| ALABAMA | Betty Chestnutt | "Pell Mell" |
| ARKANSAS (tie) | Verna Lee Hinegardner | "When Wild Canaries Come" |
| Diane Stefan | "Phone Call" | |
| CALIFORNIA (tie) | Erna Hennessy | "Time" |
| Genya S. Ehrlich | "To My Yiddish Mama" | |
| COLORADO | Ida Fasel | "Moonstone" |
| CONNECTICUT | Carol Leavitt Altieri | "A Dream of Saving the Hammonasset River" |
| FLORIDA | Carrillee Collins-Burke | "I Called Him Duke" |
| GEORGIA (tie) | Jeanne Osborne Shaw | "Abalone" and "The Shredder" |
| ILLINOIS | Dorothy H. Bizer | "For Crying Out Loud!" |
| IOWA | Lila Borg Rohrer | "calendar" |
| KENTUCKY | Marcus E. Omer | "The Clash of Two Cultures" |
| MASSACHUSETTS | Dr. Marian Shapiro | "Calling" |
| MICHIGAN | Sallie A. Hinds | "Dreaming" |
| MISSOURI | Ken Roller | "Of Wine, Cheese and Love" |
| (Judge's Awards | Jerry-Mac Johnston | "The Hereafter" |
| certificates only) | Michael A. Wells | "Night Wishes" |
| NEVADA | Jane Logan | "Echoes" |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | P.M. Underhill | "That Moment" |
| NEW JERSEY | Maureen Cannon | "Which Tree?" |
| NEW MEXICO | Barbara R. DuBois | "Roses and Peppers" |
| NEW YORK | Kimberlee Edgecomb | "The Angels Came" |
| NORTH CAROLINA | Lynn Veach Sadler | "Milk" |
| OHIO | Helen Webb | “Mrs. Noah” |
| OKLAHOMA | Dena R. Gorrell | "Autumn Morning Praise" |
| OREGON | Robert Hoeft | "The Most Magnificent Fishing" |
| PENNSYLVANIA | Jeffrey Jubelirer | "I Think" |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | Verna Puntigan | "By Flickering Light" |
| TENNESSEE | Claude Blackwood | “Goodbye Dragonfly" |
| TEXAS | Yvonne Nunn | "Tales of Night" |
| UTAH (tie) | Stewart C. Harvey | "The Clone" and "Thoughts of You" |
| WASHINGTON | Frieda Risvold | "Aurora Borealis" |
| WYOMING | Eugene V. Shea | "The Helping Hand" |
| INTERNATIONAL-Malaysia | Agatha Lai (Missouri State Poetry Society) | “The Strut of Flowers” |