The Ontario Poetry Society

First Prize:
After My Dad Loses His Job by Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ont.
Second Prize:
Cleo: Great-With-Child, Montreal by April Bulmer, Cambridge, Ont.
Third Prize:
Friendship by Jan Wood, Big River, Saskatchewan

2 Honourable Mention Awards:
(in no particular order)
Crosscut by Keith Inman, Thorold, Ont.
Gridlock by Joanna Gale, Markham, Ont.

5 Judge's Choice Awards:
(in no particular order)
caught in a traffic jam by Vanna Tessier, Edmonton, Alberta
A Mother of Two Eats Alone in Her Car (again) by Vanessa Shields, Windsor, Ont.
strangers in aisle five by Wendy Bourke, Burnaby, B.C.
Questions About Monet by John Di Leonardo, Brooklin, Ont.
Night Cradle by Janis McCallen, Newmarket, Ont.

Runners Up:
(in alphabetical order by last name)
Songbird by Nusaiba Al-Azeem, London, Ont.
Trains and Trees by Nusaiba Al-Azeem, London, Ont.
Event Horizon by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews, Oakville, Ont.
The Waitress by Audrey Austin, Elliot Lake, Ont.
Springing Into Step by Sonya Avelino, Richmond, B.C.
Genealogy by Don Bennett, Haileybury, Ont.
My Mother, Walking Home From Work by Jeevan Bhagwat, Toronto, Ont.
Waiting by Jeevan Bhagwat, Toronto, Ont.
Shelter by Ronnie R. Brown, Ottawa, Ont.
Escort Into the White by Kenneth B. Budnark, Oakville, Ont.
It Could Have Been Different by John Corvese, Burlington, Ont.
Les Miserables by Norah Eastern, Innisfil, Ont.
Shadow Play by Fran Figge, Stoney Creek, Ont.
July/68/Hwy. 69 by Joanna Gale, Markham, Ont.
Do Disturb by Suparna Ghosh, Toronto, Ont.
A Long Road by Suparna Ghosh, Toronto, Ont.
Reading About Cannibalism by Rhoda Hassmann, Hamilton, Ont.
Re-Assessment by Rhoda Hassmann, Hamilton, Ont.
Run(a)way Fashion by Debbie Okun Hill, Camlachie, Ont.
The Old Barn by Margaret Jean Iles, Oakville, Ont.
Personal Complexities by I.B. Iskov, Toronto, Ont.
Pamela for Mayor by I.B. Iskov, Toronto, Ont.
Visitors to the ROM by Charlene Jones, Stouffville, Ont.
I must have fallen asleep because by George Kusyj, Victoria, B.C.
Villain/Elle by Ruth Latta, Ottawa, Ont.
October Gift by Ruth Latta, Ottawa, Ont.
Long, Long Ago by Norma West Linder, Sarnia, Ont.
The Call by Janis McCallen, Newmarket, Ont.
We Were Supposed to go Shopping by Janis McCallen, Newmarket, Ont.
Wolf by S.A. McCormick, Cameron, Ont.
Las Vegas by Gail M. Murray, Toronto, Ont.
What Should I Tell Him by Jimmy Ngandu, Toronto, Ont.
A Stranger Inside by Catina Noble, Ottawa, Ont.
Woodcutting by Deidre Reitav, Madoc, Ont.
Relief Camp No. 134 by Donna Sacuta, North Vancouver, B.C.
Anyone's Childhood by Mel Sarnese, Unionville, Ont.
Moods by Mel Sarnese, Unionville, Ont.
Sorrow by Weeda Shareqi Salehi, Mississauga, Ont.
Radiation Clinic: Ladies in Waiting by Patricia Smekal, Nanoose Bay, B.C.
A Local Poet and the Panhandling Street Philosopher by J.J. Steinfeld, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Woman in Politics by Dorothy Stott, Gibsons, B.C.
A Show of Hands by Lynn Tait, Sarnia, Ont.
moonlight girl by Vanna Tessier, Edmonton, Alberta
Can't Commute by Catherine M. Thompson, Burlington, Ont.
Crazy Old Man by Cecilia Tolley, Toronto, Ont.
Mental Illness Imagery by Cecilia Tolley, Toronto, Ont.
the golden years by Richard Toth, Bathurst, N.B.
Today by Tony Valuch, Oshawa, Ont.
Clouds by Max Vandersteen, Edmonton, Alberta
Ukraine by Lily Williams, Toronto, Ont.
heard in the shell by Nan Williamson, Peterborough, Ont.
Graftiong a Scion by Jan Wood, Big River, Saskatchewan
If You had Been born Paul by Jan Wood, Big River, Saskatchewan
Nursing Home Power Failure by Ed Woods, Dundas, Ont.

Special thanks to our judge, K.V. Skene who read over 250 poems to select all the winning entries.