Sherry Chandler

text of an e-mail from Mick Kennedy:

This letter is sent to inform you of the winners and finalists of the 2005 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. The poems of the winners and finalists will appear in the spring issue of The Heartland Review. All are invited to attend the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series Poetry Month Celebration on April 21, 2005 from 7-8.30pm at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College, Elizabethtown, KY. We will have a few spots for an “open mic”; then, the winners will be recognized and read their work. The evening will culminate with the featured reader Davis McCombs who served as judge for this year’s contest.

1st Place “Impetus” by Darla K. Beasley, West Terre Haute, IN
2nd Place “Barren County” by Shelley Thurman, Bloomington, IN
3rd Place “Elusion” by Mary Stepp, Inez, KY

Finalists:
Shelley Thurman, Bloomington, IN, for “October”
Ellen Birkett Morris, Louisville, KY, for “The Quest”
Betsy Packard, Shelbyville, KY, for “Dark Energy”
Lorri Houck, Cox’s Creek, KY, for “Disciple of the Divine Feminine”
Pamela Steele, Louisville, KY, for “Appearing in Photographs”
Jane Gentry, Versailles, KY, for “Diana, of a Certain Age, Takes a Bath”
Woods Nash, Knoxville, TN, for “Mass and Value” and “Complete”
Renee Edenfield, Magnolia, KY, for “Spring”
Olga-Maria Christina Cruz, Louisville, KY, for “De Anima”
Marci Adair, Oxford, OH, for “Watermelon Babies”
Frederick Smock, Louisville, KY, for “Lines Against the Cold”