Glimmer Train's
Poetry Open
Top 25 Winners And Finalists

1st-place winner:
Michelle Coppedge for "The Dress"

2nd-place winner:
Gillian Devereux for "What We See under Water"

3rd-place winner:
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for "Charm for the Drowned Boy"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:
Paul Acker for "The Pottergarden"
Tia Ballantine for "Defaced Spirits"
Jamie Blumberg for "Jocasta"
Sofiya Cabalquinto for "My Father Draws Volcanoes"
Rita Costello for "Paper Scissors Rock"
Thomas Dukes for "For Ruth"
Jeff Fearnside for "The Rules"
Beth Ferris for "Half Sisters Tryptich"
Tim Gilmore for "Conversation Piece"
Kevin González for "Cultural Slut"
Alison Hicks for "Dusk Revisited"
Karen Kovacik for "Liquid Syntax"
Jennifer Madriaga for "Being Nursed by Walt Whitman"
Gianmarc Manzione for "What There Is"
Gabriella Mirollo for "Pictures"
M.E. Mishcon for "How to Feel Safe"
Brendan Noonan for "Poetry Is Dead?"
Pamela Porter for "Checkpoint: Buenos Aires"
Kirsten Rian for "Where an Ocean Used to Be"
Derek Sheffield for "Living on James Wright"
Jesse Waters for "Uncle Jolek's Hand"
Melissa Yancy for "Oncology, Ontology, Ornithology"