Poet Laureate Award
Poems Up To 100 Lines

Minestrone, Rainy Day      Debra Kaufman

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

Juniper      Tom Dow

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

Seven Topics of Conversation, with Settings      Kenneth Chamlee

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

Desert Voice      Marjorie Schratz McNamara

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

Twenty Anticomplementary Triangles      Margie Emshoff

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

cantaloupe moon      Timothy Russell

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

And Even on That Night      Richard Krawiec

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

Summer Solstice      Debra Kaufman

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

Why I Love the Carwash      Karol A. Neufeld