Faulkner if finally finished for 2017

Faulkner is finally finished! "Hats" was a semifinalist. It took them months longer this year to post finishes.

Poetry

The total number of poems entered for 2017 is 163, of which 47 were  selected as Finalists. From the original Finalists list, 19 were selected for the Short list. And additional 30 entries places as Semi-finalists. Of the 163 total manuscripts entered, 79 were from New Orleans and other Louisiana communities. Seven entries came from foreign countries and the remaining 77 entries were from various U. S. states. The Short List is being judged by well-published poet Carolyn Hembree.

Short List

All the Voices Here Are Echoes
An Abnormal Psychlist’s Secret History
Audrey, Jigging in the River Shack,
A Youngest Daughter’s Tale,
Dispatches from the Wake-up Kingdom
Going Back for What’s Mine 
Hallelujah Lost
New Year
One Two Tree
Pale Green Leaves
Quandry…Circa 1970
Quenched
Resurrection Visitation: Ars Poetica
Remind Me Again How Our Love Was Ill-Advised
Rustlers and Thieves
The Ballad of Charley Mosely
Those Summer Breakfasts
Wolf Girl
Worn Sneakers

Finalists

A Mash Note for My Country from the Pacific Surfliner, George Yatchisin, Santa Barbara, CA
And the Story Begins, Linda Neal, Redondo Beach, CA
Apollo’s Muses, Act I, Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
Bones on the Charnel Ground, Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ
Cold Trails, Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada
Depression Unbound, Holly Schwartztol, The Villages, FL
First Prayer, Patricia Ljutic, Pinole, CA
Cloud Fishing, Mary Jean Pramik, San Francisco, CA
Footsteps Overboard, Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Gift, Constance E. Boyle, Arvada, CO
It Was Said, D. M. Gordon, Leeds, MA
Pentimento, Margaret Edwards, Charleston, SC
Proof, Judith Walsh White, Chevy Chase, MD
Rain I Used To Love, Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Relationship, Carol Vinson, Brooklyn, NY
Retrograde Poetics, Melanie Dante, Philadelphia, PA
Slide to Unlock, Julie E. Bloemeke, Alpharetta, GA
Sonnet for Maxine, Suellen Wedmore, Rockport, MA
Streetcar to Parnassus, Larry Rhu, Columbia, SC
Sylph, Sebastian Lopez, Washington, DC
The Art of Forgetting, John Blair, San Marcos, TX
The Death of the People, Alexandra O’Sullivan, Metairie, LA
The Tidal Range: A Jungian Analysis, Michael Tusa, Abita Springs, LA
Tree Eaters’ Trilogy, Jack Stillwaggon, Hamilton, NY
Venus Rising, Kathryn Brown Ramsperger, Rockville, MD
View from the Cliff, Larkin Edwin Greer, New York, NY
We All Fall Down, Torie Amarie Dale, Taylors, SC
We the Wolves, Adeline Bradley, Iowa City, IA

Semi-Finalists

Angel Trumpets Crown, Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
A Promise, Sarah Taylor, Louisville, KY
Charge of the Light of the World, Mark Summerville, Pulaski, PA
Dinner, Constantina Clark, Waynesville, OH
Ethics, Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL
Gone, Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Hats, Janet Taylor-Perry, Ridgeland, MS
Homage to My Lips, Michelle Simon, Scottsdale, AZ
Missing Mom on Thanksgiving, Holly W. Schwartztol, The Villages, FL
My Box, Alexandra O’Sullivan, Metairie, LA
My Inner Child, Leslie Daniels, Thorold, Ontario, Canada
Old Houses Creak, Pat Gallant, New York, NY
Orphean Ascension Crown, Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
Orpheus Transformed, Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
Orpheum’s Reunion, Manfred Pollard, New Orleans, LA
Petals and Garden of Nymat Ancome, Laura Quinn Guidry, Carmine, TX
Pot of Chicken Soup, Jean Carr, Tucson, AZ
Rayuela, Mariana Yante Barrêto Pereira, Wuhan, China
Seaford, Grace McKenna, Wilmington, DE
Shingles, Daniel Turtel, New York, NY
Sometimes We’re Happy, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Lagrangeville, NY
Sore Feet in the City of Light, Larry Rhu, Columbia, SC
Stinkweed Forest, Judith Walsh White, Chevy Chase, MD
Surgeries, Michelle Simon, Scottsdale, AZ
Swimming Holes, Constantina Clark, Waynesville, OH
Taos, Duane DeRaad, El Prado, NM
To Heart, Becca Wilson, Erath, LA
The Carrot and the Pot Roast, Judith Walsh White, Chevy Chase, MD
The California Tales, The General Prologue, Taylor A. Lucio, Northglenn, CO
Winter Thaw, Celeste H. Schantz Kovachi, Fairport, NY