poetry festivalDr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 2023
First Place
Re-education Centre by Dean Gessie
Second Place
Cape St. Francis by Richard A. Brait
Third Place
Daddy’s Hands by Melanie Flores
Eight Honourable Mentions
- A MARKED WOMAN by Ronnie R. Brown
- Valldemossa by Roberta McGill
- Under the Same Roof (for R) by Donna Langevin
- Freudian Hopscotch by Gregory Skala
- Hanging In/On/Out (a senryu series) by Beth Skala
- Teenagers on Mushrooms and a Beat-Up Ford: A Prairie Pantoum by Charlotte Blair
- “gastropod” by Dean Gessie
- A Poem to Hang Your Shirt On by Philip Youden
Nine Judge’s Choice Awards
- Shoe Cove by Richard A. Brait
- Georgian Bay by Richard A. Brait
- Two Cents by Mike Madill
- Premeditated by Marie Sinclair
- enveloped by Nancy Daoust
- In Which Margaret Atwood Consults John Dee on Poetry and the Obsolescence of Language: 1 by Grant Wilkins
- Toast, snow by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
- Fallow by Brenda Gunn
- Unmuted by Brenda Gunn