Glimmer Train's Poetry Open
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
April 2000

1st-place winner:
Ron Egatz for “Post-Eisenhower Nourishment”

2nd-place winner:
Cameron K. Gearen for “The Long View”

3rd-place winner:
Susan Thomas for “Saturday Morning at the River Run Café”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Carl Adamshick for “Sense”
Lina Chern for “The Parting of Onions”
Graeme Fordyce for “Island”
Matt Frank for “Gravity”
Robert W. Griffin for “After the Lawyers, Driving Through Wheat Fields”
Erin Hagenow for “There’s a Woman in Cordova, New Mexico”
Michael J. Henry for “Men in Vegas”
Meghan Hickey for “Family Portrait”
Terry Kirts for “O Miracle Whip”
Steve Lautermilch for “The Witness”
Barbara F. Lefcowitz for “Gegenschein in a Grain of Sand”
Jonas Lerman for “Delta”
Greg Mahrer for “Between”
Emily Meier for “Arrival”
Nils Michals for “News of the Blazing World Gone Down”
Kathy O’Fallon for “Upon Waking”
Stella Padnos for “Digits”
Karen Peterson for “We Walked Out to the Temple”
Martin Scott for “Creole Delicacies”
Lusia Slomkowska for “The Inn”
Nancy Wahl for “Panpsychism”
Sam Witt for “Stepping into the Light”

We thank all entrants for sending their poetry. This was a stunning batch.
The 1^st place poem will be published in the Winter 2001 issue of Glimmer Train Stories