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WINNERS:

First Prize of $1000 plus publication:  John Victor Anderson of Lafayette, LA for his poem, “Alligator Kisses”
Second Prize of $250 plus publication: Lisa Drnec Kerr of Ashfield, MA for her poem,  “Walking Horses”
Third Prize of $100 plus publication:   Monica Barron of Kirksville, MO for her poem,  “Hunting Song”

FINALISTS:
(Author – poem, in alphabetical order. All will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of Naugatuck River Review)
Mary Brancaccio – “Birthing Pigs in Kingman, Arizona”
Patrick Chapman – “The Orphan”
Diane Dolphin – “Sunday, Late Afternoon, September”
Jo Angela Edwins – “At the Doctor’s Office”
Karie Friedman – “Rural Renewal”
Ruth Goring – “Lamp”
Christina Lovin – “Tumor: First Day: Double Vision”
Terry Lucas – “Harvest”
Eileen Malone – “Grief”
Mike Nelson – “Vespers, I Guess”
Betsy Pfeil – “Racing with the Queen”
Matthew Porubsky  – “P.S.”
Jane Rosenberg LaForge – “The Resurrection of Anne Sexton”
Wendy Green Simpson – “Words”
David Sloan – “Ten Easy Steps”
Sam Thomas – “Morne Diablotin”

SEMI-FINALISTS:
(will be published in the Winter 2011 issue of Naugatuck River Review)

David Anderson – “Siren”
Lana Ayers – “The Dead Boy Visits the Hayden Planetarium”
Lana Ayers – “The Dead Boy Teaches Me About Godzilla”
Monica Barron – “Meditation from West of the River”
Maggie Butler – “Point of View”
Lily Deng – “My Grandfather’s Fishes”
Jennifer Fandel – “What Poverty Means to Me”
Nadine Gallo – “Sestina: Heart Failure”
Marianne Gambaro – “Easter Baking”
Russell Gardner, Jr. – “Richard Quinney Tells of Aunt Marjorie”
Russell Gardner, Jr. – “Chief Buffalo Has Marble and Bronze Busts in the U.S. Capitol”
Terry Godbey – “Diagnosis”
Frances Gilmore – “Girl Woman”
Ruth Goring – “Long”
Constance Hanstedt – “Jesse”
Pamela Harrison – “Priscilla, Mowing”
Michael Herron – “Shop to Let”
Don Herzberg – “As She Drives Our Dirt Road”
Susie Howard – “Cheater”
Hannah Trintje Jansen – “The Things You Need”
Jan Keough – “Cistern Cay Vacation”
Lisa Drnec Kerr – “The Burns Effect”
Lisa Drnec Kerr – “Every House on Jimmy Freeze Road”
Cecele Kraus – “Shantytown”
Kristin Laurel – “Speed Grief”
Sandy Longley – “The Crossing”
Christina Lovin – “The Other Sister”
Laura Maffei – “Observing the Species”
Jay McCoy – “On the Kentucky Side of the Tug Fork”
Adnan Onart – “No Love No City”
Betsy Pfeil – “Watching War Movies with the Colonel”
Jhena Plourde – “Cell Walls”
Lee Pursewarden – “Dreaming of Prompts”
Paul Richmond – “It’s Snowing and Cold, May 2011”
Laura Rodley – “Basic Training”
Chivas Sandage – “Last Days on Oasis Drive”
Wendy Green Simpson – “Circular Street”
David Sloan – “Barn Fall”
David Sloan – “Esopus River Ride”
Elizabeth Stassinos – “The House in the Cape”
J. Hope Stein – “Invention of the Phonograph”
Adam Tavel – “Sometimes at Seven”
Kathleen Trestka – “Insomnia”
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé – “If the Post-Impressionists Painted Foula”

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