Traditional Sonnets, Judge: Marilyn L. Taylor (WI)

1st Place: Martin J. Elster (CT), “Hawk Feather”
2nd Place: Charmaine Smith (CA), “Silent Running”
3rd Place: Gail White (LA), “Cat Spotting”

1st Honorable Mention: Lynda LaRocca (CO), “Trinity”
2nd Honorable Mention: Enriqueta Carrington (NJ), “For a Silent Musician”
3rd Honorable Mention: Jean L. Kreiling (MA), “Tunneling”

1st Special Merit: Mel Goldberg (IL), “On Seeing Picasso’s Guernica”
2nd Special Merit: John Whitney Steele (CO), “Borrowing”
3rd Special Merit: Julia Griffin (GA), “Whole”

Modern Sonnet, Judge: Steven Concert (PA)

1st Place: Betsy Bolton (PA), “Sycamores #5: Broken”
2nd Place: Miranda Beeson (NY), “Praise Song”
3rd Place: K. Roberts (USA), “Fisherman’s Sonnet”

1st Honorable Mention: Gail White (LA), “Driving in Italy”
2nd Honorable Mention: Ryan Apple (MI), “For Autumn Days You Think of the Winter”
3rd Honorable Mention: Quentin Brown (S. Africa), “Moustache”

1st Special Merit: Michael Stalcup (Thailand), “Christ’s Coronation”
2nd Special Merit: Tracy Davidson (U. K.), “Fractured”
3rd Special Merit: Meghayn Wilkheims (GA), “The Angel Aria’s Death: Wings Sprawled Upon the Branch”