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WCPA Annual Poetry Contest






Contest Judge: Dara Wier
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2008

Good luck to all the contest entrants!
Winners will be posted in May.

The winners' reading is scheduled
for September 24.

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2008 COLLEGE POETRY COMPETITION FINALISTS

















ALLAN-MICHAEL BROWN, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; SANDY WADE, Quinsigamond Community College; LAURA CRAWFORD, Fitchburg State College; ELIZABETH HEATH, Mount Wachusett Community College; LYNSEY SICKSCH, Assumption College; GREGORY MINOGUE, Holy Cross College; MELANIE WILCOX, Worcester State College; DAVID CORLISS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

First Place Winner, Manuscript:  David Corliss
Honorable Mention: Lynsey Sicksch, Gregory Minogue

First Place Winner, Performance: Lynsey Sicksch
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Heath, Sandy Wade

Judged by poets Wayne-Daniel Berard, professor of English at Nichols College,
Lea C. Deschenes, performer in national and global poetry slam competitions,
Rodger Martin, editor of The Worcester Review, and Eve Rifkah, editor of Diner.

Saturday, May 10 - 2:00pm

Lloyd Schwartz, Editor of the new Library of America edition of
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters



Join the reading! If you would like to participate in the program
by reading a favorite Elizabeth Bishop poem, please contact us.

Join us at the 12Crane arts complex for a reading & book signing.
12 Crane Street, Southbridge, MA
Coming Up:

May 21 - Open Reading at Goddard House
      Theme: Mirror, Mirror

June 16 - Bloomsday 2008

July 29 - Traveling Poetry Project
      Celebrates Stanley Kunitz