Glimmer Train's Poetry Open
Top 25 Winners and Finalists
October 2000
1st-place winner:
Rita D. Costello for “Shadow Trees”
2nd-place winner:
Marjorie Kowalski Cole for “A Heart that Is Pleased by the Sea”
3rd-place winner:
Clark Karoses for “A Singed Pigeon’s Quill”
And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:
Monica Berlin for “Attached to Hands”
Jenny Browne for “If God Agrees”
Maria Elena Caballero-Robb for “The Remedies”
Ioanna Carlsen for “Embers”
B. W. Carter for “Thank You for Shooting Me in the Head”
Susan Chambers for “Conservatory”
William Clipman for “Bulldozing the Garden of Hope”
Rita D. Costello for “Discovering Resonance”
Jennifer Davis for “Occupying Hotel Santa Teresa”
Sally Lipton Derringer for “To the Poet (Autobiographia Poetica)”
Judith Ferrara for “Elegy for a Plane Robber, Manila, May 2000”
C. B. Follett for “The Bird Is Inside”
Renee Gregorio for “Marginal Way”
Meghan Hickey for “Why I Don’t Use Kiehl’s Lotion ‘For Men’”
Thea S. Kuticka for “Immigrant Gap”
J. Keiko Lane for “Mission Street”
Thomas J. Phalen for “Stumblebum”
Brent Royster for “96 Butterflies”
Jane Satterfield for “Shards & Scripts”
Vivian Shipley for “Assigned Reading: Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique”
Susan Terris for “Is the Sun the Same as Yesterday’s or Is this Fire Different from that Fire?”
Penny Whisman for “Fine Lines”
We thank all entrants for sending their poetry.
The 1st place poem will be published in the Winter 2001 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
