Glimmer Train's
Poetry Open
Top 25 Winners And Finalists

1st-place winner:
Ioanna Carlsen for "Horse-Washing Waterfall"

2nd-place winner:
Brittney Corrigan for "Birds of Passage"

3rd-place winner:
Monica Berlin for "A Sort of Excavation"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:
Hilary Bachelder for "Cartographile"
Cecilia Cerutti for "The Model Builder"
Susan Chambers for "How It Is with Us"
Steve Edwards for "When You Walk across New Mexico"
Timothy Engelbrecht for "Sestina: The New Boat"
Dan Gilmore for "A Note from Nashville"
Elizabeth Haymaker for "Spring Planting"
Laurie Kuntz for "Clothes on the Line"
Meghan Kyle for "Advice for Travelers in These Parts"
Alex Lemon for "Butcher Dream"
Melissa Matthewson for "In Catavina"
Stephen McElfresh for "An Alley Poem"
Mary Petrosky for "Restoration"
John Picarazzi for "Assimilation"
LeeAnn Pickrell for "The Mirror"
Carolyn Redman for "About to End"
Brenda Tate for "The Closing of Great Harbour Deep"
Bradford Tice for "Metallurgy"
Kathleen Valenzi for "Cowgirl Longings"
Sundy Watanabe for "Willing"
Karen Wooten for "FAITH"
Matt Yurdana for "Through Fog"