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See the results of poetry contests here. Click on the name of the poetry contest to go to that contest's winner's list.

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Date Judged	Contest Name	Sponsor
2/4/2025	CHOOSE A FEB 2025 POSTED POEM	Brian Strand
2/4/2025	Five Lines-Short and Sweet	Oliver Mckeithan
2/4/2025	Jasmine or Flakes	Ink Empress
2/3/2025	Your Absolute Best Poem Ever	Tom Woody
2/3/2025	In An Instant	Craig Cornish
2/2/2025	Write On	Karen Jones
2/2/2025	Alphabet Soup	Joseph May
2/1/2025	Laws of Physics and Humanity	Di11y Da11y
1/31/2025	Serling vs Roddenberry vs Hitchcock	Tom Woody
1/31/2025	Best Romantic Poem	Emile Pinet
1/31/2025	JUST JAN 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
1/30/2025	4X4X4	Miranda Hawley
1/30/2025	Time stops for no one	Sara Jama
1/30/2025	In my deepest fantasies	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
1/28/2025	A JAN 2025 POSTED	Brian Strand
1/27/2025	Second Chance For Non Placement	Constance La France
1/26/2025	Holiday Fun Limerick contest- Santa, Frosty, Rudolph or Elf - set of 3	Tania Kitchin
1/25/2025	Select a 2025 posted poem	Brian Strand
1/25/2025	BiteSize no98	Line Gauthier
1/21/2025	ONLY 2025 POSTED POEMS	Brian Strand
1/21/2025	Animals	Constance La France
1/21/2025	When You Are Old	Sara Kendrick
1/20/2025	Any Subject	Regina Mcintosh
1/19/2025	Letters to the Poets We Like	Jaymee Thomas
1/19/2025	2025 posted Short form	Brian Strand
1/19/2025	The Buddha meets Christmas	Kai Michael Neumann
1/18/2025	Our natural state	Unseeking Seeker
1/16/2025	Ends	Craig Cornish
1/16/2025	Pick-A-Title, Vol 48	Edward Ibeh
1/15/2025	2025 POSTED POEM	Brian Strand
1/11/2025	Christmas Tizzy 12 lines or less	Miranda Hawley
1/11/2025	A 2025 POSTED POEM	Brian Strand
1/11/2025	As the third person BIO	Julianne Williams
1/10/2025	Bite Size no97	Line Gauthier
1/8/2025	Sanford-style tanka - A PICTURE PROMPT	Suzette Richards
1/8/2025	ANOTHER 2025 POSTED POEM	Brian Strand
1/7/2025	New Years Old Wishes	Craig Cornish
1/6/2025	Sonnet - Old or New	Joseph May
1/5/2025	In the cycle of Existence	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
1/5/2025	Happy Birthday	Regina Mcintosh
1/5/2025	Glenn Hughes	Robert James Liguori
1/4/2025	Manifesto	Hilo Poet
1/4/2025	Recognition	Unseeking Seeker
1/4/2025	CHOOSE A 2025 POSTED POEM	Brian Strand
1/3/2025	Christmas Song Parodies	Crystol Woods
1/1/2025	New Chance with Pleiades for the New Year - Revised Description	Andrea Dietrich

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
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
7/20/2024	Twisted tale of Humpty Dumpty	Ink Empress	Nursery Rhyme Wackiness
7/20/2024	my clothes	amelie williams	Sartorial Self Portrait
7/17/2024	At the Zoo - very crude	Jack Horne	Picture Prompt
7/16/2024	Still in Love with You	Ink Empress	Glenn Hughes
7/13/2024	Paradigm Of Contrast	Subimal Sinha-Roy	Contrast
7/8/2024	What are we?	Silent One	What Are We
7/5/2024	Piercing the veil	Unseeking Seeker	Poetry should be felt
7/1/2024	Minus Identity Who Am I	Subimal Sinha-Roy	Minus identity who am I
6/30/2024	Jesus of Galilee	Regina Mcintosh	Ottava Rima
6/22/2024	Nothing Artificial About It	Beatrix Macabre	AI -The Blessings and Curses
6/19/2024	His	Sara Kendrick	Intro ''POI''-etry
6/16/2024	Miss Little Insane	Silent One	Glenn Hughes
6/15/2024	EUROVISIONs GOLD-Sleep My Love 1958	Kim Rodrigues	Eurovision - Past, Present, Future
6/15/2024	Only Just Begun	Constance La France	He Has Only Just Begun
6/12/2024	Poetry Soup Kitchen	Crystol Woods	Poetry Soup Contest!
6/5/2024	Curtains	Janice Canerdy	Curtains
5/29/2024	Submissive Silence	Janis Medders Tobechi	New Poem Open Form
5/29/2024	Dadella DeVil	David Crandall	To the tune of Cruella DeVil
5/27/2024	The Gun Shop	Susan Ashley	Open Poetry 9
5/26/2024	Shadows	Regina Mcintosh	No 1312
5/25/2024	Gamboge Romance	Tonye George	Gotta Love Alliteration
5/23/2024	Whispers Skyline	Sotto Poet	No 1311
5/18/2024	fragrant florescence	Ink Empress	No 1310
5/16/2024	Wishing for Dawn	Andrea Dietrich	Glenn Hughes
5/15/2024	Spring Promise	Sandra Haight	Sonnet-Lipogram
5/15/2024	Orchid Woman	Susan Ashley	No 1309
5/11/2024	Free Verse On Love	Janis Medders Tobechi	No 1308
5/7/2024	Eternal Ecstasy	Subimal Sinha-Roy	No 1307
5/3/2024	Now and then	Heidi North	No 1306
5/1/2024	gifting more than gold	Chetta Achara	Senryu's 3 Rhymed By 3 Unrhymed
4/30/2024	Rebirth of the Third Angel	Susan Ashley	No 1305
4/29/2024	To which Image should we cling	Krish Radhakrishna	To which image should we cling
4/27/2024	Etched Humanity	Sotto Poet	No 1304
4/25/2024	An Ode to Last Leaf	Jay Narain	Ode
4/24/2024	is-ness of being-ness	Unseeking Seeker	No 1303
4/20/2024	Showtime for Spring	Sam Kauffman	No 1302
4/16/2024	I Saw God, but Now What	Valsa George	I saw God but now what

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
2/5/2025	Triolet Contrast	Hilo Poet
2/4/2025	Dumpster Fire	Margarita Lillico
2/4/2025	John Denver	Anthony Biaanco
1/14/2025	Forgive Me	Matt Caliri
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