Spirit of Niagara Award
Stan (Stanisław) Skrzeszewski
Ninety-Nine Iambic Pentameters Celebrating Our Niagara Falls
First Place Winner
Azaghen Ramasamy
Second Place Winner
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
Third Place Winner
Jennifer Filipowicz
Me and You and Rebecca and Drew
Honourable Mentions
Kunal Sharma
Jatin Garg
Ryan Boggs
Kunal Sharma
The Place Where Countries Lean Close
These poems are the winners of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project 25th Anniversary Poetry Competition. They will be published with all the other entrants in a print anthology to be published by Phylum Press. To reserve a copy of the anthology please email aporteus@niagarapoetry.ca. A companion volume exploring the poetry over 6 centuries will also soon be available, and may be reserved ahead of time.
Click on the title of each of the winners to see the complete poem.
Each poem was judged by a panel of 3 judges, and the first, second, and third prizes were the poems with the highest average scores. The judges recommended poems for the Spirit of Niagara Falls award, which was chosen by the curator of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project (Andrew Porteus). Many thanks to C.D. Onofrio, Sharon Frayne, and Gabriel Graham Piessens for judging.
An Honourable Mention was given to the highest scoring poem from each of the judges and the curator that did not receive one of the other awards.