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The Ontario Poetry Society
~ Across the Universe Contest, 2023 Winners List ~

The Ontario Poetry Society Presents:
Across the Universe Contest, 2023

Winners List!

First Prize: The Potter's Wheel by Jeevan Bhagwat, Toronto, Ontario
Second Prize: Who, but They? by Ronda Wicks Eller, Mitchell, Ontario
Third Prize: Humanity, Lost by Jeevan Bhagwat, Toronto, Ontario

20 Honourable Mention Awards (in no particular order)

Celestial Legend by Becky Alexander, Cambridge, ON
August by April Bulmer, Cambridge, ON
It's a Puzzle by Alvin Ens, Abbotsford, B.C.
Just Wondering by Louise Fairley, Edmonton, AB
Lost Language by Fran Figge, Stoney Creek, ON
Intergalactic Yard Sale by Katerina Fretwell, St. Catharine, ON
Symphony by Suparna Ghosh, Toronto, ON
sweet salient moon by I.B. Iskov, Toronto, ON
Water Water Everywhere by Donna Langevin, Toronto, ON
NASA, We Have A Problem! by Donna Langevin, Toronto, ON
Falling in Love with an Unmet Stranger Under a Sleeper's Moon by John B. Lee, Port Dover, ON
Prophecy by Diane Attwell Palfrey, Cambridge, ON
Moonstruck by Mary Ruth Reed, Larder Lake, ON
The Gita of Yashoda and the Infant Krishna by Stephen Kent Roney, Toronto, ON
A Conversation with the Moon by Richard-Yves Sitoski, Owen Sound, ON
Moon Dogs by Dorothy Stott, Gibsons, B.C.
Birth Signs by Lynn Tait, Sarnia, ON
Foreshadowing by Lisa Timpf, Simcoe, ON
Sidelined by N.K. Wilson, Toronto, ON
Earth Rise by Ed Woods, Dundas, ON