Bob Sharkey announces the results of the 2017 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Contest. There will be a reading at the Colonie Town Library on Sunday, May 7, beginning at 1:30 p.m. where many of the poets listed below will read the poems they submitted to the contest.
2017 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Contest Awards and Finalists
First Place, $500: “Your Service”—Cheryl Rice, Kingston NY
Second Place, $250: “The Osterias Are Tipping Prosecco”—Ken Holland, Fishkill NY
Third Place, $200: “What Was Once Solid”—Phyllis Hillinger, Delmar NY
Fourth Place, $100: “Granted Dominion”—Andy Fogle, Saratoga Springs NY
Best Out of State, $300: “Anabasis By Night”—Marc Levy, Salem MA
High Honorable Mentions (4) $75:
- “Not My President”—Karen Fabiane, Troy NY
- “The Moon, a Blood Orange”—Mary Leonard, Kingston NY
- “Pipe”—Dianne Sefcik, Westerlo NY
- “It is in the shelter of each other that people live”—Mark O’Brien, Clarksville NY
Honorable Mentions (6) $45:
- “The Dance Of Dish And Glass”—Anthony Bernini, Troy NY
- “Lovestory”—Dineen Carta, Gansevoort NY
- “Linoleum”—Michelle Chen, Whitestone NY
- “Dr. Kwan Kew Lai’s Refrigerator”—Jodi Ackerman Frank, Argyle NY
- “Dissolving the Distance Between You”—Carol Graser, Galway NY
- “Dream a Little Dream of Me: Visiting Louis Armstrong’s Birthplace”—Catherine Norr, Glenville NY
Other Finalists:
- “Organ Lessons”—Joe Krausman, Albany NY
- “9th Period”—Amy Reynolds Comtois, Cohoes NY
- “A Love Sonnet to February”—Tess Lecuyer, Albany NY
- “Directions For Success”—Paul Horton Amidon, Albany NY
- “Summer, Maine, 1968”—Virginia Bach Folger, Schenectady NY
- “What Marks the Spot Is the Cost of Doing Business”—Jen Karetnick, Miami Shores FL
- “Symphony”—Martin Willitts Jr, Syracuse NY
- “Of Leave-takings”—Sharmon Gazaway, Calhoun GA
- “Where Utopians Sport Recoilless Doc Martins”—Tom Corrado, Middleburgh NY
- “Tents of Jordan”—Therese Broderick, Albany NY
- “Litany”—Kathleen Smith, Loudonville NY
- “Squid Fishing in Halong Bay”—Bunkong Tuon, Niskayuna NY
- “Before you know gratitude”—Nancy Klepsch, Troy NY
- “Maria Lactans”—Barbara Ungar, Saratoga Springs NY
- “Braque’s Athena 1931”—Sarah Wyman, Rosendale NY
- “Dear Daughters Our World Spins Round”—Rebecca Irene, Portland ME
- “Those Days Are Gone”—Tanzila Rehmat, Islamabad, Pakistan
