Thank you to all the poets who entered the 2018 POWER contest. We received over 600 poems, and the judges chose thirty of them to be published in an e-book, which will also include the Judges’ Statements.

$1000 GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Bruce Bond “Wave”

RUNNERS-UP
1st runner up:  Bruce Bond “Lydia”
2nd runner up:  Simon Shieh “The Only Language He Has Given Us”
3rd runner up: Usha Akella “Naming”

FINALISTS:
Kristin Hoggatt-Abader “Trapping Fruit Flies”
Jerry Bradley: “Rats and Rainwater”
Joshua Burton “Grace and Pity”
Alexandria Delcourt “The Marcos Highway”
Tyler Dunston “Deep Sea Fishing”
Katherine Fishburn “Head, 1948–Homage to Francis Bacon”
Stephen Haven “Rope Tied to a Song: April 30, 1975”
Bernard Horn Try To Remember
Cindy Huyser “Behind the Church in Landstuhl”
Bridgette Jordan “Third Sunday”
Anna Leahy “A Thousand Suns”
Anna Leahy “Shooting Star”
Mary Makofske “Borders”
Megan de Matteo “Ellis Island”
Megan de Matteo”White Power”
Lisa Moore “Cackle”
Candice Reffe “The Executive’s Assistant’s Astral Existence”
Dulcie Veluthukaran”Rented”

HONORABLE MENTION
Kim Garcia “I Wanted The End, It Is True”
Aidah Gil “With Milk Please”
Stephen Harvey “Losing Viraj”
Rosa Lane “Tomboy’s Orbit”
Madison Samarjian “New Moon”
Caleb Scott, “For Russell & Yuval on the Occasion of Their Wedding”
Stanford Searl “At the Scaffold” (from Mary Dyer’s  Hymn and other Quaker Poems)