Washington Poets Association's 2005 Awards Presentation Made Saturday, April 2, 2005 at Seattle's Frye Art Museum

All poets who received recognition in the 2005 WPA's four adult contests; the William Stafford Award, the Carlin Aden Award (form), the Charlie Proctor Award (humor), and the Francine Porad Award (haiku) were invited to read their poems at Seattle's Frye Art Museum this past April 2. The four judges introduced the winners and read as well. Admission was free, and it was a great afternoon of poetry.

Congratulations to our 2005 winners!

William Stafford Award
Judge: Martha Silano

First: David Gravender, Seattle, WA
Second: Kelli Russell Agodon, Kingston, WA
Third: Serafina Strickland, Langley, WA
HM: Martha Clarkson, Kirkland, WA
HM: Sally Albiso, Port Angeles, WA
HM: Jeannette Allee, Seattle, WA

Carlin Aden Award (form)
Judge: Marian Blue

First: Kelli Russell Agodon, Kingston, WA
Second: Ann Gerike, Coupeville, WA
Third: Ed Weathers, Blacksburg, VA
HM: Carol Kanter, Evanston, IL
HM: Patricia J. North, Clinton, WA
HM: Catherine Moran, Little Rock, AR

Charlie Proctor Award (humor)
Judge: Terry Martin

First: James Rodgers, Pacific, WA
Second: Susan J. Erickson, Bellingham, WA
Third: James Brewbaker, Columbus, GA
HM: Lyn Sedwick, Orlando, FL
HM: Gordon Bainbridge, Greenbank, WA
HM: James Rodgers, Pacific, WA

Francine Porad Award (haiku)
Judge: Christopher Herold

First: Ernest J. Berry, Picton, New Zealand
Second: Scott Mason, Chappaqua, NY
Third: an'ya, Crescent, OR
HM: Tracy Koretsky, Berkeley, CA
HM: Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, IA
HM: Ernest J. Berry, Picton, New Zealand
HM: Scott Mason, Chappaqua, NY

~ About the judges judges:

Martha Silano is the author of What the Truth Tastes Like, winner of the 1999 William & Kingman Page Award from Nightshade Press. Martha's work also appears widely both in print and online magazines, including Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bellingham Review, Crossconnect, Poetry Daily, Green Mountains Review, Verse, and River Styx, and in many anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon 2000). A writing fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Arizona Poetry Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Martha has taught English and creative writing at the college level since 1994.

Marian Blue's essays, fiction, interviews and poetry have been appearing in newspapers, magazines and books for thirty years; her editorial work also includes book, magazine, online and newspaper experience. She currently lives and writes on Whidbey Island where she is partner in Blue & Ude Writers Services and also teaches for Whidbey Island Writers Association, Skagit Valley College and Writers Digest.

An English Professor at Central Washington University, Terry Martin was named 2003 CASE/Carnegie Washington Professor of the Year for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Her writing has appeared in over eighty publications, including Calyx, Rattle, English Journal, The Sun, Manzanita Quarterly, and Sow's Ear Review. Wishboats, her book of poems published by Blue Begonia Press, won the Judges' Choice Award at Seattle's Bumbershoot Bookfair, 2000.

Christopher Herold is a lay Zen Buddhist monk. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife, Carol O'Dell. He has been writing haiku since 1968 and is widely published. He has twice won the Haiku Society of America's Museum of Haiku Literature Award. A past president of the Haiku Poets of Northern California, he was a co-editor of their quarterly journal, Woodnotes. Christopher has also edited anthologies produced by Two Autumns Press and was the soliciting editor for a series of essays entitled The Art of Haiku for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of the United States and Canada. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of The Heron's Nest, a highly regarded monthly journal of English language haiku since 1999.

For more information about the Frye, visit www.fryeart.org
For more information about the WPA, visit www.washingtonpoets.org

Questions on the Adult Contests? Contact:
Lorri Lambert-Smith
Contest Chair
lambertsmith@yahoo.com