2005 Porad Award Winners

Christopher Herold, Judge

Unknown, Contest Coordinator

Sponsored by the Washington Poets Association

Judge’s Comments

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First Prize ($100)

        precipice

        the ascending cry

        of an osprey

                Ernest J. Berry

                Picton, New Zealand

Second Prize ($75)

        a banner flaps

            in the autumn wind...

               Everything Must Go!

                Scott Mason

                Chappaqua, New York

Third Prize ($50)

        winter fog

        everything familiar

        unfamiliar

                an’ya

                Crescent, Oregon

Honorable Mentions

        the sound of breaking waves

        on a moonless night

        —distant friend

                Tracy Koretsky

                Berkeley, California

        slow bend in the river

        he comes around

        to my point of view

                Francine Banwarth

                Dubuque, Iowa

        hot night the length of a siren

                Ernest J. Berry

                Picton, New Zealand

                 dislodged

        from its tangle of branches

                beaver moon

                Scott Mason

                Chappaqua, New York