Glimmer Train's Poetry Open
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
April 2001

1st-place winner:
Matthew Doherty for “Texas”

2nd-place winner:
Noah E. Gordon for “Nomenclature of the Digits”

3rd-place winner:
Andrea Carter Brown for “The New Card Catalogue”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

John Anderson for “Alligata Kisses”
Mas Breithart for “Poseidon’s Daughter”
Jeff Cohen for “Communion”
Jean Coulombre for “Summer’s End”
Susan Denning for “Cleaning House While Listening to a Tape of Anne Sexton”
Thomas Dukes for “The Challenge”
Anna Elkins for “Language Arts”
Lisa Goett for “American Gothic”
Corrinne Clegg Hales for “Full Body MRI”
Ava Leavell Haymon for “Century’s Child”
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for “Bemuse”
Marilyn Krysl for “Goya’s Fight with Cudgels”
Chad Marriott for “How Do You Sleep?”
Simone Muench for “Sketches of Dresses in Mean Reds”
Sima Rabinowitz for “Beyond Uranium”
Susan Rich for “Photograph, May 10, 1933”
Vivian Shipley for “Assigned Reading: Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique”
Wes Taft for “A Winter Letter”
Paula Tarrytown for “Finding Cecilia”
Terri Trespicio for “Avocado”
Ryan G. Van Cleave for “Blue Man Group & the Shiftiness of Wu Wei”
Brett Warren for “Twin”

We thank all entrants for sending their poetry. Matthew Doherty’s piece will be published in the Winter 2002 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in December.