WyoPoets Members-Only Contest
The WyoPoets Members-Only Contest is closed!
The next Members-Only Contest will be 2027!
The WyoPoets Members-Only Contest is closed!
The next Members-Only Contest will be 2027!
2025 Members-Only Contest Winners
First Place: John Nesbitt, “Field Workers”
Second Place: Patricia Frolander, “Influenced”
Third Place: Don Oakley, “The Gleaner’s Homestead”
Honorable Mention:
Rose Hill, “We Sail a Sea of Grass”
Karen Call, “Writers at Panera Bread”
Myra Peak, “Fixation”
Bev Kenik, “Before Long”
Myra Peak, “I’ll Wear Your Mittens”
John Nesbitt, “Girl in the Valley”
Don Oakley, “The Gleaner”
John Nesbitt, “Man of Trees”
Tom Spence, “Sonnet: ...a hundred visions...”
Reatha Oakley, “The Aunts on My Daddy’s Side”
Bev Kenik, “Whadya Catch?”
First Place: John Nesbitt, “Field Workers”
Second Place: Patricia Frolander, “Influenced”
Third Place: Don Oakley, “The Gleaner’s Homestead”
Honorable Mention:
Rose Hill, “We Sail a Sea of Grass”
Karen Call, “Writers at Panera Bread”
Myra Peak, “Fixation”
Bev Kenik, “Before Long”
Myra Peak, “I’ll Wear Your Mittens”
John Nesbitt, “Girl in the Valley”
Don Oakley, “The Gleaner”
John Nesbitt, “Man of Trees”
Tom Spence, “Sonnet: ...a hundred visions...”
Reatha Oakley, “The Aunts on My Daddy’s Side”
Bev Kenik, “Whadya Catch?”
2021 WyoPoets Members-Only Contest Winners
First Place: Mandie Hines for “Revelation of a Murmuration”
Second Place: Rose Hill for “Camp Weather”
Third Place: Art Elser for “The Ancient Call of Sandhill Cranes”
Honorable Mentions:
Carol L. Deering for “Grief”
Phil Flott for “Roller Skater”
Renee Meador for “Astrolabe”
Kathleen Smith for “Drought”
Eowyn Vesper for “Howling at the Moon”
Eowyn Vesper for “Rainbow Trout Symphony”
We are very pleased that Veronica Golos, the esteemed New Mexico poet and author, was our contest judge. Veronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: A Bell Buried Deep (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), Vocabulary of Silence (2011 New Mexico Book Award), Rootwork, and GIRL (Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry.) She is the co-founding editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Second Place: Rose Hill for “Camp Weather”
Third Place: Art Elser for “The Ancient Call of Sandhill Cranes”
Honorable Mentions:
Carol L. Deering for “Grief”
Phil Flott for “Roller Skater”
Renee Meador for “Astrolabe”
Kathleen Smith for “Drought”
Eowyn Vesper for “Howling at the Moon”
Eowyn Vesper for “Rainbow Trout Symphony”
We are very pleased that Veronica Golos, the esteemed New Mexico poet and author, was our contest judge. Veronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: A Bell Buried Deep (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), Vocabulary of Silence (2011 New Mexico Book Award), Rootwork, and GIRL (Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry.) She is the co-founding editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
