Scroll down to see Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest winning poets and poems from each contest year, 2006-2012. Click on poem name to read poem.
Note: as poems are posted on the site, they will be linked to this page. It may take a couple of months for all of the 2012 winning poems to be posted.
WALK AWARDS
| Kari Galbraith | Indian Plum |
| Bob Hicks | The Engorged Heron |
| Peter Howard-Snyder | Ballad of Bed Head |
| William Howard-Snyder | Traveling Through the Dessert |
| David M. Laws | Miscommunication |
| Carole MacRury | An Intimate Look at a Slug |
| Sheila Nickerson | December Dusk: The Stables off Smith Road |
| Judy Orvik | Another Kind of Leaving |
| Cindi Williamson | I laid out red thread on the grass |
| Margarethe Zubler-Keller | WORDS |
MERIT AWARDS
| Finnigan Cooper | Asperger’s |
| Don Cramer | My Ladder |
| Ella Denham-Conroy | Midnight Walk in The Golden Gate City |
| Denise duMaurier | Midnight Mission |
| Carly Eathorne | Caddisfly Larvae |
| Maria Frazey | Ode to Cats |
| Jacob Hartsoch | Saving Power Creek |
| Andrew Shattuck McBride | Grace |
| Wendy McLeod | Tennant Lake Park Rules |
| Ali Morrow | Where I Am From |
| Nicola Morrow | Ode to Potato Chip |
| Jon A. Orvik | Small Things |
| Théa Rosenburg | Munchers |
| George Such | Snorkeling with My Daughter at Gili Aire |
| Elizabeth Vignali | My Mother’s Afterlife |
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WALK AWARDS
| Richard Blake | Your Blue Shirt |
| Dakota Carson | Poor Me |
| Nina Djukic | Sinking |
| Alysa Gallant | A Day at the Lake |
| Norman L. Green | teach me reeds |
| Rachel Mehl | Bellingham |
| Timothy Pilgrim | Painting lesson |
| George Such | Veiled |
| Lucas Walker | the engineer |
| Cindi Williamson | Four Blue Heron |
MERIT AWARDS
| Caleb Barber | Pete |
| Laura Boynton | Azygous |
| McKeahan Carlton | The Trees |
| Eric Carr | SNOW |
| Linda Conroy | January View |
| Denise duMaurier | Conspiring |
| Jesse Kennemer | Vigil |
| Mary Lucas | Question |
| Sandra F. Lucke | Piano Cowboy |
| Carolyn McCarthy | Departure |
| Kevin Murphy | Books on Trees |
| Lara Niedermeyer | Stormless |
| Ruby Powers | Daylight on a Summer Branch |
| Emily Ramey | Frog? |
| Kobe Woodruff | Pencil Elves |
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WALK AWARDS
| Conor Callaghan | Black |
| Abigail Carr | Blowing the Lake into Place |
| David P. Drummond | Guillemots |
| Evan Ingalls | Natural Communication |
| Carolyn McCarthy | Wild Orchid |
| Kevin Murphy | Falling Apart |
| Paul Piper | To a Slug in Winter |
| Taylor Rowland | Questions I Had Growing Up |
| Devan Schwartz | On Heliotrope Trail |
| Carla Shafer | Migrant |
MERIT AWARDS
| Erik Burge | Suiattle |
| Joe Cook | Samsara |
| Sierra Golden | What I really like about making bread |
| Zoie Greve | The Mist |
| Jo Ann Heydron | How to Stay |
| Bella Mallett | Happiness |
| Mitchell Morrison | we are the mole people |
| Nicola Morrow | Emma’s Kitchen |
| Sheila Nickerson | In a University Town: September |
| Luke Reinschmidt | I Remember |
| Kim Roe | After Being Called ‘Girlie’ at the Hardware Store |
| Ellie Rogers | Window Seat |
| Jose Valenzuala | King of All Erasers |
| Karee Wardrop | How to Promote Peace by Watching Birds |
| Keajn Wardrop-Peterson | Wood |
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WALK AWARDS
| Erik Burge | Squalicum |
| Tyree Callahan | A Reefnetter’s Paean to the Sea |
| Esme Dutcher | Indian Plum |
| Tessa Haggerty | Bare Feet |
| Oksana Hanson | Awe |
| Sarah Hill | Forever Breeze |
| Katie Humes | Spin |
| Kate Berne Miller | Diminishing Returns |
| Dorothy Regal | Little Mothers |
| Gary Wade | Invitation to Jake |
MERIT AWARDS
| Alexis Austin | Mayfield Lake |
| Brenda Beehler | I Build You a House of Whale Bones |
| Angela Belcaster | Rain Words |
| Madeline Bowler | The Moon |
| Kai Bretherton | In the Blast Zone (Mt. St. Helens, 28 years after) |
| Julie Dunaway | Bellingham trains |
| Stephanee Henderson | You can’t have it all . . . |
| Christine M. Kendall | Watching the Storm |
| Taylor Knutson | Heart Song |
| Bob Markey | A Growing Family |
| Andrew Shattuck McBride | Boulevard Park |
| Niel Pfundt | Wife of a Fisherman |
| Kim Roe | Desire |
| Colleen Schwartz | Migration |
| Dale Wallace | Waiting for our ship – 1935 |
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WALK AWARDS
| Rachel Ballard | New Year’s Day at Whatcom Creek, Far from the War |
| Angela Belcaster | Spring Cleaning |
| Linda Conroy | Organization |
| Ryler Dustin | Your Heart Was Once a Hill |
| J. I. Kleinberg | Pedestrian’s Lament |
| David M. Laws | january foot |
| Hunter Mumm | Lightning and Thunder |
| Stephen A. Peters | (untitled) |
| Abby Sussman | Magnetic North |
| Johnathan Zavalza | Baby |
MERIT AWARDS
| Patricia Alesse | Ode to the Grandview Signal Light |
| Jazlyn Atwood | Home |
| Misun Bishop | Kivulana |
| Jason Darling | Life as an adolescent boar |
| M. Elaine Eastman | Of Mist and Keramos |
| Kristi Felbinger | Love – |
| Emilie Elizabeth Friske | Terrorist, I am not |
| Skyler Jones | The Sweet, Sweet Smell of Success |
| Elani Koogle | to the poet |
| Rob Macdonald | The Storm |
| Zachary Masterson | Moon |
| Nelle McClenahan | Our Twenty-Sixth Winter |
| Bryan Middlebrook | Love Notes from 3 a.m. |
| Jim Milstead | Following Robert Froth |
| Madison Pheifer | Too Little |
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WALK AWARDS
| Luther Allen | Under and Above |
| Angela Belcaster | That Fragile Helix |
| Skye Burn | Uncommon Courtesy |
| Nancy Lou Canyon | Dreaming Beneath a Big Sky |
| Julia Hobart | The Best Recipe |
| Jeffrey Klausman | On Fire |
| Bob Markey | Next Time |
| Carla Shafer | East of Point Francis |
MERIT AWARDS
| Miranda Myers Barker | The Dissipating Property of Sand |
| Cece Briggs | Chemistry |
| Claire Cancilla | Three People |
| Paige Kulm | For What Was |
| Elise Murphy | You see lemons |
| Mary Peebles | I’m Fine, Thank You |
| Jim Schmotzer | August Evening |
| Devan Schwartz | The Futaleufu River |
| Bernie Thomas | Our Human Spirit |
| Diane Barrera Turner | From the same flour |
| Annie Wilce | The Dessert Case |
| Menko Ypma | Never Repeated |
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WALK AWARDS
| Luther Allen | Lummi Island |
| Alex Check | Survive |
| Barbara Davis-Pyles | In This Place |
| Bliss Goldstein | The Bellingham Blues |
| Johanna Landis | Sehome, dusk |
| Danika Lauderdale | People Watching |
| Kate Miller | Owl Song |
| Lorna Murphy | Dandelions on North Garden Street |
| Edwina Norton | Northwest Nightlife |
| Tom O’Brien | Friends |
| Kelly G. Ramer | Song with grey shapes |
| Sergio Rangel | I Am From |
| Matthew Campbell Roberts | Hay |
| Kim Roe | South Fork Valley |
| Scott Stodola | Railroad Avenue |
| Scott Stodola | Place Value |
| Kayla Townley | Untitled |
| Jeremy Voigt | My Neighbor Knocking |
| Jeanne Yeasting | November in the Northwest |
| Jeanne Yeasting | Distance |
MERIT AWARDS
| Chelsea Applegate | You |
| Dylan Bruce | A Community |
| Brickell Dotson | Community |
| Kiana Gray | A School is Like an Aquarium |
| Kaiya Hammond | Community of Friends |
| Greg Hoffenbacker | Last Will and Testament |
| Johanna Landis | Spring Fall |
| Lorna Murphy | Retirement in Bellingham |
| Stephen A. Peters | Untitled |
| Rena Priest | Meridian Traffic |
| Kelly G. Ramer | Celebratory Gowns |
| James R. Regier | New |
| Jeremy Voigt | Rotting Wood |
| Ashlyn Wade | Friends |
