My poem Redemption recently won the 2010 Southern Illinois Writers Guild National Contest (Poetry Division)! Big thanks to Roger Poppen (the Contest Chair) and anyone else involved in with this wonderful contest opportunity. My poem Education also earned a tie for third place.
I am both happy and humbled that my work has been received this positively. Redemption especially was an experiment of sorts for me, a venture into a different style of poetry than I usually write, so I am encouraged by its victory.
To see a complete list of the contest winners, you can click here.
Since Redemption garnered first place, it will be published in an anthology – I’ll pass along those details later.