Reuben Rose Winning Poems 2021
Results of the 2021 Reuben Rose Poetry Competition
Judges:
- Ricky Rapoport Friesem - last year's First Prize winner.
- Jane Seitel - last year's Second Prize winner.
- David Caplan - this year's Overseas Judge.
First prize — Yiskah Rosenfeld, USA – The Morning After a Vipassana Retreat. To hear a recording of Yiskah reading her poem, click here.
Second prize — Amy Small-McKinney, USA — Small Stone. To hear a recording of Amy reading her poem, click here.
Third prize — Elizabeth Edelglass, USA – No Mention. To hear a recording of Elizabeth reading her poem, click here.
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order of poem title)
A Gentle Villanelle – by Judy Koren, Israel
A Poem for My Father – by Judith R. Robinson, USA
Arabic 1973 by Robert Dashevsky, USA
Bookmark by Rivka Nomberg, USA
Rachav – by Dina Yehuda, Israel.
Red Bead – by Reuven Goldfarb, Israel
The Bipolar Stingray – by Ian Rodney Pettit, Australia
The Kibbutz – by Michael Greenberg, Israel
The Return - by Avraham Schonbrunn, Israel
Things It Sucks to Hear – by Celia Merlin, Israel
To read and download the texts of the three winning poems and the ten that gained Honourable Mention click here (PDF file).