Volume 3, Spring 2003
Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose Spring 2003 issue is filled with beautiful and talented works of writing. Many of our authors have received recognition for their published works in multiple highly renowned literary magazines. We are proud to announce the first prize winners for poetry and fiction are Marilyn L. Taylor for her poem “Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles, 1963,” and Nalini Jones for her fiction piece, “This Is Your Home Also.” The cover artwork of our 2003 issue is created by Jane Sutherland, who taught painting at Fairfield University for 28 years. Her works have been exhibited and gained widespread recognition for her landscape and nature paintings.
Editors
Michael C. White
Kim Bridgford
Contest Judges
Jay Parini
A. Manette Ansay
Poetry
First Prize Award:
Marilyn L. Taylor, “Notes from The Good-Girl Chronicles, 1963”
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Constance Campana, “From Here”
Jack Ridl, “Death of a Heron”
Jack Ridl, “On Certain Nights”
Susan Terris, “You Don’t Believe That Dromedaries Keep Moonlight in Their Humps?”
J.D. Smith, “Century of Ideas”
Patti White, “Kingdom Come”
Kip Irwin, “Ode to Im- and In- and Ir-“
Kip Irwin, “Hope”
Jan Bailey, “The Moths”
Darcy Shargo, “Every House Has a Window Like This”
Ed Frankel, “The Tenth Muse”
Nate Pritts, “Foreshadowing”
Susan Thomas, “Love Poem in the Parking Lot of St. Francis of Assisi”
Raynette Eitel, “Only in Stillness”
Michelle Bitting, “Sick Kids”
Penelope Scambly Schott, “My Daughter Who Was Once Eleven”
Marilee Richards, “The Chosen”
Marilee Richards, “The Hospice Volunteer is Interviewed”
Marilee Richards, “The Violation”
Veronica Patterson, “You Came Skating”
Norman Hane, “Proscenium”
Norman Hane, “At the Edge of Autumn”
Helen Marie Casey, “Jeanne, After the Battle is Won”
Charles Atkinson, “Water, After the Battle Is Won”
Ann Hutt Browning, “A Collection of Items”
Lollie Butler, “everything I Have Refused”
Lydia Melvin, “Distance”
Anthony Russell White, “Whale Watching, Carmel Bay, January”
Jeffrey Franklin, “Apologia to the Opossums (IV)”
Fiction
First Prize Award:
Nalini Jones, “This is Your Home Also”
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Bruce Pratt, “Lydia”
Richard Weems, “A Memorial for Hammerhead”
Annie Dawid, “Salesgirl: 1916”
