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Date Judged	Contest Name	Sponsor
4/20/2025	YOUR CHOICE R	Brian Strand
4/20/2025	Write Twelve Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
4/19/2025	Pick-A-Title, Vol 50 -	Edward Ibeh
4/18/2025	YOUR CHOICE Q	Brian Strand
4/18/2025	The Jewel Of Jesus -	Justin Bordner
4/17/2025	Etheree	Ink Empress
4/16/2025	YOUR CHOICE P	Brian Strand
4/16/2025	Stevie Wonder	Karen Jones
4/16/2025	Finish My Poem	Mystic Rose Rose
4/16/2025	Slab City	Anthony Biaanco
4/16/2025	Write Eleven Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
4/15/2025	the now continuum	Unseeking Seeker
4/15/2025	YOUR CHOICE O	Brian Strand
4/14/2025	Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future	Daniel Henry Rodgers
4/14/2025	The Cold Embrace Of Death	Sara Jama
4/14/2025	afterglow	Kai Michael Neumann
4/14/2025	National Poetry Month Word Prompts	Crystol Woods
4/13/2025	YOUR CHOICE N	Brian Strand
4/13/2025	Write Ten Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
4/11/2025	YOUR CHOICE M	Brian Strand
4/10/2025	Bitesize Contest no107	Line Gauthier
4/10/2025	YOUR CHOICE L	Brian Strand
4/9/2025	Serpents, Scorpions, Owls	Sara Jama
4/9/2025	What makes you feel	Malabika Ray Choudhury
4/9/2025	1984 -The Fall of Big Brother	Tom Woody
4/9/2025	Light or Shadows	Suzette Richards
4/8/2025	YOUR CHOICE K	Brian Strand
4/8/2025	Light Hearted About Kids	Miranda Hawley
4/7/2025	YOUR CHOICE J	Brian Strand
4/7/2025	This or That, Vol 31	Edward Ibeh
4/6/2025	Write Nine Beautiful Lines (with a twist)	Constance La France
4/6/2025	Prisoner of Poetry	Ink Empress
4/6/2025	YOUR CHOICE I	Brian Strand
4/6/2025	Spring Haiku	Tania Kitchin
4/4/2025	Each Star Has A Pattern Of Its Own	Mystic Rose Rose
4/4/2025	YOUR CHOICE H	Brian Strand
4/3/2025	Ekphrasis on Album (or Single, Cassette, Vinyl) Cover Art	Di11y Da11y
4/2/2025	Dance of Death	Robert James Liguori
4/1/2025	Blue Cheese and Old Pickles	Craig Cornish
4/1/2025	YOUR CHOICE G	Brian Strand
3/31/2025	BiteSize Contest no106	Line Gauthier
3/30/2025	Write Eight Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/29/2025	An Irish Themed Limerick	Tania Kitchin
3/28/2025	YOUR CHOICE F	Brian Strand
3/28/2025	mulberry trees and butterflies	Kai Michael Neumann
3/27/2025	Two Line Quote	Rick Parise
3/26/2025	YOUR CHOICE E	Brian Strand
3/26/2025	St Patrick's Day	Oliver Mckeithan
3/25/2025	8x8x8x8	Charles Messina
3/25/2025	Bitesize Contest no105	Line Gauthier
3/24/2025	This Is What I Call A Loyal Love	Mystic Rose Rose
3/24/2025	YOUR CHOICE D	Brian Strand
3/24/2025	Allegory (Fable-Parable)	Crystol Woods
3/23/2025	The echo returns not	Unseeking Seeker
3/23/2025	Write Seven Beautiful Lines With A Twist	Constance La France
3/23/2025	Swimming In Grief	Sara Jama
3/23/2025	What Do You Feel	Rick Parise
3/22/2025	A 5-Liner on your Life	Andrea Dietrich
3/22/2025	YOUR CHOICE C	Brian Strand
3/22/2025	Forgive Me	Matt Caliri
3/21/2025	Iron Maiden	Robert James Liguori
3/21/2025	Refrains in 8	Joseph May
3/20/2025	Take Me To Where Love Learns No More -	Justin Bordner
3/19/2025	Let The Words of my Mouth 16 lines or less	Miranda Hawley
3/19/2025	Write Six Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/19/2025	BiteSize Contest no104	Line Gauthier
3/19/2025	YOUR CHOICE B	Brian Strand
3/17/2025	Break the Silence	Ink Empress
3/17/2025	Angels	Mystic Rose Rose
3/16/2025	YOUR CHOICE A	Brian Strand
3/16/2025	Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist	Sara Jama
3/15/2025	I Choose To Dwell In The Clouds	Tom Woody
3/14/2025	Write Five Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/14/2025	if I could I would fetch you the moon on a spoon	Kai Michael Neumann
3/12/2025	JUST MARCH 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
3/11/2025	Write Four Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/11/2025	BiteSize Contest no103	Line Gauthier
3/10/2025	Self Love	Karen Jones
3/9/2025	ONLY MARCH 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
3/9/2025	Open Poetry 11	Charlotte Puddifoot
3/9/2025	Echoes Of The Silent Shore	Mystic Rose Rose
3/9/2025	Saints and poets maybe - Simplified	Suzette Richards
3/7/2025	Write Three Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/7/2025	I dived into the cauldron of magic potion and...	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
3/7/2025	MARCH 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
3/5/2025	Golden Age of Music	Oliver Mckeithan
3/5/2025	First Underground Nuclear Kitchen (FUNK)	Robert James Liguori
3/5/2025	Poetry Comes in All Kinds of Shape	Vanya Evangeline
3/4/2025	Write Two Beautiful Lines	Constance La France
3/4/2025	As The Last Petal Falls	Sara Jama
3/3/2025	A MARCH 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
3/3/2025	A Vine in Winter (or vines)	Craig Cornish
3/2/2025	A Rose In The Garden Of Love	Mystic Rose Rose
3/2/2025	That's Life: A Different Kind of Challenge	Andrea Dietrich
3/2/2025	BiteSize Contest no102	Line Gauthier
3/2/2025	Pick-A-Title, Vol 49	Edward Ibeh
3/2/2025	A New Etheree Poem Any Theme	Tania Kitchin
3/1/2025	Writing Prompts 16 lines or less	Miranda Hawley
3/1/2025	Write One Beautiful Line	Constance La France
3/1/2025	healing	Kai Michael Neumann

These are the latest winners of our Premiere Contests. Premiere Contests have stricter guidelines for contest sponsors as determined by PoetrySoup.

Date Judged	Winning Poem	Poet	Contest Name
4/16/2025	Butterfly on the Wing	Lin Lane	Finish My Poem
4/15/2025	The Now Continuum	Ink Empress	the now continuum
4/14/2025	The Cold Embrace of Death	Di11y Da11y	The Cold Embrace Of Death
4/14/2025	Epitome Of Afterglow	Subimal Sinha-Roy	afterglow
4/9/2025	Dawn of Delirium	Ink Empress	Serpents, Scorpions, Owls
4/9/2025	What makes you feel	Heidi Sands	What makes you feel
4/9/2025	Banned Book Club VII- 1984	I Am Anaya	1984 -The Fall of Big Brother
4/9/2025	Shadows	Craig Cornish	Light or Shadows
4/4/2025	The Pattern of Stars, one and all	John Anderson	Each Star Has A Pattern Of Its Own
4/2/2025	Dance of Death	Ink Empress	Dance of Death
3/28/2025	Serene Meadow	Sotto Poet	mulberry trees and butterflies
3/27/2025	enough	Constance La France	Two Line Quote
3/23/2025	Swimming In Grief	Susan Ashley	Swimming In Grief
3/23/2025	A Tree	Suzette Richards	What Do You Feel
3/21/2025	Hallowed be Thy Name	Ink Empress	Iron Maiden
3/19/2025	Let The Words	Joanna Daniel	Let The Words of my Mouth 16 lines or less
3/17/2025	Tear Stained Music	Regina Mcintosh	Angels
3/16/2025	Memories Lost Within a Frozen Mist	Lin Lane	Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist
3/15/2025	Clouds and Candy Raindrops	Trina Layne	I Choose To Dwell In The Clouds
3/14/2025	Lachrymose Lament	Ink Empress	if I could I would fetch you the moon on a spoon
3/9/2025	You Planted a Garden in me	Hiba Junaid	Open Poetry 11
3/9/2025	Echoes of the Silent Shore	David Crandall	Echoes Of The Silent Shore
3/5/2025	We Go 2 War -Living In The USA	I Am Anaya	First Underground Nuclear Kitchen (FUNK)
3/4/2025	Desolate Dynasty	Billie Jama	As The Last Petal Falls
3/2/2025	Cupid's Stand-in Does His Darndest	David Crandall	A Rose In The Garden Of Love
3/1/2025	Unity	Rick Parise	healing
2/28/2025	Mind of the Heart	Constance La France	Mind of the heart
2/24/2025	Claustrophobic Cave	Ink Empress	Skating Upon Saturns Rings
2/22/2025	Caught in a Snow Globe	Joanna Daniel	New Voices
2/20/2025	Dreamer and the Dreamed	Ink Empress	Dreamer and the dreamed
2/18/2025	Undergrowth with Two Figures, Van Gogh	Ink Empress	Undergrowth with Two Figures
2/16/2025	Raging Fire Hollow Hearts	Sotto Poet	Colonisation
2/14/2025	My Bloody Valentine	Joel Hawksley	My Bloody Valentine
2/12/2025	ARMGAUNT EFTES and RIBAUDRED	Brian Strand	Vogon Poetry
2/11/2025	Embodying the Light	Lin Lane	Embodying the light
2/6/2025	Constructor of my Own Chaos	Di11y Da11y	Constructor of My Own Chaos
2/5/2025	Heaven's missing an Angel	Ink Empress	Hughes Turner Project
2/3/2025	Righteous Sunday	Greg Gaul	Your Absolute Best Poem Ever
2/2/2025	When my Muse Came Knocking	Valsa George	Write On
2/1/2025	Humanity	David Kavanagh	Laws of Physics and Humanity
1/31/2025	A Glimpse into The Future	Victor Buhagiar	Serling vs Roddenberry vs Hitchcock
1/31/2025	Eternal Symphony of Hearts	Thiyagarajan Narayanan	Best Romantic Poem
1/30/2025	Tears of Time	Ink Empress	Time stops for no one
1/20/2025	Flakes of Faith in the Chill	Sotto Poet	Any Subject
1/19/2025	e e letter	Joel Hawksley	Letters to the Poets We Like
1/18/2025	Our natural state	Ink Empress	Our natural state
1/5/2025	Song of September	Andrea Dietrich	Happy Birthday
1/5/2025	Red Sun	Ink Empress	Glenn Hughes
1/4/2025	Manifesto	Tom Woody	Manifesto
1/4/2025	Recognition	Valsa George	Recognition
12/31/2024	December Dunes	Ink Empress	Ten lines from Ten poems
12/25/2024	Searching for love among the stars	Silent One	Poem of Your Heart
12/22/2024	The Duckling - Apologies to Edgar Allan Poe	David Crandall	Premiere V - Open
12/20/2024	Clover's In the Bottom Right-Hand Corner Doing the Best with What Circumstance Brought Her	Jaymee Thomas	Strayed Sheep
12/18/2024	Light that lights all lights	Ink Empress	Light that lights all lights
12/17/2024	Jay Pallen a Wonderful Sister and Friend	Howard Kerr	Making love
12/15/2024	The Casualness of Casualties	Susan Ashley	Haibun Heaven or Hell
12/11/2024	Moon is an Artist	Ink Empress	Alexandrine: UPDATE 12-12-24
12/10/2024	A New Day Dawns	John Anderson	Couplet Contest
12/5/2024	Dandelion Dreams	Ink Empress	Glenn Hughes
12/4/2024	Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides	Sotto Poet	Psychedelic
12/1/2024	Descent And Ascent	Susan Ashley	Descent and ascent
11/29/2024	Into The Void	Jeff Kyser	ADDRESSING THE WORLD WITH YOUR GIFT DIVINE
11/27/2024	Addiction	Valsa George	Addiction
11/25/2024	Bite Your Tongue	Lin Lane	Power in the Tongue
11/25/2024	In A Frozen Land	Constance La France	Free Verse
11/23/2024	Bone Beach	Brian Davey	Bone Beach
11/22/2024	Remember Yourself	Jaymee Thomas	Starman
11/21/2024	Dreams Within Dreams	Subimal Sinha-Roy	Dreams within dreams
11/13/2024	Animating Innate Vibrance	Hiya Sharma	Animating innate vibrance
11/13/2024	Moonstone Melodies	Andrea Dietrich	Moonstone or Stardust
11/13/2024	Gift of Recovery	Valsa George	Gift of Recovery
11/10/2024	I go Insane	Ink Empress	Glenn Hughes
11/2/2024	Bird of Paradise	Kim Rodrigues	Bird-of-Paradise - REVISED
10/29/2024	Snuggles My Cat	Constance La France	Trionet
10/22/2024	Fairy-floss Fireflies	Hiya Sharma	Lets Minichu on fulfilment
10/20/2024	To Whom Does This Come	I Am Anaya	To whom does this come
10/16/2024	Lantern of the Shadowed Glade :POTD:	Edward Wraith	Scary Stories
10/12/2024	The Last 39 Minutes	Subimal Sinha-Roy	39 Minutes
10/12/2024	PEN	Howard Osborne	The Story of Your Stuff
10/10/2024	No Stranger To Love	Sara Jama	Glenn Hughes
10/6/2024	Blissful Repose	Constance La France	Cessation
10/2/2024	Pie downcast	John Anderson	Pie-in-the-sky
10/1/2024	Stream Ensemble	John Anderson	Onomatopoeia
9/29/2024	Soupster Symphony	Frank Mashina	Soupsters Unite and Write!
9/23/2024	The whispers of autumn	Jay Narain	THE WHISPERS OF AUTUMN
9/23/2024	My Favorite Teacher	David Crandall	My Favorite Teacher
9/16/2024	Paranoid	Ink Empress	Glenn Hughes
9/15/2024	Freedom	Sandra Haight	lets Minichu on freedom
9/15/2024	My Future Self	Subimal Sinha-Roy	My future self
9/15/2024	Mother Said	Wendy Stein	MOTHER SAID with Refractory Rhymes
9/5/2024	Spirits Of Saturn	Susan Ashley	Open Poetry 10
8/29/2024	Response to Soul Speak	Andrea Dietrich	Soul speak
8/19/2024	To the aura who rhymes	Lioness Onpaper	My Special Poet
8/18/2024	Pool Fool	Terry Miller	Picture Prompt
8/16/2024	Goodbye to Romance	Silent One	Glenn Hughes
8/15/2024	Monet In Venice	Chetta Achara	Collective nouns
8/15/2024	Abracadabra - It's Magical- Collaboration	Merv Hold	Abracadabra Rhyme
8/14/2024	Mr Minichu	Constance La France	lets Minichu on Dilemma
7/22/2024	Metamorphosis	Ink Empress	Metamorphosis

Check the status of a closed poetry contest whose judging is not finished. Click on the name of the contest to go to that contest's details and poetry contest status update.

Note: Poetry contests that have not been judged by the contest sponsor within 6 months of the contest deadline are deleted by the system.

Contest Deadline	Contest Name	Sponsor
5/14/2025	happily discontent	Kai Michael Neumann
5/14/2025	MOTHER'S DAY	Benjamin Bartley
5/11/2025	5X5X3	Miranda Hawley
5/11/2025	Threading The Lines	Joseph May
5/10/2025	BiteSize Contest no108	Line Gauthier
5/9/2025	Thrust in the centre of the storm, all I could see was you	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
4/8/2025	Emo-Music Inspired Poems	B.J. Fitz
2/5/2025	Triolet Contrast	Hilo Poet
12/12/2024	Highest Bidder Had To Consider	Sigrid Ermine
11/16/2024	I Almost Tossed It Out	John Lawless
11/1/2024	YOUR BEST POEM	Poet Destroyer A