- Winners Have been Announced -

The Ontario Poetry Society Presents:
The Open Heart 6 Poetry Competition Winners List

1st Prize
Breaking Up by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Charity of Choice:
Heart and Stroke Foundation

18 Honourable Mention Awards:
(In no particular order)

Carnival by David Huebert, Toronto, Ontario

The Suicide by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

The Kiss by Beth Skala, Nanaimo, B.C.

The House by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Boy Crazy by Aha Blume, Hamilton, Ontario

Diagnosis by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Adjustments by Beth Skala, Nanaimo, B.C.

After the Children Leave by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Solving the Puzzle by Luminita Suse, Ottawa, Ontario

Looking on in California by David Huebert, Toronto, Ontario

Crows by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Psalm ll by April Bulmer, Cambridge, Ontario

Mother's Day by Elizabet Stevens, Sussex, New Brunswick

My Father by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Among Women by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

Night Flights by Gail Peck Miller, Meaford, Ontario

Too Late by Cecilia Tolley, Toronto, Ontario

Bathing Our Son by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ontario

*Special thanks to our judge, Michael Fraser, who carefully read all 280 poems
before selecting the winning entries.
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Open Heart 7 for 2012 is now open