CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR  2009 POETRY CONTEST WINNERS GRAND PRIZE  William Landis "Empty Boat Tugging at Tomorrow" POEMS ABOUT CALIFORNIA First Prize, Maggie Morley, "Golden State" Second Prize, Gail Peterson, "Pelican Wings" Third Prize, Richard Alan Bunch, "Fort Ross at MidSummer" 1st HM: Jabez Churchill, "Spring, Anderson Valley"; 2nd HM: Connie Post, "Tree Sitters in Berkeley"; 3rd HM: Phil Phillips, "City Lights Voices"; 4th HM: Katy Brown, "The Passage of Small Cedar Boats"; 5th HM: Sherry Weaver Smith, "Self Storage" JOURNEYS First Prize, Ellaraine Lockie, "Wellspring" Second Prize, Lynn Hansen, "Two Sisters" Third Prize, Gail Peterson, "Cruising Russia" 1st HM: Sherry Weaver Smith, "A Crossing in Manilla"; 2nd HM: Jabez Churchill, "Pote/Never"; 3rd HM: Robert Aquinas McNally, "Physeter macrophalus"; 4th HM: Sherry Sheehan, "Returning"; 5th HM: Katherine Wilson, "Afternoon in Paris"   LOVE First Prize, Robert Martin, "Sunflower Seeds" Second Prize, William Landis, "The Circle on Edge is a Straight Line" Third Prize, Allegra Silberstein, "Magnolia Blossoms" 1st HM: Ed Bearden, "A Christmas Puzzle"; 2nd HM: Robert Eastwood, "Little Earl"; 3rd HM: Paul Drabkin, "Narcissus On Hold"; 4th HM: Evelyn Hardesty, "Passion"; 5th HM: Elsie Whitlow Feliz, "My Russian Grandparents Making Me A Satin Quilt"   MYSTERY First Prize, Lynn Hansen, "Autism" Second Prize, Stuart Dodds, "Magical Cat" Third Prize, Carol Frith, "The Woman in Urban Park" 1st HM: Robert Martin, "The Unseen Ear"; 2nd HM: Linda Prather, "No Name"; 3rd HM: William Landis, "The Son of Man in a Neat Red Tie"; 4th HM: Robert Aquinas McNally , "Columbia livia"; 5th HM: Frances Yordan, "Shuttered Vision"   NATURE First Prize, Robert Aquinas McNally, "Seizing Rainbows" Second Prize, Richard Alan Bunch, "Twilight" Third Prize, Ellaraine Lockie, "Encounters with Crows" 1st HM: Mary McCarthy, "Vernal Visit"; 2nd HM: Ed Coletti, "For Gary Snyder"; 3rd HM: Selma Calnan, "Air and Heirs"; 4th HM: Rose Black, "White Oak"; 5th HM: Al Averbach, "Kauai Day Drift"   WAR AND PEACE First Prize, Carol Frith, "Tail Gunner B-24" Second Prize, Jeanine Stevens, "The Weekly Reader" Third Prize, Jan Dederick, "Back from Iraq" 1st HM: Marie Ross, "Out of the Atmosphere"; 2nd HM: Ana Elsner, "Red and Blue"; 3rd HM: Julia Holzer, "Hate-breaking Weight"; 4th HM: Dave Douglas , "A Boy Sat Under a Tree"; 5th HM: Richard Carlander, "Casualties"   LOSS First Prize, David Anderson, "Dam the Yuba, Unbale the Hay" Second Prize, Andrena Zawinski, "It Was Then I Kissed Her" Third Prize, Peter Tamases, "Roses" 1st HM: Sherry Sheehan, "Driving in Rain"; 2nd HM: Chris Giovacchini, "Releasing Keith"; 3rd HM: Connie Post, "I Need to Make Something"; 4th HM: Jabez Churchill , "Nothing"; 5th HM: Norma King Green, "Our Garden"   POET'S CHOICE First Prize, Connie Post, "Flash Flood" Second Prize, Alice Kight, "A Matter of Course" Third Prize, Roby Newman, "The Presence in the Living Room" 1st HM: Diane Sherman, "Skid Marks"; 2nd HM: Stan Morner, "Simon Uroboros Ripley"; 3rd HM: Robert Eastwood, "Keats at 26 Piazza di Spagna"; 4th HM: Robert Shelby , "Toward Eudomonia"; 5th HM: Richard Carlander, "Getting a Smog Certificate at the Arco Station"