Winner! HEART Poetry Award, 2024

PIANO
by
Eric Machan Howd
Ithaca, New York

Honorable Mentions & Publication HEART 19

Kathie Collins ~ E. Bend, NC
Woman of a Certain Age
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Ion Corcos ~ Australia
A Church by the Sea
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Shutta Crum ~ Ann Arbor, MI
In the First Year of Not You
&
Of Covenants
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Carol Despeaux Fawcett ~ Poulsbo, WA
Significant Chance of Snow
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Laurice Gilbert ~ New Zealand
And Now my Children Have Left Home
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Kimberly Lewis ~ Hilliard, FL
A Blue Shadow
&
Portal to the Past
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Victoria Melekian ~ Carlsbad, CA
Things I’ve Lost, Page Thirty-Two
&
Ode to Senior Citzenry
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Ben Onachilla ~ Pisgah Forest, NC
Winter Memory
&
May
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Lesley Sherwood ~ France
Ambushed by Grief
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53 poets entered 159 poems
All who entered will receive copy of HEART 19
Publication expected by end of 2024
Thanks for your interest and participation!
Elizabeth Thomas, Judge
Connie Lakey Martin, Editor
HEART
Nostalgia Press
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"I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence. We need to listen to God because it's not what we say, but what He says to us and through us that matters." ~Mother Teresa
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