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2007 Joy Harjo Poetry Competition Finalists
“Spindrift” Christopher Buckley, Lompoc, CA
“I Am Clothing This Poem in Skin” Andrea L. Watson, Taos, New Mexico
“Madonna With Child, Christmas Eve” Mary F. Morris, Washington, DC
“Translation of a Face-lift” Ellaraine Lockie, Sunnyvale, CA
“Spoon” Ellery Akers, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
“Tonight, In Our Room” Jonathan Harris, Tualatin, OR
“The Underworld” Melissa Kwasny, Jefferson City, MT
“Oh, Rose—His Dark Secret Love Does Thy Life Destroy” Rachel Dilworth, Gig
Harbor, WA
“What You Believed” Melody S. Gee, Lafayette, IN
“Occupation Dreamland” Sam Witt, Walla Walla, WA
“Almsgiving, Legend of Sheik Saleh Askary” Christi Kramer, Naples, Idaho
“A Crate of Oranges” Tana Jean Welch, Tallahassee, Florida
“fleshing shadows in manhattan montana” Rande Mack, Manhattan, MT
“Unrepeatable Poem” Christina Hutchins, Albany, CA
“The Leech Child” Julia Bouwsma, Strong, ME
“The World, After All, Is A Good and Gentle Place” Michael Blumenthal,
Norfolk, VA
“White-Lined Sphinx” Caroline Goodwin, Montara, CA
“The Fern Seed Addict” DeAnna Stephens Vaughn, Clarkrange,IN
“600 LB Marlin Eludes” Carolyn Creedon, Charlottesville, VA
“Taking Easter Back” Joan Mitchell, Santa Fe, NM
“Black Seed” Judith Montgomery, Bend, OR
“Gretl’s Return” Brynn Grumstrup Slate, Falls Church, VA
“Tattoos” Christine Turczyn, Rhinebeck, NY
“Green Reeds” Julie Coren, Los Angeles, CA
“Rain” Tara Bray, Grand Rapids, MI

2007 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Competition Finalists
“The Egg” Zach Falcon, Iowa City, Iowa
“Red Fez” Gail Chehab, San Diego, CA
“T. Bob Lead a Field Trip” Robert Masterson, Yonkers, New York
“Storm Watching” Elena Canavier Los Angeles, CA
“Escapement” Paul Michel Seattle, WA
“Snow Magic” Nin Andrews Poland, OH
“Shovel Therapy” Laurie Alberts, Westminister, VT
“One-Man Band” Rusty Harris, Simi Valley, CA
“Dogs Float Only After They’ve Been Dead Awhile” Timothy Rien,
Livermore, CA
“Returning” Ben Hawes, Mancos, CO
“Inside Letters” Gary Daimond, Duluth, MN
“Riceville, Summer, 1976” Catheryn Brown, Chicago, IL
“Baby Boy” Jane Manary Gallo, River Forest, IL
“Hidden Idaho” Nikki Nojima Louis, Seattle, WA
“Real Hard” Phyllis Peters, Rochester, NY
“Exit 544” E.M. Kuzara, Sheridan, WY
“Happy Sometimes” Aimee Loiselle, St. Paul, MN
“The Seventh Wonder” Bonnie Roop Bowles, Roanoke, VA
“The Dog” Terrence Cannon, Santa Monica, CA
“How It’s Silent When You’re Gone” Conor Robin Madigan, Evanston, IL
“Golden Years” Michael Schiavone, Gloucester, MA
2007 Joy Harjo Poetry Competition Semi-Finalists

“Fome Zero” Elizabeth Doud, Surfside, FL
“Kindling” Shawn Fawson, Salt Lake City, UT
“The Dragon and The Beasts Cast Into Hell”
Joyce Stephen, Chaska, MN
“Offering” Daniel Grace Warren, New York, NY
“All the Ways You Know to Love Us”
“Serenity of If”
“The Memory of Water” Allison Smythe,
Rockport, MO
“Hovenweep” Robert Hill Long, State College, PA
“Making Peace” Jon Kelly, Moscow, ID
“Days of August” Don Schofield,
Thessoloniki, Greece
“Imagining” Nancy Takacs, Wellington, UT
“Where I Lie” Melody S. Gee, Lafayette, IN
“A Lacework that has Unraveled, "The Bitter Bark
of Trees” Miriam Greenburg, Austin, TX
“The Pathos of the Golden Toad” Howard W.
Robertson, Eugene, OR
“Proverb of Fatima”
“The Three Births of Erichtonius”
“Dismembering”
“The Only Ones” M.B. Powell, Olympia, WA
2007 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Competition Semi- Finalists


“Kurt’s Annie” Midge Raymond, San Diego, CA
“Samantha Looks at Sailors” Ali Sherwin, San         Jose, CA
“Childproof” Jackie Shannon-Hollis, Aloha, OR
“Laundromat” Camille Perri, East Meadows, NY
“Jeff Kass, Ann Arbor, MI
“Baptism” James Gish, Arcanum, OH
Untitled, Tom Byrne, Durango, CO
“Philly” Daryl J. Murphy, Chicago, IL
“Rope A Dope” Francis Davis, Lincoln, NE
“Been Meaning to Say” Amina Gautier, University       City, MO
“Stumbling Over Memories” Cleda Hedrich, Bonita          Springs, FL