Thanks again to everyone who participated in this year’s competition. We’re pleased to announce the following winners, whose poems will appear in this December’s issue of Rattle, #28.

First Prize:

“Barcelona”
Albert Haley
Abilene, TX

Honorable Mentions:

“Living the Chemical Life”
Chris Anderson
Corvalis, OR

“What My Parents Want”
Devika Brandt
Occidental, CA

“Buoy”
Debra Marquart
Ames, IA

“Ars Poetica Harmonica”
Glenn Morazzini
Cumberland, ME

“Hitch-Hiking”
Gretchen Steele Pratt
W. Lafayette, IN

“Corner Store”
Brian Satrom
Minneapolis, MN

“Spin”
Alison Townsend
Stoughton, WI

“Of Unity and Wholeness”
Jay Udall
Reno, NV

“You Never Know When…”
Nathaniel Whittemore
La Habra, CA

“Amber”
Maya Jewell Zeller
Spokane, WA

Semi-Finalists (offered publication in issue #29, Summer 2008):

Melissa Altenderfer, Martha Clarkson, John Colasacco, Paul Dickey, ellen, Peter Funk, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jared Harel, Lynne Knight, Jason Nemec, John Paul O’Connor, Sherman Pearl, Hayden Saunier, Donna K. Spector, Sarah Pemberton Strong, Jennifer Sweeney, and Douglas Woody Woodsum

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