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2025 Lengthy Poem Contest

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We are most pleased to present
our finalists:

Cloister Walk
by Edward A. Dougherty
April 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th

Rebirth: Exploring Ancestral Connections
by Sally Bonn-Ohiaeriaku
April 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th and 20th

Tree of Saws
by Lee Patton
April 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th and May 1st

There will be three days of Fan Voting, from May 2nd to May 4th
Winners will be announced on May Day, which is May 5th.

Previous Lengthy Poem Contests:
Enjoy the Inaugural Lengthy Poem Contest
Enjoy the 2022 Lengthy Poem Contest
Enjoy the 2023 Lengthy Poem Contest
Enjoy the 2024 Lengthy Poem Contest

Lengthy Poem Contest Guidelines
Meet the Lengthy Poem Contest judge, Paul-Newell Reaves

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Meet the Finalists 

 

Including an image of our poets’ favorite chair– a Defenestrationism tradition.

 

 

Edward A. Dougherty is the author of many collections of poetry, and 2025 will see his Selected Poems (Future Cycle Press) and House, World, Heaven (Kelsey Books). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally Bonn-Ohiaeriaku is an Igbo Nigerian woman with a deep passion for art. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she is an environmentalist who actively volunteers with NGOs in her community to create a positive impact. Her works have been featured in themanifeststation.net, littleoldladycomedy.com, storyhouse.org, apocalypse-confidential.com, musepiepress.com (Shot Glass Journal), and africanclimatestories.online. You can find her on Twitter/X: @SallyBonn and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-bonn-ohiaeriaku-o7b

 

 

 

A native of California’s Mendocino Coast, Lee Patton has enjoyed life in Colorado since college. His fiction and poetry have been widely published and his plays produced nationwide. His first book of poems, In Disturbed Soil, is available from Kelsay Books. Individual poems have appeared in Threepenny Review,  Massachusetts Review, The California Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, Hawaii-Pacific Review, among many other journals and anthologies. His seventh novel, The Last Californians, is forthcoming from Regal Press.