01/24/06

Below are the results of the GPS 2005 contests from most to least-recent.  Prize-winning poems will be published in the 2005 Reach of Song, anticipated for publication in spring 2006.

Edgar Bowers Prize

Judge:  Beth Gylys

          First Prize:        Undelivered, Mother's Day by Judith Pacht (Los Angeles, CA)

          Second Prize:  Transit by Patricia Brodie (Concord, MA)

          Third Prize:       Sun of Youth Lives On by Emery Campbell (Lawrenceville, GA)

           HM:                   Lazarus by Robert Lynn (Duluth, GA)

           HM:                   All the Lost Treasures by Catherine Moran (Little Rock, AR)

Edwin Davin Vickers Competition

Judge:  Tania Rochelle

          First Prize:        "I come from..." by Marissa McNamara (Atlanta, GA)

          Second Prize:  Windborne by Michael D. Eaton (Austin, TX)

          Third Prize:       February 1943 by Christa Pandey (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Byron Herbert Reece Competition

Judge: 

          First Prize:        The Cutting Edge of Love by Christa Pandey (Tuscaloosa, AL)

          Second Prize:  The Homeric Heart by Marissa McNamara (Atlanta, GA)

          Third Prize:       The Last Pretend by Clela Dyess Reed (Athens, GA)

Langston Hughes Competiton

Judge:  Dr. Beverly Head, D.A.

          First Prize:        Hydrangea Reality by Anderson Frazer (Columbus, GA)

          Second Prize:  Lift Every Voice by Ronald W. Self (Columbus, GA) 

          Third Prize:      The 'Colored' Dipper by Larry Hand (Alpharetta, GA)

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