters | First Place | September 2014 |
| Elodie Pritchartt | Blues and green | The Town | Highly Commended | May 2010 |
| Doug Pugh | raven | The Write Idea | Second Place (tie) | August 2020 |
| Douglas Pugh | The Gray Wolf | The Write Idea | Second Place | October 2012 |
| Siva Ramanathan | Not a Natural Disaster | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | March 2014 |
| Siva Ramanathan | Green Goddess | The Writer's Block | Second Place | July 2014 |
| Siva Ramanathan | For When You Wake | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | March 2016 |
| Siva Ramanathan | Grandmother’s Avvakai | The Writer's Block | Third Place | October 2016 |
| Siva Ramanathan | Sister Valeria | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | June 2018 |
| Siva Ramanathan | The Big House At Mambalam | The Writer's Block | Second Place (tie) | November 2019 |
| Siva Ramanathan | Back Stage | The Writer's Block | Second Place | February 2022 |
| Ray | The Outside of Enough | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | January 2017 |
| Ray | Safety Net | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | May 2022 |
| Stevie Jean Reed | Flint Michigan | Blueline | Honorable Mention | January 2007 |
| Sally Arango Renata | Blas Rivas | SC Writers Workshop | Honorable Mention | April 2007 |
| Sally Arango Renata | First Date | SC Writers Workshop | Honorable Mention | May 2007 |
| Sally Arango Renata | Marigolds | SC Writers Workshop | Honorable Mention | May 2008 |
| Melissa Resch | An Endangered Species | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | November 2008 |
| Eric Rhohenstein | on an autumn evening, i | The Critical Poet | First Place | February 2007 |
| Eric Rhohenstein | New Neighbors | criticalpoet.org | First Place | January 2009 |
| Eric Rhohenstein | - | criticalpoet.org | Third Place | February 2009 |
| Derek Richard | my name is river | Wild Poetry Forum | Highly Commended | August 2009 |
| John Riley | No One Here Is Dreaming | The Waters | First Place | May 2017 |
| John Riley | Hallways | The Waters | Second Place | June 2017 |
| John Riley | The Day of a Girl | The Waters | First Place | October 2017 |
| John Riley | Monotony | The Waters | Second Place | September 2018 |
| John Riley | The Purposes of Alone | The Waters | First Place | June 2022 |
| Laura Ring | Everything will be permitted, nothing will be desired | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | March 2010 |
| Laura Ring | This is How Death Comes | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | March 2017 |
| Laura Ring | Let No Man | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | May 2017 |
| Nanette Rayman River | Bees in Thin Hours | The Critical Poet | Honorable Mention | February 2007 |
| Catherine Rogers | Spirit Catcher | poets.org | Honorable Mention | June 2008 |
| Catherine Rogers | Talk Like a Pirate Day* | poets.org | Honorable Mention | October 2008 |
| Dave Rowley | Omen | Inside the Writer's Studio | Second Place | March 2007 |
| Dave Rowley | In a City Made of Seaweed | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | May 2007 |
| Dave Rowley | Love Through a Plate Glass Window | poets.org | Honorable Mention | March 2008 |
| Runatyr | The Green Mirror | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | September 2020 |
| Stuart Ryder | ‘Appy ‘Our | The Poets' Graves | Honorable Mention | November 2009 |
| Carol Saba | Coming to My Senses One Breath at a Time | Babilu | Honorable Mention | December 2021 |
| Zeke E. Sanchez | The Cantu Series | Delectable Mnts | Third Place | January 2012 |
| Don Schaeffer | Remembering A City I Never Knew | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | March 2008 |
| Don Schaeffer | Post Apocalypse in Polo Park | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | January 2010 |
| Don Schaeffer | My Trip: The Last Siona Dream | Babilu | Honorable Mention | June 2018 |
| Don Schaeffer | June 6 | Babilu | Second Place | July 2019 |
| Don Schaeffer | An Ancient Temple on a Leaf | The Waters | Third Place | October 2020 |
| Don Schaeffer & Alex Nodopaka | Chauvet Cave | PenShells | Honorable Mention | February 2012 |
| Christine J. Schiff | Tree Planting | About Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | December 2009 |
| Walter Schwim | Forbidden Lullaby | Mosaic Musings | Second Place | October 2009 |
| Walter Schwim | Flash in the Pan | Mosaic Musings | Third Place | August 2013 |
| S. Shademan | Aftermath | poets.org | Second Place | December 2008 |
| Henry Shifrin | St. Louis Jim | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | September 2008 |
| Henry Shifrin | Imagination of the Deflated Balloon | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | October 2008 |
| Henry Shifrin | Caring For Your Gimp | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | April 2010 |
| Henry L. Shifrin | An almost kiss | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | October 2012 |
| M.E. Silverman | The Season of Science | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | March 2008 |
| Sarah Sloat | Ghazal of the Honed Knife | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | September 2007 |
| Sarah Sloat | On Waking I Think of Winter | Desert Moon Review | Third Place (tie) | September 2009 |
| Sarah J. Sloat | Red Cap | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | January 2008 |
| Sarah J. Sloat | Sunday with Labrador | The Waters | First Place | May 2008 |
| Sarah J. Sloat | Clothespin | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | November 2009 |
| E. Russell Smith | Motown Layover | The Write Idea | First Place | April 2011 |
| E. Russell Smith | Night Music | The Write Idea | Third Place | July 2012 |
| E. Russell Smith | Archimedes Palimpsest | The Write Idea | Second Place | April 2014 |
| E. Russell Smith | Dancing at Midnight | The Write Idea | Third Place | April 2017 |
| Russ Smith | A Docent’s Guide to the Collection | Babilu | Second Place | July 2016 |
| Russel Smith | Eden in Winter | The Write Idea | First Place | March 2010 |
| William Dixon Smith | yeah man snap snap like that | Tin Roof Alley Poets | Honorable Mention | June 2010 |
| Rich Stewart | Indian Grass | The Town | Honorable Mention | September 2007 |
| Richard Stillman | Offertory Red | The Poets' Graves | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| B.A. Stites | Death left you a voicemail | conjunction | Second Place | February 2012 |
| Alex Stolis | Her obituary picture will look nothing like her | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | May 2009 |
| Alex Stolis | true romance in black and white | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | August 2009 |
| Rick Storey | On a Line from the Collection “November” by Sean O’Brien | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | August 2012 |
| Shawn Nacona Stroud | After AIDS | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | April 2009 |
| Shawn Nacona Stroud | Vanishing | Desert Moon Review | First Place | November 2014 |
| Shawn Nacona Stroud | 1432 South Limestone Street | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | August 2016 |
| Shawn Nacona Stroud | Mosquito Lagoon | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | October 2016 |
| Shawn Nacona Stroud | Lot’s Daughters | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | May 2017 |
| S. Thomas Summers | A Fall from Grace | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | June 2008 |
| S. Thomas Summers | Saturday | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | September 2008 |
| S. Thomas Summers | Oils of Soft Fingers | The Writer's Block | Highly Commended | August 2009 |
| Judy Swann | We Burned Incense | The Waters | First Place | September 2009 |
| Judy Swann | Snow | The Waters | Second Place | January 2010 |
| Judy Swann | O be Joyful | The Waters | Honorable Mention | February 2010 |
| Ray Sweatman | Mondegreen | Salty Dreams | First Place | February 2009 |
| Emily Violet Swithins | Russian Crucifixes | The Writer's Block | First Place | November 2008 |
| Mike Talbert | Listening to a teen poetry slam on NPR | The Town | Third Place | June 2011 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Show but Never Tell | Pen Shells | Third Place | March 2007 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Ruth in Ward 3A Imagines Herself as a Tree | Pen Shells | First Place | December 2007 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Carol for the Brokenhearted | criticalpoet.org | First Place | March 2008 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Spring Dance | criticalpoet.com | Second Place | April 2008 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Tsumani Prelude | Pen Shells | First Place | August 2008 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Momento Mori | Pen Shells | Third Place | December 2008 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | I, Raptor | Pen Shells | First Place | March 2009 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | In the Beginning | PenShells | Second Place | October 2011 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Hurricane Weather | PenShells | Second Place | November 2011 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Matryoshka | PenShells | Second Place (tie) | January 2012 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | The Battle of Lac Baptiste | PenShells | Second Place | August 2012 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Requiescat in Pace | PenShells | First Place | April 2013 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Sunday Mourning | PenShells | First Place | October 2013 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Madonna of the Snows | PenShells | Honorable Mention | January 2014 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Why He Married A Younger Woman | PenShells | First Place | March 2015 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Clutter | PenShells | First Place | October 2015 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | November’s Window | PenShells | Third Place | December 2015 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | To a Fox in a Leg-hold Trap | PenShells | First Place | January 2016 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Close-Hauled | PenShells | First Place | June 2016 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Corona Borealis | PenShells | Third Place | November 2016 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Analemma | PenShells | First Place | January 2017 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Caught In The Light Bucket | PenShells | Third Place | June 2017 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Astrophotographer | PenShells | Third Place | September 2018 |
| Brenda Levy Tate | Sleep Walker | PenShells | Second Place | January 2019 |
| Terreson | A Bedtime Story | Delectable Mnts | First Place | January 2012 |
| Judy Thompson | Island | The Town | Highly Commended | August 2009 |
| Rebecca Van Camp | Three Strands of Barb | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | September 2014 |
| Christina Vanthul | Mother Banana | Babilu | First Place (Tie) | October 2021 |
| Sivakami Velliangiri | Kodaikanal | The Writer's Block | Second Place | July 2012 |
| Sivakami Velliangiri | The Two Windows of My Room | The Waters | Third Place | September 2017 |
| Sivakami Velliangiri | What Children See | The Waters | First Place | March 2020 |
| Kathleen Vibbert | Takes your breath | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | March 2007 |
| Kathleen Vibbert | Millstone | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | October 2007 |
| Kathleen Vibbert | Corn Shy | Pen Shells | Honorable Mention | March 2008 |
| Kathleen Vibbert | Stephanie | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | July 2009 |
| Kay Vibbert | Daily Thought | FreeWrights Peer Review | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Michael Virga | tetelestai | The Writer's Block | Highly Commended | April 2010 |
| Michael Virga | I don’t | Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2012 |
| Michael Virga | disrobing the ghost | The Writer's Block | Third Place | November 2014 |
| Michael Virga | celebrating the 45th anniversary of Father’s Day | The Writer's Block | Honorable Mention | July 2017 |
| Michael Virga | The Heart is not earthbound | The Writer's Block | Second Place | March 2021 |
| DJ Vorreyer | Exchange | The Town | Honorable Mention | October 2007 |
| Larina Warnock | I See God Standing in Stout Grove | poets.org | Second Place | August 2007 |
| Tom Watters | Sheer | Moontown Cafe | Third Place | September 2008 |
| Gail Moran Wawrzyniack | Badlands | The Write Idea | Second Place | January 2014 |
| Julene T. Weaver | Istanbul Secrets | Babilu | Second Place | June 2015 |
| Allen Weber | Melody | FreeWrights Peer Review | Third Place | November 2011 |
| Allen Weber | Domestic | FreeWrights Peer Review | Third Place | February 2012 |
| Allen Weber | Mood Indigo | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | March 2012 |
| Allen Weber | Parable | conjunction | Second Place | February 2013 |
| Allen Weber | Folk Remedy | FreeWrights Peer Review | Second Place | June 2013 |
| Allen M. Weber | Stone Soup | Desert Moon Review | Honorable Mention | January 2007 |
| Allen M. Weber | The Bottle Tree | Desert Moon Review | First Place | January 2008 |
| Allen M. Weber | Via! | Desert Moon Review | Third Place | May 2008 |
| Allen M. Weber | Angling | FreeWrights Peer Review | Honorable Mention | June 2009 |
| Allen M. Weber | Acquired Tastes | FreeWrights Peer Review | Honorable Mention | September 2009 |
| Allen M. Weber | The Borrow Pit | Muse Motel | Third Place | January 2011 |
| Allen M. Weber | Solstice | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | August 2011 |
| Allen M. Weber | Boys | FreeWrights Peer Review | First Place | September 2011 |
| Allen M. Weber | Hardwood Autumn | Muse Motel | Second Place (tie) | January 2012 |
| Allen M. Weber | Still Waltzing with You | Desert Moon Review | Second Place | July 2017 |
| Allen M. Weber | consider crossing | The Waters | First Place | January 2020 |
| Allen M. Weber | Chickadee | The Waters | Second Place | February 2020 |
| Lise Whidden | A Woman’s Fetish | criticalpoet.org | Second Place | May 2010 |
| Teresa White | Ungodly Apartment Building | Wild Poetry Forum | Honorable Mention | October 2007 |
| Teresa White | A Scarecrow Speaks to its Maker | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | July 2011 |
| Teresa White | Gretel Grows Up | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | February 2013 |
| Teresa White | Describing Blue to My Colorblind Friend | Wild Poetry Forum | Third Place | June 2013 |
| Teresa White | A Brief History of Blood | Wild Poetry Forum | First Place | October 2016 |
| Catherine Whiteley | The mail comes | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | September 2012 |
| Jane Wilcken | No Cover | Wild Poetry Forum | Second Place | June 2012 |
| John Wilks | The Unfinished Ice Cream | The Write Idea | Second Place | September 2011 |
| John Wilks | All Love Is Outlaw | The Write Idea | Third Place (Tie) | March 2012 |
| John Wilks | First Kiss at Fifty | The Write Idea | Honorable Mention | April 2012 |
| John Wilks | The England I love | The Write Idea | Third Place | July 2013 |
| John Wilks | The Grail Is Both A Cauldron And A Spear | The Write Idea | First Place | August 2013 |
| John Wilks | Aschenputtel And Her Sisters | The Write Idea | First Place | August 2015 |
| John Wilks | (how to lose at) Kimberly’s Game | The Write Idea | First Place | April 2018 |
| John Wilks | Caroline Danced | The Write Idea | Second Place | March 2020 |
| J.J. Williamson | Dove Cottage | PenShells | February 2016 | |
| J.J. Williamson | Homeless | Babilu | Third Place | January 2018 |
| JJ Williamson | Birds 2 | Babilu | Third Place | November 2018 |
| JJ Wiliamson | Rapture | Babilu | First Place | November 2019 |
| John J. Williamson | The Price of Wool | PenShells | Second Place | April 2016 |
| John J. Williamson | Watching Dad | PenShells | Honorable Mention | May 2016 |
| John J. Williamson | The Deaths of Saint Winefride | PenShells | Third Place | July 2016 |
| John J. Williamson | When the Starfish Gathered | PenShells | Second Place | August 2016 |
| John J. Williamson | Elegy for Michael | PenShells | Honorable Mention | February 2017 |
| John J. Williamson | Negotiatin’ Wi Demons (For wee Rabbie Burns) | PenShells | Third Place | February 2018 |
| Kendall Witherspoon | The One | The Waters | Third Place | February 2013 |
| Kendall Witherspoon | The Accident | The Waters | Third Place | May 2015 |
| Kendall Witherspoon | To the Son I Never Had | The Waters | Honorable Mention | August 2015 |
| Kendall Witherspoon | Seven Years in Laredo | The Waters | Honorable Mention | May 2017 |
| Kendall Witherspoon | Fragile | The Waters | Second Place | June 2019 |
| Witt Wittman | His Jacket | SplashHall Poetry | First Place | July 2007 |
| Witt Wittman | Searching | SplashHall Poetry | Third Place | December 2009 |
| Anna Yin | My Father’s Family Tree | Pen Shells | Second Place | November 2008 |
| Anna Yin | Rain | Pen Shells | First Place | October 2009 |
| Thane Zander | Taste Buds of Children and Mock Adults | Blueline | Honorable Mention | January 2009 |
| Jim Zola | The Lessons | The Waters | Second Place | December 2011 |
| Jim Zola | In the Night Still Dark | The Waters | Honorable Mention | January 2012 |
| Jim Zola | The Roofer Stays Up | The Waters | Second Place (Tie) | April 2012 |
| Jim Zola | We Give Back What We Cannot Keep | The Waters | Third Place | November 2013 |
| Jim Zola | Box of Stars | The Waters | First Place | February 2014 |
| Jim Zola | In Your Absence | The Waters | Honorable Mention | November 2015 |
| Jim Zola | Blade | The Waters | Second Place | June 2016 |
| Jim Zola | What if the Wages of Dying is Love | The Waters | First Place | March 2021 |
| Jim Zola | What If I Wasn’t Born as Much as I Fell Out | The Waters | First Place | April 2021 |
| Jim Zola | Now Hear the Word of the Lord | The Waters | Second Place | November 2021 |