This week presenting the winners of the
2013 (16th annual) Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest:
Douglas Richardson, Aaron Gardner and Donal Mahoney
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Douglas Richardson
weakcreature@aol.com
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Douglas Richardson won first place in the 2013 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. He was born in Duluth , Minnesota , and raised in Camarillo , California . He currently lives in Los Angeles , where he works as a proofreader, editor, novelist, and poet. Publication credits this year include Straight Forward Poetry and The Nervous Breakdown. His books Poems for Loners and Ghosts in Time and Space were selected by Poetry Super Highway as Holiday Recommendations in 2010 and 2011, respectively
The following work is Copyright © 2013, and owned by Douglas Richardson and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Notes from the Graveyard Shift 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. |
Aaron Gardner
mistergardner@gmail.com
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Aaron Gardner won second place in the 2013 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. He lives in Ojai, California and is a poet, educator, and father of two phenomenal children. He has been heavily involved in the spoken word scene since 1999, and was the Oakland Grand Slam Champion in 2010. Aaron continues his work locally with young poets to help them discover their voices and the power contained therein.
The following work is Copyright © 2013, and owned by Aaron Gardner and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Goosedown His words had weight. Each one We both stared at them sitting “I’ll have to hide my father’s gun” I told him a story about birds; The pressure of holding all those leaden When he returns from the place one must go |
Donal Mahoney
donalmahoney@charter.net
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Donal Mahoney won third place in the 2013 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. He lives in St. Louis Missouri and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poetry and fiction published in a variety of print and electronic publications in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his work can be found here: http://eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html
The following work is Copyright © 2013, and owned by Donal Mahoney and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
So Fingertips Kiss Five kids, eight years. “I’ve had enough.” against her knee pirouettes, and keeps rising. As if at the ballet, |