Four poems by Rosemary Trimmer:
- The Precious Matter of Love
- Wild Rose Goes for a Drive with God
- Going Camping with Audrey Hepburn
- That’s Right

NFSPS BlackBerryPeach Contest

BBP 2017 - 3rd Place - Rosemerry Trommer

Four Poems by Susan Chambers:
- Thong of the Bikini
- Insomniac’s Conversation in the Dark
- Telling My Son about the Reader
- Personal Response to Last Week’s Letter to the Editor

BBP 2017 - 2nd Place - Susan Chambers

Four poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour 
- Serving 
- I Knew Bad News Had Come 
- Daughter-in-Law Mine, Once Removed
- Buzz Whitedog

BBP 2017 - 1st Place - Kari Gunter-Seymour

BBP 2017 - 1st Honorable Mention - Zachary Kluckman

BBP 2017 - 2nd Honorable Mention - Josh Conklin

BBP 2017 - 3rd Honorable Mention - David Bond

This page presents winners of the BlackBerry Peach Poetry Awards for poetry, spoken and heard, awarded by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies(NFSPS). Find these poems in print at https://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-Peach-Poetry-Awards-2017/dp/1544822642/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497813010&sr=8-1&keywords=blackberry+peach+poetry.

Winners receive cash prizes, an opportunity to perform at a National Federation of Poetry Societies convention, and publication in a collection of winning poets both in print and on this page. 

Winning poems will be posted soon, along with links to the BlackBerry Peach Awards 2017 Book on Amazon and Youtube videos featuring the winners reading their award-winning poems. 

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Submissions are now closed. Our next submission period will begin in January 2018. 

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This is one of several prizes offered by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. To see our open contests, visit our Submittable page at https://nfsps.submittable.com/submit . 

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