Georgia Poetry Society 2010 Contest Award Winners

Langston Hughes Award
First Place: B Drew Collier, "Cardinal Point"
Second Place: Larry Hand, "The Greatest Gift"
Third Place: Pat Adams, "Great Oak"
Honorable Mention: Robert Lynn, "I Am Not Free"

Judge: Tammy Brewer

Twenty-seven entries


Founders Award
First Place: Ron Self, "Form a Great Line"
Second Place: Larry Hand, "Gray Water"
Third Place: Karen Burnette Garner, "Manifest Destiny-The Cherokee Lament"
Honorable Mention: Gay Williford, "Gift of Snow"

Judge: Lynn Alexander

Forty-nine entries


Byron Herbert Reece Award
First Place: Lynn Farmer, "Reaching Past"
Second Place: Karen Burnette Garner, "Lowcountry Morning"
Third Place: Larry Hand, "The Night Visitor"
Honorable Mention: Lynn Farmer, "Charleston in May"

Judge: John Bush

Forty-one entries


Educators Award
First Place: B Drew Collier, "The Architect’s Son"
Second Place: Ann Gillespie, "Du Matin (In the Morning)"
Third Place: Robert Lynn, "Dancing Bloom"
Honorable Mention: Mildred White Greear, "Dear My Student"

Judge: Carlos Valdes

Thirty entries


Mnemosyne Award
First Place: Jill Jennings, "Disconnect"
Second Place: James Milner, "In a Sea"
Third Place: DuAnne Royall Kaiser, "Pond Lament"
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Howells, "Beach Glass on Lake Michigan"
Honorable Mention: T.L. Hensel, "Red"

Judge: Tom Lombardo

Fifty-one entries


Edgar Bowers Award
First Place: Larry Hand, "Ode to Stone Warriors"
Second Place: Linda K. Moore, "There Once Was a Town"
Third Place: Lynn Veach Sadler, "Apse to Lapse" (French Sonnet)
Honorable Mention: Gay Williford, "Dethroned"
Honorable Mention: Larry Hand, "Pandora’s Curiosity"

Judge: Sue Brannan Walker

Thirty-five entries


Anderson Social Poetry
Winner: Hilary King, "An Appreciation of Lesser Plastics and Smaller Metals"

Judge: Dana Wildsmith

Forty-eight entries


Lou Jones
Contest Chairperson