Sheppard B. Kominars, “On the Subway III (The Bum)”
James Bradford Fowler, Jr., “In the Light of Dawn,” “To This Page, To You,” “Lilacs,” “The Boy on the Porch Steps”
Joyce Renwick, “I See You Flying”
Albert W. Haley, Jr., “Riddle #27: Mead”
Richard Currey, “The Northern Sky,” “Untitled”
Joan Colby, “Marriage”
A.Z. Romano, “Untitled”
Margaret Gibson, “My Father is a Gardener,” “Sleep”
John Burnett Payne, “It Is Wholly Up to Us”
William Meissner (first prize winner for poetry), “Voices Streaming Under My Skin: 17 Walking Again and 19 My Last Translation,” “Messages from a Found Bottle: 3 and 11,” “Drifting Like A Circle”
Doris Radin, “‘To Think of His Left Eye is Perdition,'” “Speak to the Earth,” “The Unrest,” “I Contemplate a Willow Uprooted by a Storm”
Kenneth Fones, “Morgue”
Jon Woodson, “America”
Barbara Lefcowitz, “The Voice,” “Zaddik,” “Seasons,””Threshold”
William Virgil Davis, “The Snow Boy”
Frederick Steinway, “Tea”
Thomas Johnson (honorable mention for poetry), “Laboratory,” “Carrot Row”
Richard McCann, “‘Let’s Make Love'”
Bernard Welt (honorable mention for poetry), “What is Air?,” “1500 Detectives in Chicago and They Have To Assign This Case To You,” “Climbing the Mountain,” “Letter from John,” “Confessional”
Lee Mellick, “Santiago,” “Op Cit,” “Exposition Number 11”