Highlights from our Previous Spring Flings
The 2021 Spring Fling Members-Only Poetry Contest winners are:
First Place Poem: Gail Denham, Mama's Voice
Second Place Poem: Linda Eaton, Recollection
Third Place Poem: Rachel Wright, Interval
Honorable Mention 1: Jenquia Jamison, Here
Honorable Mention 2: Mary Couch, Serenity's Home
Honorable Mention 3: Beverly Stanislawski, Quietude
The theme was ekphrastic poetry.
Congratulations to all our winners!
The 2021 contest included a PSI Members-only artwork competition, the winning piece (below) was used by our PSI Members for their Spring Fling poetry contest entries.
Ekphrastic poems explore, engage with, and describe a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. 2021 was the first year we've asked our PSI members to submit artwork images to be considered as inspiration for our annual Spring Fling poetry contest. We received 12 entries from our talented members! The winning piece of artwork for the Ekphrastic inspiration for our PSI members is the photograph titled Serenity by Sandra J. Nantais.
First Place Poem: Gail Denham, Mama's Voice
Second Place Poem: Linda Eaton, Recollection
Third Place Poem: Rachel Wright, Interval
Honorable Mention 1: Jenquia Jamison, Here
Honorable Mention 2: Mary Couch, Serenity's Home
Honorable Mention 3: Beverly Stanislawski, Quietude
The theme was ekphrastic poetry.
Congratulations to all our winners!
The 2021 contest included a PSI Members-only artwork competition, the winning piece (below) was used by our PSI Members for their Spring Fling poetry contest entries.
Ekphrastic poems explore, engage with, and describe a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. 2021 was the first year we've asked our PSI members to submit artwork images to be considered as inspiration for our annual Spring Fling poetry contest. We received 12 entries from our talented members! The winning piece of artwork for the Ekphrastic inspiration for our PSI members is the photograph titled Serenity by Sandra J. Nantais.
2020 Spring Fling was a virtual event due to COVID-19.
202o's Alt-Spring Fling Facebook event featured:
Given concerns about the coronavirus and the closure of our reserved venue, Poetry Society of Indiana wisely decided to cancel our in-person Spring Fling April 25, 2020. However, we met online! As Premier Poet, Sarah E. Morin invited everyone to an online poetry gathering on April 25, from 1:30-3pm. This event was held entirely on Facebook, so there was no chance of catching anything but creative enthusiasm. It wasn't meant to replace Spring Fling, which is a wonderful all-day in-person event that cannot be fully captured online, but it provided us with a shorter, fun way to celebrate poetry until the next time we can gather in person.
The arts and our artistic community have a wonderful power to help us cope with stressful and uncertain times. PSI is so grateful to members like Sarah E. for creating innovative ways for us to come together and lift each other's spirits during COVID-19.
The arts and our artistic community have a wonderful power to help us cope with stressful and uncertain times. PSI is so grateful to members like Sarah E. for creating innovative ways for us to come together and lift each other's spirits during COVID-19.
Poetry Society of Indiana
Members Only
2020 Spring Fling Poetry Contest
I (Sarah E. Morin, Premier Poet) was honored to judge the 2020 Spring Fling Members-Only Contest. First, thank you to chair, Nancy Simmonds. Nancy introduced us to the Golden Shovel poetry form with a workshop last year. Thank you also to N.I. POETS Club for sponsoring our prizes - $30 for 1st place, $20 for 2nd place, and $10 for 3rd place.
The contest challenged members to write a Golden Shovel using a line from William Wordsworth's “Daffodils”. All judging was blind.
WINNERS
1st Deborah Petersen – “You, Young Daughter”
2nd Dennis White – “Gossamer Dreams”
3rd George Wylie – “Daffodils”
1HM Beverly Stanislawski – “Cloud Dreams”
2HM Joyce Zephyrin – “Expanding Joy”
3HM Joe Ottinger – “Maidens of Spring”
CONGRATULATIONS!
The contest challenged members to write a Golden Shovel using a line from William Wordsworth's “Daffodils”. All judging was blind.
WINNERS
1st Deborah Petersen – “You, Young Daughter”
2nd Dennis White – “Gossamer Dreams”
3rd George Wylie – “Daffodils”
1HM Beverly Stanislawski – “Cloud Dreams”
2HM Joyce Zephyrin – “Expanding Joy”
3HM Joe Ottinger – “Maidens of Spring”
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats, 2019 Spring Fling Contest Winners!
1st – Mary Couch – Indiana Spring or Mother Nature’s Joke
2nd - Alexandria Moss Zannis – A Preference of Bedding
3rd – Ann W Borger – Indiana Spring
1 HM – David Allen – Indiana Spring
2 HM – Alys Caviness-Gober – Indiana Spring
3 HM – Dennis L. White – Spring in the Crossroads
2nd - Alexandria Moss Zannis – A Preference of Bedding
3rd – Ann W Borger – Indiana Spring
1 HM – David Allen – Indiana Spring
2 HM – Alys Caviness-Gober – Indiana Spring
3 HM – Dennis L. White – Spring in the Crossroads
(from left) Judge Michael Erdelen, winners Dennis White, Alys Caviness-Gober, Mary Couch, David Allen
Our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Winners will be included in a future PSI publication.
Our "Gemstones of Poetry and History" 2016 Spring Meet is over, but you can see the highlights here!
N.I. POETS hosted a lovely Spring Meet on May 14, 2016, at Fox Island County Park in Fort Wayne. Poets from around the state gathered to elect officers, take workshops, learn about our state's history for Indiana's Bicentennial, and mainly, be inspired by each other's company and art!
