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The 1998
Poetry Super Highway
Poetry Contest
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We'd like to thank all the poets who entered and all our sponsors
for making this first annual contest very successful!

Winners | Meet Your Judges | Contest Calendar

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Contest Winners

The results are in. 131 seperate poem entries have been reviewed by our fearless judges, Amélie Frank, E.A. Lynch, and Michael McNeilley, and after three months we are proud to announce the winners of the 1998 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest.

Read the top three winning poems HERE.

• first place
  Robert Wynne for his poem Budagher's Ark
  (Robert wins $83.50, a one year subsription to Anthology Magazine, and 2 chapbooks from Mary Kuntz Press.)
  
• second place
  Caron Andregg for her poem Ripe
  (Caron wins $50.10, a one year subscription to Anthology magazine, and 1 chapbook from Mary Kuntz Press.)
  
• third place
  Robert O'Sullivan Schleith for his poem Poem For Leo
  (Robert wins $33.40, a one year subscription to Anthology magazine, and 1 chapbook from Mary Kuntz Press.)
  
• fourth place
  Derrick Brown, Laurel Ann Bogan, Tabatha Yeatts, Carl Stilwell and Larry Colker
  (Who each win a chapbook from Mary Kuntz Press, as well as one of the following: copies of Dave Gitomer's Homemade Chapbook, a spoken word recording by Dave Gitomer, 2 year subscriptions to Blue Satellite Magazine.
  
• fifth place
  C.E. Chaffin, Susan Carlsen, Lizzie Wann, and Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci
  (Who each win a copy of the 1999 Poetry Calendar or a copy of the Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book.
  
• sixth place
  Lori M. Gilbertson, Karen Schierhoff, Dave Gitomer, and Dan Weinberg
  (Who each win a copy of the Carma Bums Book "Twisted Cadillac" or a copy of the latest issue of 51% magazine.)
  
• seventh place
  Terry McCarty, Janet Buck, Ellen Sander, and Chayah Kramer
  (Who each win a one year subscription to Lummox Journal or a copy of the poetry anthology "Dufus"
  
• eight place
  Meredith Johnston, Sara Ulinskas, and Mary Munro
  (Who each win a copy of a chapbook from Mary Kuntz Press)
  
• ninth place
  Donna Sue Laster
  (Who wins a copy of Su Falcon Soref's book "The Mechanics of Poetry.")
  
• tenth place
  Wally Richard and Sandra L. Harvey
  (Who each win a copy of Su Falcon Soref's book "The Mechanics of Poetry.")
  
• eleventh place
  Darcie M. Lane, Candice N. Hathorne, and Rachel Beckett
  (Who each win a copy of Su Falcon Soref's book "The Mechanics of Poetry.")

Meet Your Judges

• Amelie Frank (Los Angeles, California)
  is co-editor/publisher (with Matthew Niblock) of the Sacred Beverage Press, which produces the acclaimed literary journal "Blue Satellite" as well individual collections by some of Southern California's most highly regarded poets (including The Carma Bums, FrancEyE, Ellyn Maybe, Nelson Gary, and Richard Osborn Hood, as well as the successful "Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets" series). A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Frank took her B.A. in English (Creative Writing emphasis) from U.C. Irvine, studying with Charles Wright (this year's Pulitzer Prize winner) and Robert Peters. Emerging from the Iguana Cafe circle of writers and performers, she served as a judge for the MTV Spoken Word Contest in 1994 and has been a featured reader in most of the major (and many of the smaller) venues throughout Southern California. Deeply committed to discovering and championing new talent, she currently hosts (with Richard Modiano) the poetry readings on 2nd and 4th Thursdays at the Hot House Cafe. She contributes regular freelance reviews to NEXT Magazine. Her publication credits include: The Moment, Caffeine, Sabado Gigante, Red Dancefloor Press, Dance of the Iguana, 51%, The New University, and the anthology "Scream When You Burn." She is the author of three chapbooks: "A Resilient Heart & Other Visceral Comforts," "Flame and Loss of Breath," and "Drink Me" (with Matthew Niblock)--all three of which are now sold out. Most recently, the Poetry Super Highway showcased Ms. Frank as a "Poet of the Week." By day, she works in the motion picture industry. She will be listed in this year's edition of "Who's Who of American Women."
  
• Michael McNeilley (Aberdeen, Washington)
  Michael McNeilley is co-editor of Zero City with JJ Webb; was Founding Director of the National Student News Service; worked as a reporter and correspondent in Washington, DC; and has published hundreds of poems and stories in magazines such as New York Quarterly, New Delta Review, Poet, Chicago Review, Oyster Boy Review, Cross - Connect, Sonoma Mandala, Hyphen, Minotaur, Slipstream, Cafe Review, Pink Cadillac, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Plazm, DAM, Lilliput Review, Boulliabaisse, Writers' Forum, Green Fuse, Rockford Review, Mississippi Review, God's Bar Unplugged, Impetus, Tight, xib, Penny Dreadful, Exquisite Corpse, Atom Mind and elsewhere, including websites worldwide. McNeilley's recent books include Punch Lines (AAR Press, Seattle, WA, 1998) and Situational Reality (Dream Horse Press, San Jose, CA, 1998).
  
• EA Lynch (Denver, Colorado)
  poetry and fine art editor for SpokenWar. She enjoys imagining that she takes trips to the Amazon to collect wild and exotic plant specimens which are now being synthesized into miracle cures for things like hydroencephalitis. She writes fine poetry and as part of the SpokenWar collective she observes their standing tradition of not writing biographies.

• June 14: Contest begins
  
• June 22 - 28: Judges featured as Poets of the Week
  
• June 28: 2pm (pacific) Chat Room Event "Meet the Judges" contest entrants or people considering entering are invited to chat with the contest judges focusing on what they look for in poetry.
  
• September 7: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be postmarked by this day or they'll be returned.)
  
• September 13: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.
  
• September 18: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied scores.)
  
• September 20: 2pm (pacific) Chat Room Event "Winners Announced"
  
• September 21 - 27: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.