Utah State Poetry Society Contests

The first poetry contest I ever entered was the 2016 Utah State Poetry Society Spring Contest. I think I only sent in two or three poems to the contest. One of them took second place in the introductory category. This gave me confidence and I have been submitting to the contest every year since. 2016 'The Bird Feeder' Second Place Category 35: Introduction Category 2017 'The English Sonnet' Second Place Category 14: Leroy Meagher Sonnet 'Those Letters' Second Honorable Mention Category 16: Vesta Crawford Short Poem 'went to the ocean' Third Honorable Mention Category 31: Haiku 2018 'Imagination' Special Recognition Category 18: Hungry Poets 'A Marvelous Hunting Dog' Third Honorable Mention Category 19: Pat Bader and Pat Kimber Memorial 'Cousin Dan' Third Place Category 27: Lloyd Murray Light Verse 2019 'Healthiest Town Ever Found' First Place Category 4: Betty Fowler Memorial (38 entries) 'Mother's Dream' First Honorable Mention Category 5: Webb-Kohler Memorial (48 entries) 'Taken Too Soon' First Place Category 6: Word Weavers Award (53 entries) 'My Amazing Grandpa' Special Recognition Category 15: Redrock Writers' Founders Award (46 entries) 'Old Mac' Third Honorable Mention Category 16: Wood Memorial (28 entries) 'Sail On! ' Third Honorable Mention Category 18: Von J. Barney Memorial (32 Entries) 'Dying for a Cookie' First Place Category 24: Leroy Meagher Humor (45 entries) 'Give Me an Hour's Notice' Third Honorable Mention Category 30: Love Poem (43 entries) 2020 'Marvelous Hunting Dog' First Honorable Mention Category 3: Ann C. Larson Memorial (51 Entries) 'My Mother's Sacrifice' Second Place Category 5: Verna Hartsoe Chiong Memorial (33 entries) 'Dr. Sharp' Third Place Category 10: Honoring Dr. Sheldon B. Johnson (12 entries) 'he no longer snores' Second Honorable Mention Category 12: Tanka (28 entries) 'I Love Those Country Crooners' First Honorable Mention Category 23: Alice M. Whipple Memorial (28 entries) 'I've Been Around a While' Special Recognition Category 29: Lloyd Murray Light Verse (22 entries) 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Bale of Hay? ' Third Place Category 30: Leroy Meagher Sonnet (23 entries) 2021 'It Really Happened' First Honorable Mention Category # 9: Celebrating a Small Town Childhood (26 entries) 'Old Baldy and Me' Second Place Category # 24: Dixie Poets Award (15 entries) 'I Love Those Country Crooners' Second Honorable Mention Category # 25: Rhyme & Reason Award (32 entries) 'Shopping Tips from an Old Pro' First Honorable Mention Category # 26: Martha Morrise Memorial (18 entries) 2022 'Impossible Mission' Third Honorable Mention Category 38: C. S. Watts Memorial (16 entries) 'My Legacy' Second Honorable Mention Category 35: Leroy Meagher Sonnet (22 entries) 'Languishing in Jail' Third Place Category 34: Lloyd Murray Light Verse (19 entries) 'Happy Hollow Nursing Home' First Place Category 31: Meagher Memorial (31 entries) 'The Pastor's Choice' First Honorable Mention Category 28: Eric Read Memorial (39 entries) 'It Really Happened' Special Recognition Category 22: Celebrating a Small Town Childhood (24 entries) 'Tail of a Skunk' Special Recognition Category 3: Betty Fowler Memorial (32 entries) 2023 'Swimming Naked in Snapping Turtle Pond' Third Honorable Mention (56 entries) Category 4: Valley Winds Award 'The Blue Pill' Third Place (25 entries) Category 6: Joseph K. and Orby Ann Crapo Memorial 'Good Life at the Rest Home' Second Honorable Mention (36 entries) Category 13: O. William Asplund Recognition 'How Pretzels Were Invented' Third Honorable Mention (28 entries) Category 19: Wes Vogler Appreciation Award [limerick] 'Mystery Solved' Third Honorable Mention (37 entries) Category 32: Meagher Memorial Fund UTSPS 'Lingering' Second Honorable Mention (26 entries) Category 36: Leroy Meagher Sonnet 2024 'Fur Elise' First Place (27 entries) Category 13: For Tiny 'Ant Highway' Third Place (34 entries) Category 26: Kolette Montague Memorial 'the wolf at twilight' Second Place (33 entries) Category 31: Haiku 'At the Breakfast Table' Third Honorable Mention (30 entries) Category 33: Meagher Memorial