Announcing 2013 Poetry Contest Winners

Grand prize-cat.11st pl.-S.Amelia Snelling (at 82)2nd pl.-Marsha Mittman (the Missing)3rd pl.-Heather Aker (Making Thunder)HM.-Merry Lynn Fuerst (I laughed until I cried)SD. Woman who made a difference-cat.21st pl.-Daniel G. Snethen (One-Armed Hypocrisy)2nd pl.-Barbara Duffey (Zitkala Sa)3rd. pl.-Merry Lynn Fuerst (The Little Lady Sheep Herder)Animal-cat.31st pl.-Linda Shere (For Ita)2nd pl.-Barbra Blanks (Catalyst)3rd. pl.-Jerri Hardesty (Dog’s Eye View)Twenty 1st Century Farming –cat.41st pl.-Rosemary Dunn Moeller (Numbering)2nd pl.-Bruce Roseland (South Dakota Rural Conversation)3rd pl.-Jerri Hardesty (Feathers and Fluff)Social Media-cat.51st pl.-D. Beecher Smith, II (A bit too cheeky)2nd pl.-Becky Alexander (Finding Hubert)3rd pl.-Barbara Blanks (Socially Immaterial)The Mighty Mo -cat.61st pl.-Bruce Roseland (SD Nice)2nd pl.-Rosemary Dunn Moeller (On adding Harvey Dunn’s painting, “Homesite”)3rd pl.-Mark Peacock (Beware the Mighty Mo)Dark Poetry- cat.71st pl.-Marsha Mittman (shengnv and proud)2nd.pl.-Becky Alexander (reflections)3rd pl.-Jean Marie Purcell (a Triolet)HM.- S. Amelia Snelling, HM.-Mark Peacock,HM.-D. Beecher Smith, II, HM.-Kathleen Lane, and HM.- Nan SteinleyZip code poem-cat.81st pl.-Rosemary Dunn Moeller (In Thanks (57373)2nd pl.-Sandra Barany (57783)3rd.pl.-Barbara Blanks (Water Lilies 75044)On writing poetry-cat.91st pl.-Mark Peacock (on writing poetry)2nd pl.-D. Beecher Smith, II (To poets and writers on writing)3rdpl.-Barret Gapp (writing poetry)HM-Rosemary Dunn Moeller (Woven words)HM-Kathleen Lane (A Pizza Party of Poets)SD. Landscape-cat.101st pl.-Marilyn Kratz (What you see when you look back)2nd pl.-Mark Peacock (Black Hills Underworld)3rd pl.-Kathleen Lane (Deadwood, South Dakota)Thank you to everyone who entered!