Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest Winners

National division winner:N-1 In this Room

National division runners up:
2nd place: “Ballad of the Witch” by Clif Mason (Omaha, NE)
3rd place: “Happy” by Ester K. Willison (Schenectady, NY)

National Division Honorable Mentions:
“To Desire a Photograph” by Janet Zandy (Rochester, NY)
“Just Past Sunset, the Red Fox” by Diane Woodcock (Midlothian, VA)
“The Shape of Shadow” by Anne Barney (Great Cacapon, WV)
“Little Steps: Workshop Week 10” by Kathryn Petruccelli (Florence, MA)
“Lady of Space” by Gloria Murray (Deer Park, NY)
“Leaving the Anne Frank House” by James Mckee (Astoria, NY)
“Elegy” by Luke Cumberland (Woodbridge, VA).

Regional Division winner:

R-1 Listening to Public Radio

Regional Division runners up:
2nd place: “Animal Nights” by Diane Woods Ashley (Eastham)
3rd place: “Tasting the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil at the Stop and Shop” by Lucile Burt (South Wellfleet)

Regional Division Honorable Mentions:
“Romancing a Pacemaker” by J. Lorraine Brown (Mashpee)
“Hunting Mushrooms” with Mina by Ed Meek (Wellfleet)
“Early Education, Chattanooga Tennessee, 1953” by Wilderness Sarchild (Brewster)
“A Walk in the Woods” by Lucile Burt (South Wellfleet)
“Gravity Killed Sister E” by Jo Brisbane (East Dennis)
“Visiting Auschwitz” by Wilderness Sarchild (Brewster)
“First Real Job” by Michael Shapiro (Brewster)