The NCPL Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Poetry Contest below:

1st Place: Listening to Bach, by Mara Levine
2nd Place: Last Sunset, by Nurit Israeli
3rd Place: October 31, by Rosemary Walsh

Honorable Mentions:

The Heebie-Jeebies, by Andy Burke
Wood Talk, by Dolores Cinquemani
Dad at 86, by Douglas Dennison
Inside the Golden Years/ a Victims View, by Mike Hertz
Washboard Roads, by Joan Higuchi
I don’t cross the line into unimaginative worlds, by Dd. Spungin
Woman, by George Strausman