17th Annual Self-Published Book Awards Winners – Poetry
Announcing the Poetry winners of the 17th Annual Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards.
Poetry
First Place:
Brad Buchanan
Swimming The Mirror
www.roanpress.com
SacramentoCA
Honorable Mentions:
Nancy Price
Two Voices And A Moon
wwwalibris.com
Cedar FallsIA
DuEwa M. Frazier
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees
http://www.amazon.com/Check-Rhyme-Anthology-Female-Emcees/dp/0971905231/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240359267&sr=1-1
BrooklynNY
Maurice Gandy
The Calpocalypse: An Allegory in Verse
www.TheCalpocalypse.com
MobileAL
Entrants:
JoAnna O'Keefe
Embraced
www.joannaokeefe.com
MelbourneFL
Ahmed R. Rucker
Tru 2 Life Sentiments
RandallstownMD
James Vasquez
Men Who Knew Jesus Well
www.Amazon.com
SpokaneWA
Constance Hester
Call Me Myriad
www.thewildflowerpress.com
AlbuquerqueNM
Maria Psanis
a Child, a Dream, and a Sling Shot
www.iuniverse.com
TariffvilleCT
Jonathan Sherman
PEACE BEHIND THE POEM
www.lulu.com
DetroitMI
Janet L. Foster
The Weeping Rose (To Dream)
www.lulu.com
HuntingtonPA
Plein Air Poets Of San Luis Obispo County
Poems For Endangered Places
www.Amazon.com
San Luis ObispoCA
Mikki Mendelsohn
Chasing Moonbeams
www.Amazon.com
NapervilleIL
JoAnna O'Keefe
Morning's Light
www.joannaokeefe.com
MelbourneFL
Rachel P. Davis
Bleeding Honey
AlbuquerqueNM
Jerry Wilson
The Ecdysiast Anthology
www.burbooksontheweb.com
MasonMI
Bruce Kingery, Ed.D.
Black Lake Legacy
www.farmemorymusic.com
Rochester HillsMI
Max Preston
The Phoenix Collection & Other Poems
www.ivyhousebooks.com
HillsboroughNC
Stephen Ridic
Out of the Rain
www.stephenridic.com
MinneapolisMN
Mark Chandos
Chandos Ring
Kansas CityMO
MARK STABER KOBO
Greatest Living Poet
Kansas CityMO
Ty Grandison
Stripped
www.stripped-book.com
San JoseCA
Joshua Michael Stewart
Something To Do With Vulnerability
http://joshuamichaelstewart.syntasite.com
WareMA
Catherine Susla
Dreams Come True
EdisonNJ
Mark Rendina
Mantra Rain
Kansas CityMO
Cherie Burbach
Father's Eyes
http://www.bonjourpublishing.com/contact.html
Menomonee FallsWI
Michael Kasenow
Six Feet Under
michaelkasenow.com
PlymouthMI
Ralph Watley
Pop Goes The Poetry
www.Amazon.com
BryantAR
Teresa Ong
On Second Thought
ClosterNJ
Christopher Palmer
THe River Manic
www.amazon.com
LincolnNE
Julia Damaris
Black Lace
www.xlibris.com
MinneapolisMN
Richard Lollar
Reflections With Reality
www.redleadbooks.com
BullheadAZ
Adelaide Cummings
Pastiche
W FalmouthMA
James Vasquez
Women of the Bible
www.womenofthebibleinverse.com
SpokaneWA
Ann B. Day
Poetry Journal For The Seasons
WaitsfieldVT
H. G. Brown
ATTITUDES OF FLIGHT
http://www.amazon.com
Port St LucieFL
Ann B. Day
Poetry Through the Year
WaitsfieldVT
Carol Bryan Cook
Journeys
http://www.amazon.com
GranburyTX
Sheila Gallagher Murphy
View From A Kayak In Autumn
PortlandCT
Ramsundar Persad
The Lotus Blossoms
http://www.amazon.com
MaldenMA
Ivonne Delaflor
Your Soulmate Called God
http://www.amazon.com
Santa BarbaraCA
Adam Dustus
In & Out of Line
www.bbotw.com
E LansingMI
Christopher Kuhl
Sightings
wwwilumina.com
N AuroraIL
William J. Houston
Finally At East With Myself
http://www.amazon.com
Elm CityNC
Edward Theodore Hayes
The Love Scrolls: Casanova
LebanonNJ
Priscilla M. (Pat) Dozier
My Eyes Smile
www.xlibris.com
LaFayetteLA
Joanna Hawthorne
How Many Is One
www.joan-peterson.com
KingsburgCA
Randall M. Mooney
Prophets and Poets
http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Poets-Randall-M-Mooney/dp/0981965709/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238856518&sr=1-3
BrandonMS
Joan Lewis
Family, Friends and Fun
www.xlibris.com
RochesterNY
Joan Lewis
Desire to Aspire
www.xlibris.com
RochesterNY
VIRENDRA GUPTA
'THE UNKNOWN'
www.poetsinternational.com
MUMBAI
Joseph Alan Wachs
Petulance + Sloth
New YorkNY
Joseph S. Spence, Sr.
Trilogy Moments for the Mind, Body and Soul
http://www.amazon.com
BrookfieldWI
Bert Shaw
Pond Poems, Etcetera
BearsvilleNY
Lewis Kornfield
LXXXX Collected Poems
Fort WorthTX
William M. Head
The Music of Silence
www.xlibris.com
Pompton LakesNJ
Margaret N. York
Blue Rock Poems
BurnsvilleNE
Eleanor M. Imperato
Woman's Work
ManhassetNY
June Bowers
Bare Essences
SarasotaFL
Cheri L. Jones
Chains
www.cheriljones.com
AshevilleNC
Emma L. Haynes
Poems From the Heart
www.bbotw.com
North PoleAK
Lois Muehl
Dark/Light
www.lulu.com
Iowa CityIA
Nancy Rustici
Metaphors & Petit Fours
amazon.com
PawcatuckCT
Kelly P. Bookamer
Dear Dad- Life Through the Eyes of an Adult Child of an Alcoholic
www.llumina.com
Westhampton BeachNY
J. Cruickshank Muir
Tigers and Songbirds
TigersandSongbirds.com
GoletaCA
Joan McWilliams
The PeaceFinder: Riley McFee's Quest for World Peace
www.peacefinder.com
DenverCO
Karin Spitfire
Standing with Trees
IlluminatedSeaPress.com
BelfastME
Wanda St.Hilaire
Of Love ... Life ... and Journeys (Book 1)
http://www.wandasthilaire.com
Calgary
Dr. LaVerne Byrd Smith
Poems of Indignation Revisiting 20th Century Civil Rights and Black Awareness Movements
RichmondVA
Dr. LaVerne Byrd Smith
Poetry for Growing: Kindergarten through "Kollege"
RichmondVA
Kurt Lehovec
From Loneliness to Solitude
amazon.com
Los AngelesCA
Ray Clark Dickson
The Press Corps of Xanadu
www.iuniverse.com
San Luis ObispoCA
Martin Cobin
Search Sharer
LouisvilleCO
Michael Hare
Saratoga Lives
Saratoga SpringsNY
Nell Funderburk Wiser
Poems from the Shoebox
NashvilleTN
James P. Kain
Coming To My Senses
www.xlibris.com
Glen RiddlePA
Richard L. Boden
Have I Gone: Observations In Poetic Verse
www.amazon.com
WoodbridgeVA
Terrence Du Bignon
The Emerald Rose
www.xlibris.com
JacksonvilleFL
Tawsif Anam
She Has Surrendered To Slumber
www.tawsifanam.com
MadisonWI
James E. Tague
The Trochilus Bird
www.jamesetague.com
Drexel HillPA
Mark Marks
Hard Hunter, Deep Thinker
markmarks.net
MD21226
Ingrid Anselm
I'm Out There
http://outskirtspress.com/Imoutthere
KennesawGA
Vernon Frazer
Improvisations
www.amazon.com
Boynton BeachFlorida
Rasheité (RAE) Radcliff
Love and Change (the inevitable)
PeoriaIL
Andrea MacVicar
Tales of Zoftic
www.inspirationpress.org
Coral SpringsFL
Willie Jerome Johnson Jr.
A Man's Makeup
LanettAL
Sarah Gittens
Through Fire Ascend
www.xlibris.com
WhitebyOntario
Glenn K. Currie
In the Cat's Eye
www.snapscreenpress.com
ConcordNH
Steve Kennedy & Daw Guenther
The Fish Jumps Out Of The Moon: Haiku Of Charles F. Kennedy
www.amazon.com
AuroraCO
Robert R. Reldan
"Loss"
www.buybooksontheweb.com
TrentonNJ
Dayvaughn Jerome Mays/ Guston Alexander Owens Jr.
Can We Tell You
www.Iuniverse.com
AuroraCO
Marie A. Reilly
At Dusk: Poems
www.xlibris.com
Las CrucesNM
Barbara Rykard
Eclectic Soul
O'FallonIL
Aurelio Arley Sanchez
"Of a Dream Catcher"
www.lulu.com
ToméNM
Idyll Wilde
the lucia variations
www.lucia-variations.com
Berlin
Christina L. Ruotolo
The Butterfly Net (poetry collection)
www.xlibris.com
WintervilleNC
Peggy Heinrich
A Minefield of Etceteras
www.amazon.com
Santa CruzCA
Tara Branche
When Rose Colored Glasses Break
www.denovopub.com- company closed
SandstonVA
Lonnie E. Pruitt
Prayer Is Our Powder
www.outskirtspress.com
HoustonTX
Rick Mizuno
From The Heart Of A Man
www.rickmizuno.com
OxnardCA
J. Graham Ducker
Observations of Heart And Mind
www.grahamducker.com
OshawaOntario
Rose King Claibon
Poetry Potpourri: for Young People
MontgomeryAL
James Soular
The Thousand-Yard Stare
www.amazon.com
RalispellMT
David R. Duke Wellington
Tales By An English Paniolo
KauaiHI
Jewell Douglas
Daddy's Away
www.daddysaway.com
LexingtonKY
Melissa Irene Eights
Rehabilitation And Recovery Poetry And Short Stories
www.authorhouse.com
MiamiFlorida
Dennis Michael Parker
A Variety of Verse: The Rambling of a Frustrated Poet
www.xlibris.com
Del RioTX
Martha Biblesmith
Yet
DallasTX
Jesse M Arzate
Thoughts Pressed Between Pages
BakersfieldCA
Robin B. Butler
"Taking Heart"
www.buybooksontheweb.com
SyracuseNY
Paul Kiritsis
Fifty Confessions
www.amazon.com
MelbourneVictoria
Rita E. Bean
Life's Journey Through Poetry
PittsfieldMA
Alessandra Diridoni Grigsby
Every Stone In The River
www.amazon.com
HaywardCA
Ruth Kibler Peck
Rowing Through the Night
DaytonOH
Kenneth E. Warfel
A Fine Hotel
BellinghamWA
Paul Kiritsis
Origin: Poems from the crack of dawn
www.amazon.com
MelbourneVictoria
Paul L. Shriver
Earthbound
UnionvilleIN
Carolyn Lawrence
Saturine: A Collection of Poetry
www.amazon.com
EllijayGA
David G. (Gonzales)
"Expressions of Life" Unique Short Story Poems with a Lyrical twist
www.authorhouse.com
MercedCA
Harry E. Gilleland, Jr.
Poetic Musings of an Old, Fat Man
www.amazon.com
ShreveportLA
Paul L. Shriver
The Girl And The Cat
www.amazon.com
UnionvilleIN
Gail A. DeJohn
Windows of Grace
www.authorhouse.com
HolbrookAZ
Albert RUSSO
Gaytude
www.xlibris.com
Donald Cohen
Memory Man Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
www.mainstreetrag.com
WestonCT
Edwin E. Smith
One Stranger to Another
http://www.edwinesmith.com/Letters%20From%20Little%20Rock/
Little RockAR
Edwin E. Smith
Little Rock, 2005
http://www.edwinesmith.com/Letters%20From%20Little%20Rock/
Little RockAR
E. Lee Zhou
Semper Fidelis "Always Faithful" A Collection of Love Poems
ConcordCA
G. Mark LaFrancis
"In Their Boots: Poems Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones" Book One: Soldiers
http://www.booklocker.com/books/3784.html
NatchezMS
Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner
Pathways of Life
www.troubador.co.uk/matador
Vienna
Bernice W. Wilson
Moments In Time
http://www.authortree.com/bwilson.
HiramGA
MJ Warrender
Tell Me How This Is So
http://www.mjwarrender.com/order.php
ValenciaCA
Tommy M. Craig
Earth and Theory
www.wastelandpress.net
GaryIN
Bina Gupta
My Heart On My Sleeve
http://www.wordclay.com/BookStore/BookStoreBookDetails.aspx?bookid=47370
BrooklynNY
William Akin
Box of Secrets
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/box-of-secrets/5138213
Los AngelesCA
Hassine Saidane
Patterns of Body and Soul Connections
Authorhouse.com
San DiegoCA
D. B. Clark
Honoring My Belove-ed Brother
lulu.com
LynchburgVA
Yvonne Hampden
The Reacquaintance of Love
YonkersNew York
Bertha Venson
God Given Messages of Love
www.xlibris.com
ClevelandOH
Yvonne Hampden
A Woman's Lover
YonkersNew York
Connie Hunt
I Am A Flame
OjaiCA
Patrick Wallace
Love, Life & Living
DaytonOH
Teresa Lee Walker (T.L. Walker)
Tales of A World Gone Bad
www.talesofaworldgonebad.com
Washington DC
Donald Clark (D.B. Clark)
A Modern Mother Goose
lulu.com
LynchburgVA
Yelena Nudel
Peppered Love
MooseMoosePublishing.com
BrooklynNY
Emily McCormack
Connemara Twilight
WillowbrookIL
Kirk D. Yancey
When The Pathway Cries in Darkness
www.outskirtspress.com/yancey
Capitol HeightsMD
Dorothy Pollard Price
"Eight Stars Of Gold"
amazon.com
Moses LakeWA
Gedda Ilves
a view from within
Los AngelesCA
Shannon Kurtz
Peony in Adoration
www.shannonkurtz.com
LindenhurstIL
Margie Davidson
Winds Light and Variable
RichlandWA
Andrew J. Ball
Modern Love
www.lulu.com
GoodyearArizona
Beverly M. Collins
Quiet Observations
BurbankCA
Melanie Bercerra
Poems from My Beloved
SacramentoCA
Mary Jane Q Cross
"Poems of a Painter, Paintings of a Prayer"
www.lulu.com
NewportNH
Lois Kempton
Poems Sublime and Ridiculous, and Some In-Between
www.authorhouse.com
LoganOH
J.G. Woodward
Poems Beyond The Journey
www.invinciblepublishing.ws
AkronOH
AJ Bialo
The Reflection Tree
www.BN.com
SyracuseNY
Barbara Botch
Poet's Crossing
www.poetscrossing.com
HendersonNevada
Elizabeth Ludlam
Men in Armor
http://stores.lulu.com/ludlam
MelbourneFL