2024 CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN!

SDSPS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Poetry Contest. The competition was tough, and we thank our judges, Erika Saunders (Landscape) and Jodi Andrews (Portrait). We also thank everyone who entered the contest, and we hope you’re all busy working on your poems for the next contest; submissions will open August 1. Watch for these winning poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Pasque Petals…

Landscape

1 – Ruth Harper “Inland Sea”

2 – Todd Williams “Hunting Season Without a Weapon”

3 – Holly Moseley “O, Beautiful!”

Portrait

1 – Todd Williams “Of Corn Stalks, Wheat, and Alfalfa”

2 – SD Bassett “Classical Gas in the Old Grove”

3 – Betty Beer “The Story of a Drawing”