Poetry Society of South Carolina
Spring 2010 Contest Winners
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Michael Lucas, “Old Tabby”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Tim Harkins, “Horizons”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Marilyn R. Mumford, “true story (philadelphia 1994)”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “The Invisible Rope Trick”
The Forum Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Interruption”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Brian Slusher, “Leavings”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Jules Riley, “Winter Garden”
The Peter Pan Prize
Sybil B. Collins, “Where Tigers Roam”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Thomas L. Johnson, “On Deciding Whether or Not to Purchase a Scenic Print of Table Rock Reflected in a Lake at Sunset”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Janet Lombard, “Closing Night”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Doaty Flanigan, “Anger Fulfilled”
The Skylark Prize
Victoria Sharpe, “Letter to Gloria”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Nick Bozanic, “Isaac”
The Footlight Players Prize
Elizabeth Bernardin, “Story”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Ellen E. Hyatt, “Genesis”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Kit Loney, “Influence of Two Moons”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Aly Goodwin, “What Happened on Flat Creek in Montreat, North Carolina, When I Was 14, That Changed My Life”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Susan Finch Stevens, “Marsh Impasto”
The Pegasus Prize
Frances Pearce, “Postcard from the King Tut Exhibition, Munich, 1980”
The Post and Courier Prize
Libby Swope Wiersema, “Haunting Pawley’s Island”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Being Kissed By A Poet”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Susan Finch Stevens, “Chickadee”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Tim Harkins, “Crows Finally Find Me in Spartanburg”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Hot Market”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Eye of the Skull”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Brian Slusher, “Dead, I Take-up Stargazing”
The Sandy Eubank Memorial Prize
Tim Harkins, “Omaha”
The Forum Prize
Kit Loney, “Sooner Or Later They Ask Me My Age”
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The Humorous Verse Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “High On The Hog”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Scott Owens, “Adding Up the Day”
The Peter Pan Prize
Elsie T. Holcombe, “What If the World was Upside Down?”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
James B. Hudson, “Monte Sano At Wheeler”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “The Mah Jongg Ladies Attend the Ballet”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Thomas L. Johnson, “The Sign of the Mona Lisa Motel,
Fallen at Camden”
The Skylark Prize
Noah Roy Fram, “Memories”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Ancient Greek Wisdom”
The Footlight Players Prize
Mary Wideman Carson, “Returning to the New World”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Terri McCord, “Found Jesus”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Bryan Penberthy, “Musetta's Waltz & Electric Guitar”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Kate Hanzalik, “The Thickening”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Libby Bernardin, “What You Gave Me”
The Pegasus Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Abstract Painting”
The Post and Courier Prize
Linda Annas Ferguson, “Rituals”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Brian Slusher, “Wife Not Comfortable with the Idea of Nudist Resort”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Linda Lee Harper, “Nameless”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Starkey Flythe, Jr., “The House”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “The Tear of Things”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Before We Leave”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Patricia Tanner Candal, “Calling Out the Memories”
The Forum Prize
Aly Goodwin, “The Moon of Ripe Blackberries”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “I Should Have”
The Gertrude Munzenmaier Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “In the Garden”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “A Rainbow in the Making”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Donald L. Geddes, “Ordnance”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, "The Alchemist"
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Ann Herlong-Bodman, “History 101”
The Skylark Prize
Cameron Blake Rotton, “Apocalypse”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Helen C. Brandenburg, “After the Storm”
The Footlight Players Prize
Tim Harkins, “Dying for a Drink”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Jerri Chaplin, “Passover, Junior Year”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Libby Bernardin, “First Snow”
The Carrie Allen McCray Prize
Kit Loney, “Madame Butterfly and the Down Syndrome Kid”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Mary Hutchins Harris, “Waiting to Be Served”
The Pegasus Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “Silent Film Prayer”
The Post and Courier Prize
Terri McCord, “Grainy”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Marguerite Scott, “Personal Effects”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Brian Slusher, “No Children”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Aly Goodwin, “In the Moon of Yellow Fever,
Campobello, South Carolina, 1916”
The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Debra Daniel, “His Daughter Who Goes to College in Charleston”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Libby Bernardin, “On Isle of Palms in the Month of No Moon”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Jules Riley, “Waist Deep in Winter Water”
The Forum Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Old Man”
The Humorous Verse Prize
Lee Robinson, “Advice We Give Our Children”
The Peter Pan Prize
Mary Wideman Carson, “Inside Out”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Charleston Docks, Posed for Watercolor”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, "Maybe Once Upon a Time?"
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Other Side of Town”
The Skylark Prize
Victoria Rose Witte, “Love, Cards, in the Atlantic”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Kit Loney, “Unsmashing the Goblet”
The Footlight Players Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Meeting Cortez”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Michael Hugh Lythgoe, “Adoration of the Magi”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “I Watch the Final Wednesday
of November”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Aly Goodwin, “Written Sitting in the Ruins of Old
Sheldon Church, St. William's Parish, Beaufort
County, South Carolina, 16 October, 2004”
The Pegasus Prize
Carol Peters, “Aunt Naked”
The Post and Courier Prize Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Father Spends the Night Lost
in the Santee Swamp”
The Constance Pultz Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Matches”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Katherine Williams, “Anagram: Epithalamion”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Don Geddes, “Archie”

The John H. Bennett, Jr. Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “John Bennett”
The Jeanne Crandall Broulik Memorial Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Isn’t There A Ship”
The John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Tango de La Luna”
The Forum Prize
Carol G. Furtwangler, “Cocoon”
The Humorous Verse Prize
James J. Lundy, Jr., “When the Lights Go Out”
The Peter Pan Prize
Jane Emerson Blewer, “The Chase”
The Beatrice Ravenel Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Elegy for the City”
The Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “Tomorrow Afternoon the Fifth Graders
Will Hold Auditions for the Spring Play”
The William Gilmore Simms Prize
Henk Brandt, “Drawbridge on New Year’s Eve”
The Skylark Prize
Duncan Wallace Moore, “A Short Recounting
of One Road to Immortality”
The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Prize
Deborah Lawson Scott, “The Elders”
The Footlight Players Prize
Michael H. Lythgoe, “Rooster Tales (3)”
The John Edward Johnson Prize
Kimberly Simms, “Brother’s Mess of Crosses”
The Lyric Poem Prize
Henk Brandt, “Woman”
The Marjorie E. Peale Prize
Debra A. Daniel, “My Grandmother Steals Oleanders at Windy Hill Beach”
The Pegasus Prize
Jules Riley, “Dogstar Moon”
The Post and Courier Prize Prize
George Pope, “Meeting Miss Mississippi (Columbus, Mississippi, Circa 1961)”
The Constance Pultz Prize
George Pope, “Freedom Hat”
The Kinloch Rivers Memorial Prize
Kit Loney, “Hot Night, No Screens”
The Archibald Rutledge Prize
Dennis Ward Stiles, “Pelican Mantras”
Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Prize Winner
Michael H. Lythgoe, Brass
High School Gold Winners in Poetry
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Victoria Doose Annie Doran Liz Gildea Daniel Perez Rebecca Plante |
Charleston County School of the Arts
Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Bishop England High School Helen Brandenburg, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Academic Magnet High School Wendy Pumphrey, Instructor Academic Magnet High School Junius Wright, Instructor |
Middle School Gold Winners in Poetry
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Meagan Brandli Lauren DiNicola Collins Rice Lauren Ryder Sally Sheppard |
Ashley Hall
Jane Pelland, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Mary Ann Henry, Instructor Charleston County School of the Arts Rene Bufo Miles, Instructor Ashley Hall Jane Pelland, Instructor |