73: 2022 Passager Poetry Contest

Honorable mentions

Liz Abrams-Morley
Write Your Hope for the New Year

Gilbert Arzola
Living Will

Joyce S. Brown
Wild Life

Christopher Buckley
In Common

Linda Joy Burke
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Paula Colangelo
Midnight Under the Artificial Moon

Raymond Copson
Zircon

Lisa Couturier
With the Hope My Father Dies While Dreaming

Margaret Flaherty
Nanny’s Hat

Martha Fox
For the ‘Nones’

Leonard Freeman
A Hawk Has Come

Leslie Gabel-Brett
What Is Possible

Jerome Gagnon
Things Are Opening Up Here, Again

Laura Gamache
Walking the Ave with Dylan Thomas

Mary Hennessy
My Heart Is a Parking Lot

Nancy Jean Hill
“Snorkeling”

Gabrielle LeMay
“Night Train”

Margaret Lloyd
“This Moment”

James McGrath
“In the Book I Leave Behind”

Marjorie Schratz McNamara
“Tourist in a Guppy Submarine”

Mary Padgen Michna
“Joy”

Constance Norgren
“Current Reading”

Sue Gibson Parks
“Summer Vacation”

Lenett Partlow-Myrick
“Family Visits with an Elder”

Julie Pratt
“The Cranes”

Beth Brown Preston
“Eye of the Storm”

Jaque Reed
“My Mother Is a Meadow”

John Romagna
“Variation on a Poem by Yeats”

Arthur Russell
“Love Poem”

Joel Savishinsky
“High Tide: The Wrack Line at Lincoln Park Beach, Puget Sound”

Joyce Schmid
“Beauty, Beauty”

Willa Schneberg
“Iron Lung”

Ivy Schweitzer
“Howard Johnson’s off Rt. 95, Jacksonville, FL”

Bob Shapero
“The Nature of the Body”

Anastasia Vassos
“Dear God,”

Susan Walton
“Earth Day, 4/22/22”

Todd Williams
“My Pandemic Face”

James K. Zimmerman
“D-Day”