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The Love Poems Contest

The following are the final fifty poems selected for Running the Stop, the Leaf Press love poem anthology to be published Valentine's Day 2012.

The three poems winning $200.00 are:

"Lovers' Fugue" by Kit Pepper
"Rooting" by Leonard Neufeldt
"A Wild Girl to Walk the Weathers With" by Peter Trower

Many thanks to all who sent poems. It was wonderful to read them all. Marianne, Suzanne
and I very much appreciate your support of Leaf's publishing program.

Abby Wener Herlin
Alexandra Pasian
Ann Graham Walker
Anne Swannell
Berenice Gargus
Cynthia French
Daniela Elza
Dorothy Mahoney
Elley Shannon
Elsie K. Neufeld
Frances Boyle
Franci Louann
Heather Cardin
Heather Haley
Janet Vickers
Jocelyn Pitsch
John Beaton
Josie Andrews
Judith Heron
Jude Neale
Katy McCuish
Kit Pepper
Kevin Gillam
Leah Hokanson
Leanne Dunic
Leanne McIntosh
Lenore Rowntree
Leonard Neufeldt
Linda Crosfield
Lisa Pike Fiorindi
Lynda Grace Philippsen
Lynn Tait
Margaret Doyle
Margaret Rutley
Marie Groundwater
Marlene Grand Maitre
Mary Kim
Maureen Hynes
Meg Torwl
Michael Kleiza
Patricia Young
Peter Trower
Rachel Castor
Renee Saklikar
Robin Susanto
Sidney Bending
Susan Ioannou
Susan McCaslin
Vaughan Chapman
Wendy Donawa
Winona Baker

Viva la Vida
Mid-Marriage
Abbie
Chopper
Washing My Lover for Our Date
Honeymoon
Seven Years Later
Running the Stop
Smiley Face
1977-2011
Ill-Knit Heart
Half-Moon
Range of Motion
Voracious
Boy at the Park
that summer
My Vision
Blue Evening
Only Yes
The Affair
Lifetimes of Love
Lovers' Fugue
love
(untitled)
Chestnut
A Night Full of Talking
7 Austin Avenue, Toronto
Rooting
Cake
deliverance
Final Round

Spanish Lessons
Love in the Frozen Food Aisle
The War
Return to Romance
Point-Blank
Remedy
Sakura Hanami Aubade
Sheldon
Were I Her Lover
What Does Love Mean?
A Wild Girl to Walk the Weathers With
Ways of Knowing
First Friday in June
Shut up Love Me
Summer Swan
Long Love
Anniversary Sonnet
untitled love song
Spindrift
Long Time Married

 


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