tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1326154874055777931.post-53344442820049081002008-05-05T07:55:00.000-07:002008-05-12T10:58:49.928-07:00Dear Poets,<br /><br />All the reading has been done, whee, on the VRH submissions. The finalists are:<br /><br />David Evans of Charbondale , IL, for A Chorus of the Wild<br /><br />Dion Farquhar of Santa Cruz, CA, for Wonderful Terrible<br /><br />Leonard Dress of Perrysburg, OH, for The Orpheus Complex<br /><br />Veronica Patterson of Loveland, CO, for Around the Block of the World<br /><br />Juditha Dowd of Stockton, NJ for Temporary Offices<br /><br />Arthur Gottlieb of Tigard, OR for Believe You Me<br /><br />Christopher Bursk of Langhorne Manor, PA, for Happiness Anonymous<br /><br />Renny Christopher of Camarillo, CA, for Why I Want to Colonize Mars<br /><br />Kevin Cantwell of Macon, GA, for One of Those Russian Novels<br /><br />Gary Hawkins of Norman, OK, for Paradise for the Rest of Us<br /><br />Robert Parham of Augusta, GA, for The Ghosts of Montparnasse<br /><br />Suzanne Wadley Rhodenbaugh of St. Louis, MO, for The Whole Shebang and Silver for the Long Haul<br /><br />Lucas Carpenter of Oxford, GA, for The Mutilated Man<br /><br />Christina Lovin of Lancaster, KY for Settlement<br /><br />Scott Owens of Hickory, NC, for ?<br /><br />David Salner of Frederick, MD, The Feta, the Olives, the Wine<br /><br />Lianne Spidel of Greenville OH, for Something Made of Earth<br /><br />Starkey Flythe of North Augusta, SC, for The Futile Lesson of Glue<br /><br />Rupert Fike of Clarkston, GA, for This One Shot We All Get<br /><br />Judith Hemschemeyer of Winter Park, FL, for Hope<br /><br />Gregory Byrd of Clearwater, FL, for Florida Straits<br /><br />Peter Kahn of Chicago, IL, for Swing (and Miss)<br /><br />We will announce the name of the judge, who has the poems now, when we announce the name of the winner and the runners up. It has been an honor to read and decide on the finalists. I commend you on all of your efforts---you got it into the mail.<br /><br /><br /><br />All the best, RobertaRGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12483270088142765082noreply@blogger.com