Poet Laureate Award
Poems Up To 100 Lines

Leave and Come Home      Bill Griffin

Thomas H. McDill Award
Poems Up To 60 Lines
Sponsor: North Carolina Poetry Society Board

Poetry Day America      Bill Griffin

Joanna Catherine Scott Award
Poems In Traditional Forms
Sponsor: Joanna C. Scott

Thoughts from the Tarmac      Celisa Steele

Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award
Poems Up To 32 Lines
Sponsor: Pepper Worthington

Burr Oak, Iowa — 1853      David T. Manning

Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award
Poems Up To 32 Lines
Sponsor: Diana Pinckney

Among the Dust and Dirt      Janet Ireland Trail

Lyman Haiku Award
Haiku Only
Sponsors: Sue Farlow, Bill Griffin

through binoculars      Maxine Carey Harker

Poetry of Courage Award
Poems Up To 32 Lines
Sponsor: Ann Campanella

Celia Unk's Solution      Valerie Macon

Poetry of Love Award
Poems Up To 32 Lines
Sponsor: David Manning

Commute      Debra Kaufman

Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award
Poems For Children
Sponsor: Sallie Nixon

Impressions After Dark      Carole M. Knowles