PHoToS By: ELLEN GAiLiNG PHoToGRAPHy Richmond Writes! Poetry Contest Announces Winners Richmond Writes! Poetry Contest winners have been selected for 2015. The contest, conceived of by the Richmond Arts & Culture Commission (RACC) as a way to celebrate National Poetry Month, is in its fifth year. Students from fourteen elementary, middle, and high schools in Richmond submitted both haiku and short poems. This year’s theme was Poetry in Motion and students wrote nearly 600 poems about it. The world is in motion, always moving and changing. They found motion in events, time, seasons, physical movements and activities, travel, music, and more. Students from fourteen schools submitted nearly 600 poems this year! Poetry was judged by an eight-member selection panel: Susan Antolin, Lincoln Bergman, Donte by michele seville Clark, Brenda Quintanilla, Maryann Maslan, Susan Anderson, Steve Early, and Connie Van Guilder. Three of them are Richmond’s own Poets Laureate (Quintanilla, Clark and Bergman); Antolin is a member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California; early is a published writer; Van Guilder is a professor and Liberal Studies Chair at JFK University in Pleasant Hill; and Maslan and Anderson are both commissioners on the Richmond Arts & Culture Commission. Judges reviewed the contest entries in teams of two, picking favorites together in their packets. This method allowed for discussion and compromise, yet still accommodated individual taste. Poetry, for both the writer and the reader, is extremely subjective, and the judges made a point of honoring that in their final selections. 58 MARKETPLACEcontrac osta .com june 2015
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