My favorite Poem Contest: 2008 | 2007 | 2006

INDEX
MY FAVORITE POEM READERS 2006-2009

Abbott, Valerie
2006 “The Touch of the Master’s Hand” by Myra B. Welch
 
 Austin, Joyce
2009 “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
 
 Bailey, Jimsey
2008 “‘Tis Mirth that Fills the Veins with Blood” by Francis Beaumont

Boliek, Robert
2006 “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden

Carter, Joanna
2006 “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

Chapman, Sadie
2006 “Annabelle Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

 
 Colvin, Bill
2007 “The Face on the Barroom Floor” by Hugh A. D’Arcy

Davidson, Rodney
2006 “Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman

Davis, Christopher
2009 “If” by Rudyard Kipling

Dawson, Frank
2008 “Incident of the French Camp” by Robert Browning

Dawson, Joan
2008 “Sit Beside the Fire” & “In Western Lands” by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dill, Todd
2008 “To My Beloved Self” by Greg Purcell

Downs, Elizabeth
2007 “Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot (excerpts)

Dykes, Rachael
2007 “Love Poem” by Gregory Orr

Flynn, Stuart
2009 “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver

Forsythe, Jennifer
2007 “Nao se mate” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Freeman, Bernice Tolbert
2009 “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou 2009

Gallaway, Deb
2006 “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by Wendell Berry

Gamble, Danny
2006 “next to of course god America” by e. e. cummings

Haddin, Theodore
2009 “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” by Richard Wilbur

Harris, Tina
2008 “Telling Our Stories” by Lucille Clifton

Howard, Mary
2006 “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham

Kennedy, Joey
2006 “Stopping By Woods” by Robert Frost

 
Kennedy, Veronica
2007 “The Lovers of the Poor” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Latham, Irene
2006 “My Secret Life” by Stephen Dunn

 
Lightsey, Stephen G.
2009 “If Thou Must Love Me” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Luther, Bob
2006 “High Flight” by John G. Magee, Jr.

Mishra, Manisha
2007 “Gayatri Mantra” Sanskrit

Mumford, Greg
2008 “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley

Nelson, R.A.
2007 “My Father in the Night Commanding No” by Louis Simpson

Northrop, John
2008 “Byzantium” by Yeats

Norton, Carol
2006 “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen

Nunn, Annetta
2006 “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou

Parcak, Sarah
2008 “Magic” & “Magic Carpet” by Shel Silverstein

Powell, Ricky
2007 “Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman

Pearson, D.S.
2007 “I carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart” by e.e. cummings

Reed, Jim
2006 “Stars” by Sara Teasdale (emcee 2006, 2007, 2008)

Royer, Mike
2008, 2009 “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W. Service
(emcee 2009)

Rudolph, Denise C.
2008 “I Will Write” by Jill Scott
 
 Sarris, George
2007 “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy

Smith, Alexandria
2008 “Being in Love” by Marvin Bell

Smitherman, Carol
2006 “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

Sneed, Kaitie
2007 “Writer Waiting” by Shel Silverstein

Stefanson, Don
2008 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats

Stewart, Don
2007 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Swagler, Susan
2007 “Messenger” by Mary Oliver

Trechsel, Jane
2006 “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas

Vines, Melissa Dameron
2009 “Museum of the Unmoving Image” by Clive James

Walker, Rev. Joseph W. Jr.
2006 “Sermons We See” by Edgar Guest

Walker, Sue Brannan
2006 “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

Wallace, George Jr.
2007 “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Washington, Daryl
2009 “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley

Williams, Wanda
2009 “A Song in the Front Yard” by Gwendolyn Brooks