LIST OF 2008 HONOR SCROLL Winners
State	Poet's Name	City	Title of Poem
ARIZONA	Noble F. Collins	Payson	“Skipping Stones at Wounded Knee Creek”
ARKANSAS	C. J. Clark	Hardy	“Of Wine and Cider Time”
	John W. Crawford	Arkadelphia	“A Permanent Friend”
	Pat Durmon	Norfolk	“Paralysis of Half the Face (in Honor of Anthony Wayne Bland)
	Verna Lee Hinegardner	Hot Springs	“Time—The Coin of Your Life”
	Faye Williams Jones	N. Little Rock	“Sister Joy's Potato Salad”
	Barbara Longstreth Mulkey	Little Rock	“Down the Road”
	Marilyn Camden Norton	Hot Springs Village	“A Simple Golden Band”
	Donna Alexander Smith	Greenbrier	“Ranching”
	Diane Auser Stefan	Mountain Home	“He's Coming”
CALIFORNIA	Dewell H. Byrd	Eureka	“How She Moves”
	Genya Ehrlich	San Francisco	“I Praise”
	Ninette Freed	Palm Desert	“Aubade”
	Helen Graziano	Claremont	“Midlife Musings”
	Erna Hennessy	San Francisco	“From a Distance”
	M. D. LeDoux	Sacramento	“Easter Weeps”
	A. Peri	Foster City	“When Did His Music Die?”
	Cecil Simpson	San Diego	“Stand Together”
	Ariel Smart	Saratoga	“Slinging Hash”
	William H. Wallace, Jr.	Alta Loma	“Coffee cup memories, , , the bookends of my life”
	Hope Warriner	San Diego	“Mr. Bee on a Lawn”
COLORADO	Ida Fasel	Denver	“Missing in Action” (Golden Pen Award)
FLORIDA	Carrillee Collins Burke	Sarasota	“The Lonely Poet”
	Valerie Esker	Beverly Hills	“Old Poets Never Die, They Just Re-verse”
	Henry Greenfield	Cutler Bay	“Return to the Wild”
	Lena E. Lewin	Ocala	“Metamorphis”
	Betty Prisendorf	Merritt Island	“Lingering Scents”
	Virginia Artrip Snyder	Delray Beach	“The Last Goodbye”
	Katherine A. Sherin-Zauner	Venice	“Growing Game”
	Barbara Lee Weston	Miami	“A Young Poet Reads His Work”
GEORGIA
	Emery L. Campbell	Lawrenceville	“Anniversary”
	Henry N. Goldman	Augusta	“Elegy of a Poet”
	Jeanne Osborne Shaw	Decatur	“Starting Over Wall”
	Dale M. Tushman	Brunswick	“Little Crimes”
ILLINOIS
	Cheri L. Ahner	Oak Lawn	“Thanksgiving Legacy”
	John Llewellyn Axtell	Champaign	“My Brothers”
	Dorothy H. Bizer	Quincy	“Invitation”
	Patricia A. Hare	Woodstock	“The Old Lady in the Shoe”
	Glenna Holloway	Naperville	“Critic's Review of a Leading Role”
	Joy Rainey King	Herrin	“Empty Nest”
	Beth Staas	Westmont	“Coming to America”
INDIANA	Glenna Glee	Anderson	“One More Taste”
	Mary A. Couch	Noblesville	“Summer Dance”
	Dianna Wilder	Winamac	“Kneeling by the Rose”
	Robert G. Ummel	Fort Wayne	“The Eagle or The Turkey”
	Alexandra M. Zannis	Fort Wayne	“The Last of the Wild Oats”
IOWA	Eleanor M. Dirksen, Ph.D.	Long Grove	“We'll Be Here”
	Louise Hunt	Atlantic	“Windswept”
	John McBride	Bettendorf	“Cedars under Snowfall”
	Grace Rasmussen	Manilla	“In Disguise”
KENTUCKY	E. Gail Chandler	Shelbyville	“Independence Day”
	Martha Victoria Rosett Lutz	Lexington	“Resilience”
	Marcus E. Omer	Sturgis	“The Sacred Body”
	Betty Stuedle	Pewee Valley	“The Great Depression was Not a Great Time”
MAINE	Sherry B. Hanson	Brunswick	“Asters in the Ditch” (For Sue Cary)
MASSACHUSETTS	Ruth Harriet Jacobs	Wellesley	“Instructions”
	Helena Levine-Ryan	Newton	“My Friend”
MICHIGAN	Owen B. Cathey	Ann Arbor	“Second Week of Advent”
	Denise A. Dewald	Au Gres	“Real Christmas Joy”
	Lori Goff	Walled Lake	Rhine Valley Vineyards”
	Sallie A. Hinds	Au Gres	“To Be”
MISSOURI	Faye Adams	De Soto	“A Life of Their Own”
	Dan Adkison	Bolivar	“The Child Within”
	Albert Beck	Monroe City	“Curiosity Haiku”
	Robert E. Browne	Winfield	“Ships Long Past Demise”
	Lilah Contine	Saint Charles	“The Wolves of Whales Bay”
	Velvet Fackeldey	Lebanon	“Choices”
	Dave Gregg	Jefferson City	“chance of snow”
	Albert Ray Horrell	Saint Charles	“Last Message”
	Jerry-Mac Johnston	Springfield	“A Band of Brothers”
	Betty L. McLane-Iles	Kirksville	“The Debt”
	Roberta Page	Lebanon	“Phobia”
	Kenneth Roller	Dadeville	“Golden Lode”
	Michael A. Wells	Independence	“Tiananmen Mother” (for Zhao Ziyang)
NEW HAMPSHIRE	P. M. Underhill	Concord	“Change and Growth:
NEW JERSEY	Gerry Di Gesu	Union	“Winter Clouds”
	Claire Levitt	Lawrenceville	“My Psychiatrist”
NEW YORK	Gwendolyn Eisenmann	Chestnut Ridge	“He Left”
	Naomi Heilig	New York City	“Wondering”
	Herbert B. Siegel	Long Beach	“Alias Pasta”
NORTH CAROLINA	Lynn Veach Sadler	Sanford	“Blues-Paved Road”
	Joyce A. Taylor	Murphy	“Evening Sound”
OHIO	Carmine Talarico	Cincinnati	“Whither Goest?”
OKLAHOMA	Carol Dee Meeks	Broken Arrow	“Redefining Clovis”
PENNSYLVANIA	Catherine Ferrick	Conneaut Lake	“Broken Vowels”
	Jim Greenwald	New Paris	“Inside My Dreams”
	Jeffrey Jubelirer	Philadelphia	“Sincerely Yours”
SOUTH CAROLINA	Verna Puntigan	Spartanburg	“The Sand Sings”
TEXAS	Barbara Blanks	Garland	“Without Doubt”
	Von S. Bourland	Happy	“An Angel Embraces Sisterhood”
	Deborah K. Frontiera	Houston	“Forward into the New Millennium”
	Zee Mink-Fuller	Burleson	“Thank You Note from Foreign Soil”
	Yvonne Londres	San Antonio	“Shiver Sliver Moon”
	Sheila Tingley Moore	San Antonio	“Cycles”
	Yvonne Nunn	Hermleigh	“A Texas Wind Escorts Fire”
	Viola S. Pawkett	Corpus Christi	“The Old Bench”
	Sheila B. Roark	Euless	“His Thoughts Dance”
	Billie Stroud	San Antonio	“Summertime Christmas”
UTAH	Vera Ogden Bakker	West Bountiful	“Ode to an Earthworm”
	Theda Bassett	Salt Lake City	“Winters Remembered”
	N. Colwell Snell	Salt Lake City	“Wild Asparagus”