First Prize
Michale Saucier
DeQuincy, LA
Black Flag to the Rescue

Second Prize
Judith Clark
Bedford Hills, NY
To Vladimir Mayakofsky

Third Prize (tie)
James Dresden
Canon City, CO
Flies

Lance E. Fleming
Represa, CA
Ordinary Pain

Honorable Mentions
James C. Plumpton
Woodstock, VT
On the Way to Phu Bai

Tom Manning
Marion, IL
East Boston

James Jennings
Seagoville, TX
Still Life Scenery

Steven Wayne Anderson
San Quentin, CA
Beyond All Seasons Passing

First Prize
Jon Robert Williams
Douglas, AZ
Battle on the Border: Killing Field in the Drug Corridor

Second Prize
John P. Springs III
Trenton, NJ
Hopmeless: The Illusion of Reality

Third Prize
O’Neil Stough
Florence, AZ
Cruel and Quite Unusual

Honorable Mentions
John Rich
Pendleton, IN
R.D.C.

Victor hassine
Bellefonte, PA
The Man Who Didn’t Do It

Leslie Rodgers
Napanoch, NY
The Paradox of Individualism and the Meaning of Life: A Rhetoric of Self

Charles P. Norman
Indiantown, FL
Too Painful to Change

First Prize
Stephen Mazzeo and Scott K. Smith
Douglas, AZ
Victims?

Second Prize
William Eric Waters
Beacon, NY
We Never Talk About the Past

Third Prize
Lance E. Fleming
Represa, CA
The Tao of Darkness

Award Winner
John L. Orr
San Pedro, CA
Cattin Around at TI

First Prize
J.C. Amberchele
Boulder, CO
Mel

Second Prize
Susan Rosenberg
Marianna, FL
Lee's Time

Third Prize (tie)
Daniel Rosebloom
Worcester, NY
The Night the Owl Interrupted

Steven Broderson
Jarratt, VA
Incident at Billfish

Honorable Mentions
John L. Orr
San Pedro, CA
Running Springs

Charlie W. Pyle
Folsom, CA
The Martyr's Legend

Roy Dupur
Seagoville, TX
A Hero Returns From Southern Italy

Jon M. Taylor
Pendleton, IN
Funeral in the Land Where the Sky is Never Blue