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Contests

September Members-Only Contest

Details of the May 2027 members-only contest will be shared when available.

Winners of our September 2026 Members-only Contest

Contest: A Place Poem
Judge: Bill Schulz

First Place - “Launching,” Jo Radner
Second Place - “In Seldovia, The Magpie Admonishes,” Laura Buxbaum
Third Place - “Reversing Falls,” Nancy Sobanik

Honorable Mention - “Self-Portrait as Giant Halloween Skeletons Around a Small Town, Bought During the Pandemic, Still Standing Three Years Later,” Gus Peterson
Honorable Mention - “Almost Daily There is News,” Joann Gardner
Honorable Mention - “The Beverley Westwood, spring,” Jenny Doughty

 

Winners of the Maine Poets Society’s 2026 Prize Poem Contests

In the Published Poets category, the winner of the $150 prize was Peter Beckford for “Have You Heard.” Honorable mentions were awarded to Katia Ancona for “Six over six, 8 a.m.,” and Alice Haines for “Lace Sestina.”

In the Not Previously Published category, the winner of the $75 prize was Max Keeler for “The Moon Needs a Manicure,” Robert Chance for “Promise from the Silent Center of the Winter Solstice” and Max Keeler for “August Makes a Door of Me.”

 
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