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  • Tennessee Voices 2024-2025 Now Available

    Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2024-2025, Poetry Society of Tennessee’s anthology of winning and selected poems from the past program year, is now available for purchase.

    Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2024-2025: An anthology of winning and other selected poems features Poetry Society of Tennessee members and other poets from across Tennessee and beyond.

    About Tennessee Voices

    PST publishes an anthology annually. This edition features results and winning poems for the 2024-2025 membership year: monthly members-only contests, PST’s annual poetry festival contests, student, and collegiate competitions with other selected poems.

    About our Poets

    Tennessee Voices Anthology includes first-time published poets and award-winning authors. The collection features a variety of subjects and poetic forms. Within the 105 page anthology you will discover the poetry of writers ranging from elementary school age to octogenarian, many of them members of the society.

    About our Cover Art

    The work of Dorothy Chen, a student at Vanderbilt University and winner of the inaugural Tennessee Visions Cover Art Contest, appears on this year’s front cover. Her work reflects the cohesiveness of Tennessee, from city to nature and from home to public space. The work of Cynthia Storrs, second place contest winner, appears on the back cover.

    Other Publications

    Earlier editions of Tennessee Voices are also available. Learn more. You can also find the work of individual member poets at our bookstore, a directory of member poets’ selected works.

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  • Opportunities Abound: October Roundup

    This month’s roundup includes various opportunities brought to our attention by various organizations, members, and friends others discovered organically. (Be sure to scroll down to our events section for a great fall line-up!) Grow your skills, find submissions opportunities, and more!


    OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER 30

    Southern Journals

    Susurrus is “a literary arts magazine of the American South,” and currently open for submissions through November 30, 2025.

    The Cumberland River Review is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Appalachian Review is a respected and proven journal based at Berea College.

    Porchlight is a new journal out of Perry County, Tennessee, and is led by Dr. Randy Mackin.

    Always Open

    Hate deadlines? Here are a few randomly selected literary venues that are always (or almost always) open to submissions:

    More Calls and Contests

    Events

    • Open Mic – October 23, 2025, 6-8 p.m., Turntable Coffee Counter, 300 E Main Street, Jackson TN. RSVP (731) 298-0109. Sponsored by Indivisible Jackson.
    • Writing Rural America: a public conversation with Appalachian authors David Joy, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson & Karen Spears Zacharias will be held Oct 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Blount County Public Library on 508 N. Cusick Street in Maryville, Tennessee. 

    Take your poetry off the page at an open mic! You’ll find them across the state and in the virtual realm:

    WEST
    • Monday nights 7:00 pm at the Hu Hotel rooftop with Keeping it P (and the P is for poetry). Follow them on instagram.
    • Third Saturday of each month 3:00 pm at Coffee Central, 5627 Getwell Rd. Southaven, MS 38672: Bring original poetry or short prose (3 minutes) to share with other poets and poetry lovers. Good listeners are also welcome.To encourage young children, we would like to hear them read anything they write or just read their favorite poem. We do not censor any social, political, religious, or philosophical viewpoint. We do ask, when it comes to graphic content and profanity, remember that Coffee Central is one of our most gracious sponsors and we should not and will not offend other customers or negatively affect business.
    MIDDLE

    Poetry in the Boro is a monthly open mic and featured reading series hosted in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, currently held at the Dapper Owl Coffee Pub & Bakery and at many other locations when collaborating with other organizations in the community. Often meet the second or third Sunday evening of each month but dates can vary, especially when partnering with other organizations and groups. Get details.

    MIDEAST

    Sawmill Poetry is a poetry reading and open mic held at the ​The Plenty Bookstore in Cookeville, Tennessee. Get details.

    SOUTHEAST
    • Rhyme n Chatt Interactive Poetry Group, based in Chattanooga, hosts an Open Mic at the Edney Innovation Center at 7:00 PM on the third Thursday evening of each month. It is called Fresh Out the Shoebox. The also hold workshops and performance events with a focus on performance poetry. See the website for more information.  Get details. 
    • 7:30 pm last Fridays (except for November and December) at Barnes & Noble at 2100 Hamilton Place Boulevard in Chattanooga.
    •  The Wandering Poetry Circle meets every other Tuesday Night at WanderLinger Brewing Company,  https://www.wanderlinger.com/
    EAST *NEW*
    • Third Thursdays at The Maker’s Space, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM in Knoxville, TN. Former Knoxville Poet Laureate Rhea Carmon hosts.
    • Writing Rural America: a public conversation with Appalachian authors David Joy, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson & Karen Spears Zacharias. Oct 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Blount County Public Library 508 N. Cusick Street in Maryville, Tennessee. 
    • Curated Poetry Night: Nov. 7, 7:00 p.m. at Southland Book’s The Bird and the Book, 1509 E Broadway Ave, Maryville, TN 37804
    NORTHEAST
    VIRTUAL

    Last Monday of the month, 7:00 pm Poetry Pie shares poetry on Zoom (max three poems). Contact the society to get on the email list.

    Are we missing an open mic in Tennessee? Let us know!

    Workshops

    Červená Barva Press Literary Summit October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2025 — Register today! $82.00 for 12 videos. The videos will be on YouTube Unlisted for Attendees to watch during our 3-day summit. Attendees will have 2 weeks to watch all the videos. PST member John C Mannone will be leading one of the sessions.

    • MTSU’s 2025 conference theme is Weaving Hope and will feature classes and presentations that will invite you to write both toward hope. This year’s conference will take place Friday, November 7 (virtual) and Saturday, November 8 (on MTSU’s campus).
    • Tennessee Mountain Writers Jumpstart XXVI is open for registration! The event will be held Saturday – Sunday, January 17-18, 2026, in Oak Ridge. Poetry and Fiction tracks available.
    • The Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative offers programs related to literature and creative writing at ETSU
    • Shuly Cawood virtual generative and craft-focused writing workshops
    • John Davis Jr. “Metacreativity: The Process Behind the Poetry” mail-based tips and insights
    • Young Creative Writers Workshop (all ages welcome), October 25. Download flyer:
    Young Writers WorkshopDownload

    On Demand

    Find More Opportunities

    Introducing a running list of venues to find poetry opportunities. Are we missing a good one? Let us know!

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  • New: Instars from Deborah Zenha Adams

    Deborah Zenha Adams’ latest poetry chapbook, Instars (dancing girl press and studio), is now available for purchase.

    About Instars

    Instars contains poems that chronicle a woman’s emotional life-stages, from the optimism of youth, through the glimpses of reality we see in our early adult years, the sometimes-crushing turmoil of midlife, and the topsy-turvy insights gained as we enter maturity. The 20-poem collection ends with a stage Deborah today thinks of as ‘wisdom age,’ noting “ten years on, I may laugh at that.”

    Praise for Instars

    Reading Deborah-Zenha Adam’s poems felt like being told secrets filled with wisdom, learned and gained from a lifetime of lessons, such as this: “I tell you now: never // trust the logic of a story // moving always forward” and “the storm is always coming, and the // truth lives in the wind.” These poems look back and understand the world’s intricacies in a whole new way, with a greater depth: “sacrificing // things we’d rather not, learning the art // of trade-off.” The collection offers truths—“I am an illusion”—and asks unanswerable questions, just as this life does. Magic and myth and prophesy thread their way through this book, and what becomes bound is strength, fortitude, and a new kind of enlightenment—hard-won and certain.—Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough: poems

    “Instars,” a new collection of poems by Deborah-Zenha Adams, is governed by a metaphor – the phases insects undergo as they pass, molting and transforming along the way, from egg to adult. At the end of their journey, they join the natural world to live out their earthly existences.
    Following the same kind of thematic arc, this book takes the reader on a journey of poems that reveal the fragility and uncertainties of human life, often with metaphorical, quasi-allegorical renderings of experience. The variety of poems, in form and content, makes this journey rich, layered, and thought-provoking. And of her many strengths as a poet, the most important is her strong, surprising, but spot-on closures. “Instars” clearly expresses an existential acceptance of what is, with no whining along the way, no talk of destiny and fate, but with the clear sense that changes and transformations are not only right, but inevitable and natural.—Malcolm Glass, author of Her Infinite Variety (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

    Instars (dancing girl press and studio), is now available for pre-order.

    About the Author

    Deborah-Zenha Adams is an award-winning author of novels, short fiction, CNF, and poetry, and served as executive editor of Oconee Spirit Press for ten years. You are invited to visit her website to read samples of her work. www.Deborah-Adams.com

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  • Members Featured in Had I a Dove & More

    Had I a Dove (Redhawk Publications) features 80 Appalachian poets responding to the Hurricane Helene Flood of September 2024. Proceeds from the book will support Hurricane Helene relief efforts, offering both art and tangible aid to those most affected.

    We are pleased to share that the voices of society members Danita Dodson, Patricia Hope, and Sherry Poff, are included in this moving collection, now available.

    Had I a Dove is available for purchase here.

    More Anthologies Featuring Members

    Our members are also featured in

    • Sunflowers Rising, an anthology featuring poems for peace from 170 poets based in Ukraine, the United States, and elsewhere. All proceeds from this book support Ukranian orphanages.
    • Encore 2025, an anthology featuring the top 150 winning poems of 6,000 entries in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies’ 2025 contests.
    • Tennessee Voices Anthology. For more than 60 years, the society has been publishing collections of winning and selected poems from the society’s contests, calls, and invitations. Look for the 2024-2025 edition in early fall 2025. Earlier volumes are available now.
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    Member Chapbooks & Collections

    Discover our members and their poetry offerings in our bookstore directory.

    These are just the most recent releases from our member authors.

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  • New: Nameless as the Minnows from Connie Jordan Green

    Connie Jordan Greene’s latest poetry collection, Nameless as the Minnows (Madville Publishing), is now available for purchase.

    About Nameless as the Minnows

    In this collection, poems move through an early consideration of one’s yet unrealized self being washed toward a faceless future, into an exploration of growth and resilience through family and loss, and farther into the miracles of forming a new family and finding one’s true name among the wonders of the natural world, culminating in the spirit yet reaching toward the stars, the universe, still questioning the unknowable and praising “the small rituals of becoming and being.”

    Praise for Nameless as the Minnows

    In Nameless as the Minnows, Connie Jordan Green’s throaty verse illuminates the grit and unflinching spirit of rural America, each carefully crafted line skillfully depicting the power of family and the pride and comfort that can be drawn from the people and places we call home.—Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate, author of Dirt Songs

    Connie Jordan Green’s voice is that of a soul at peace, sharpened by a mind conditioned, out of necessity, to look at absence, loss, deprivation, or need and then to get busy doing the hard work of wrestling blessing from—and offering blessing for—this unkempt, unquenchable, sometimes dwindling, often unbearable, always sacred space we share.—Jeff Hardin, author of Watermark and A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being

    Nameless as the Minnows (Madville Publishing), is now available for purchase.

    About the Author

    Connie Jordan Green is the author of novels for young people, poetry chapbooks and collections, and a personal newspaper column that ran for more than 42 years. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of awards for her writing including induction into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, a Tribute to the Arts Award from the Oak Ridge Arts Council, and inclusion in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (Univ Press of Kentucky, 2003). She taught creative writing for the University of Tennessee and continues to teach at various workshops.

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  • October 2025 Program with Valencia Robin

    THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SINGING

    Join us in October with award winning poet Valencia Robin for an engaging 1-hour workshop in which she unpacks poetry’s two major traditions: the lyric and narrative poem. In this workshop, we’ll go beyond defining these two types of poems to demonstrating their differences as well as the necessary conditions for writing one rather than the other. After discussing various examples, participants will be given a prompt to get them writing. We’ll save time for sharing and discussion at the end.

    MEETING INFORMATION

    This program will be presented at our upcoming PST meeting, to be held October 11, 2025, from 2:00-4:00pm Eastern / 1:00-3:00 pm Central via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.

    ABOUT THE PRESENTER

    Valencia Robin is the author of Lost Cities (August 2025) and Ridiculous Light, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was named one of Library Journal’s best poetry books of 2019. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and podcasts including The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Poetry Daily, Poetry Unbound Podcast and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Emily Clark Balch Prize. A painter as well as a poet, Robin has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan. She currently teaches at East Tennessee State University.

    Meeting Information

    This program will be presented at our upcoming PST meeting, to be held October 11, 2025, from 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern / 1:00-3:00 pm Central via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.

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  • Flexing into the Future

    As we transition into fall, the landscape is changing—invigorating color and breeze will soon charge the atmosphere. Within our society, membership growth and a colorful canopy of educational programs, poetry books, public readings and other events invigorate our society and our poetry communities across the state and beyond. It seems each month, we learn about new ways and places poets are publishing, presenting, and coming together in the practice of poetry.

    Let me start with a couple of events featuring our members:

    • On September 30, members Connie Jordan Green and Natalie Kimbell will present during convocation at Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens, Tennessee. Regional Connections Committee Director Claudia Stanek will facilitate a Q&A, and Southeast Regional Rep Ray Zimmerman will also attend. Many thanks to our regional reps for their efforts. If you are in or near the area, I invite you to attend. (See our latest blog roundup for details about these events.)
    • In Knoxville, Linda Parsons will lead a Fall Poetry Workshop Oct 10 from 1:00-2:30 p.m.  at the Halls Library Branch in her capacity as Knoxville’s Poet Laureate. Get her schedule here.

    As our society grows and we move forward, we understand more than ever the need to flex into our future. This summer, we asked you to share opinions about our society. Our Board of Directors appreciate your candid responses which on the whole were quite positive (thank you for your vote of confidence!). Your insights are already leading to action:

    • You now can enjoy a year of membership from the date you join rather than based on our program/fiscal year.
    • We have begun exploring balanced and manageable options to run contests and submission calls across our membership and beyond to enhance representation of our members and poetic styles. We will also consider your input regarding contest content and guidelines.
    • We will continue to promote member publications, from individual works to books, along with workshops or other events in which a member may be featured. (Did you know? If you’ve got a poetry event and you’re on Facebook, you can post directly to our Facebook page to promote it!)
    • We will continue to share opportunities such as submission calls, workshops, and events across our state and within regions. Check out our latest roundup here.
    • We are working to expand our knowledge base of regional happenings, and we thank all of you who have shared new opportunities! You can always send us updates for our roundup and add opportunities as comments to the blog!
    • We will continue to focus not only on our member poets but our future generations of poets through student outreach. We thank Seth Grindstaff for his several years of service as Student Contest chair and thank DeAnna Stephens for chairing our student contest this year. We also thank Jake Lawson and Fred Tudiver for co-chairing our collegiate contest this year.
    • We will work to better connect people within regions. Our website now lists our members by region. Check it out! (Please let us know if you find an error or omission.)

    For more information on all we have to offer, peruse our website, monthly newsletters, social media (@poetrysocietyoftennessee on Facebook and Instagram), or reach out to poetrytennessee@gmail.com.

    Now is always a good time to join us! And between now and October 14, you can enjoy our $25 membership fee, which increases to $35 on October 15, 2025. Find membership information here (online & mail options available).

    Next up for our monthly members-only contests is a villanelle, sponsored by KB Ballentine. Brush off those prompts from our villanelle workshop and polish them, create a new one, or pull a completed one still needing a publication home. Entries accepted October 1 through 15. Get contest details here.

    Earlier this month, Thomas Alan Holmes led members through an invigorating presentation on the lyrical I. On October 11, Valencia Robbins invites us to explore aspects of lyrical and narrative poetry.

    The Anthology Editorial Board is nearly done creating Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2024-2025. The team took on some new effort this year, like more contests and biographies for our authors; as I write, the final touches are being made. We currently expect an early fall launch.

    We are always looking for volunteers to support our mission. (We promise, inquiries are not expectations for a commitment.) Current, specific needs include regional connections committee reps and helpers, communications, and miscellaneous support based on interests and skills to help your President out. Contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com to learn more.

    Curious about PST? Join us at a meeting or other activity. Reach out anytime. I hope to see you soon at an event—in person or virtual.

    With gratitude and excitement—
    Lisa Kamolnick
    President, Poetry Society of Tennessee

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  • Submissions Open for the 2025 Tennessee Collegiate Poetry Contest

    Submissions Open for the 2025 Tennessee Collegiate Poetry Contest

    Poetry Society of Tennessee’s Tennessee Collegiate Poetry Contest is open for submissions now through November 1, 2025. We seek poems that reflect the diversity of Tennessee. Whether you’re a transplant or a life-long resident—we want to see work that gives a glimpse into a perspective cultivated from living in our beautiful state. All themes, forms, and styles of poetry are welcome! The contest is FREE to enter, and the top three winners will receive monetary prizes and be published in Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2025-2026.

    About the Contest

    The contest will be judged blind. We will pick three poems that showcase the best our state has to offer. Winners will receive monetary prizes—$100 for 1st prize, $50 for 2nd, and $25 for third—and be published in Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2025-2026. Winners will be announced December 2025.

    Who Can Enter?

    We invite college students of all levels attending a Tennessee-based college or university to enter.

    What to Enter

    Send us one poem: your best original, unpublished work that captures Tennessee from your unique perspective. Simultaneous submissions are ok.

    While all themes, forms, and styles are welcome, we cannot accept explicitly violent or sexual content for our contests. There are no line limits for entries; however, poems exceeding two pages in print are less likely to be selected for our anthology.

    How to Enter

    This contest is FREE to enter. Follow our submission guidelines and enter our free contest by Saturday, November 1, 2025. Get detailed rules and guidelines.

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  • Opportunities Abound: September Roundup

    This month’s roundup includes various opportunities brought to our attention by various organizations, members, and friends others discovered organically. (Be sure to scroll down to our events section for a great fall line-up!) Grow your skills, find submissions opportunities, and more!

    Submissions Closing Soon!

    More Calls

    Always Open

    Hate deadlines? Here are a few randomly selected literary venues that are always (or almost always) open to submissions:

    More Calls and Contests

    Events

    In the southeast region, “Eyes and Ears to the World: The Writer as Witness and Chronicler” will be the topic at Tennessee Wesleyan University’s convocation on September 30, featuring society members Natalie Kimbell and Connie Jordan Green. The two will read from their poetry collections and engage in a moderated conversation on their experiences and growth as writers. Regional Connections Director Claudia Stanek and Southeast Regional Rep Ray Zimmerman will also attend the event. (see details slide show below.)

    In the northeast region, East Tennessee State University hosts poet Li Young Lee on September 24, 2025. Get details. Check out their other literary events coming up as well. Also in the northeast region, member Heidi Ehle presents a reading and musical event on September 16 in Jonesborough, TN. (Details for all in the slide show below.)

    Also in this region, Writing Rural America: a public conversation with Appalachian authors David Joy, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson & Karen Spears Zacharias will be held Oct 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Blount County Public Library on 508 N. Cusick Street in Maryville, Tennessee. 

    • Tennessee Wesleyan event with Poetry Society of Tennessee

    Take your poetry off the page at an open mic! You’ll find them across the state and in the virtual realm:

    WEST
    • Monday nights 7:00 pm at the Hu Hotel rooftop with Keeping it P (and the P is for poetry). Follow them on instagram.
    • Third Saturday of each month 3:00 pm at Coffee Central, 5627 Getwell Rd. Southaven, MS 38672: Bring original poetry or short prose (3 minutes) to share with other poets and poetry lovers. Good listeners are also welcome.To encourage young children, we would like to hear them read anything they write or just read their favorite poem. We do not censor any social, political, religious, or philosophical viewpoint. We do ask, when it comes to graphic content and profanity, remember that Coffee Central is one of our most gracious sponsors and we should not and will not offend other customers or negatively affect business.
    MIDDLE

    Poetry in the Boro is a monthly open mic and featured reading series hosted in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, currently held at the Dapper Owl Coffee Pub & Bakery and at many other locations when collaborating with other organizations in the community. Often meet the second or third Sunday evening of each month but dates can vary, especially when partnering with other organizations and groups. Get details.

    MIDEAST

    Sawmill Poetry is a poetry reading and open mic held at the ​The Plenty Bookstore in Cookesville, Tennessee. Get details.

    SOUTHEAST
    • Rhyme n Chatt Interactive Poetry Group, based in Chattanooga, hosts an Open Mic at the Edney Innovation Center at 7:00 PM on the third Thursday evening of each month. It is called Fresh Out the Shoebox. The also hold workshops and performance events with a focus on performance poetry. See the website for more information.  Get details. 
    • 7:30 pm last Fridays (except for November and December) at Barnes & Noble at 2100 Hamilton Place Boulevard in Chattanooga.
    •  The Wandering Poetry Circle meets every other Tuesday Night at WanderLinger Brewing Company,  https://www.wanderlinger.com/
    EAST *NEW*
    • Third Thursdays at The Maker’s Space, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM in Knoxville, TN. Former Knoxville Poet Laureate Rhea Carmon hosts.
    • Writing Rural America: a public conversation with Appalachian authors David Joy, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson & Karen Spears Zacharias. Oct 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Blount County Public Library 508 N. Cusick Street in Maryville, Tennessee. 
    • Curated Poetry Night: Nov. 7, 7:00 p.m. at Southland Book’s The Bird and the Book, 1509 E Broadway Ave, Maryville, TN 37804
    NORTHEAST
    VIRTUAL

    Last Monday of the month, 7:00 pm Poetry Pie shares poetry on Zoom (max three poems). Contact the society to get on the email list.

    Are we missing an open mic in Tennessee? Let us know!

    Workshops

    On Demand

    Find More Opportunities

    Introducing a running list of venues to find poetry opportunities. Are we missing a good one? Let us know!

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  • Members Featured in Encore 2025

    The National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) annually conducts a poetry competition, with winners appearing in their anthology, Encore 2025. We are pleased to share that Poetry Society of Tennessee members received numerous placements and honorable mentions, and several or their poems appear in this latest edition of Encore.

    Encore 2025 is available for purchase here.

    Winning Poems & Honorable Mentions

    The following members’ received a prize or honorable mention for one or more poems (those with an asterisk had at least one poem published in Encore 2025):

    • Johnathon Bennett *
    • Jerry Buchanan *
    • Lorraine Jeffery
    • Dr. Emory Jones
    • Connie Jordan Green *
    • Lisa Kamolnick *
    • Mary Beth Magee
    • John Mannone *
    • Laura Gunnells Miller *
    • Russell Strauss *

    Members Serving as NFSPS Judges

    Many thanks to PST members Dr. Diane Clark, Connie Jordan Green, Mary Beth Magee, and Russell Strauss who served as judges for some of the contests.

    NFSPS Winner List

    Congratulations to all poets who were honored in the 2025 contests and many thanks to all who participated. Get a complete list of winners and honorable mentions here.

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