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Poem of the Year Contest Winners
| 2021 | ||
| 1st Prize | Cassandra Rachel Myers | Offering |
| Honourable Mention | John Elizabeth Stintzi | All Hearts Feed Horses |
| Readers’ Choice | Cassandra Rachel Myers | Medusa Calls the Rape Crisis Line |
| 2020 | ||
| 1st Prize | Leah MacLean-Evans | Change is a Slow Erosion |
| Honourable Mention | Cassandra Myers | Lake Baptiste Ungenders Me |
| Readers’ Choice | Melissa Davidson | remedies for cross Atlantic dispersion |
| 2019 | ||
| 1st Brize | Sadiqa de Meijer | The Imaging Department |
| Honourable Mention | Medrie Purdham | The Thimble’s Bucket List |
| Reader’s Choice | Heather Birrell | Snow Day Poem |
| 2018 | ||
| 1st Prize | Leah Horlick | You Are My Hiding Place |
| Honourable Mention | Shaun Robinson | How Soon, How Likely, How Severe |
| Reader’s Choice | Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang | Women’s Work |
| 2017 | ||
| 1st Prize | Kayla Czaga | Harvest Moon Lantern Festival |
| Honourable Mention | Blair Trewartha | Breach |
| Reader’s Choice | Phillip Crymble | Biography of a Story |
| 2016 | ||
| 1st Prize | Doyali Islam | site |
| Honourable Mention | James Langer | As SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Reader’s Choice | Curtis Leblanc | In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Contribution to UMA |
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| 2015 | ||
| 1st Prize | Kevin Shaw | Turing’s Time Machine |
| Reader’s Choice | Amber Homeniuk | by the time he hit the floor |
| 2014 | ||
| 1st Prize | Kristina Bresnen | Consider the Lilies |
| Reader’s Choice | Matt Jones | Wounded Village |
| 2013 | ||
| 1st Prize | Shane Neilson | The Barn |
| Reader’s Choice | E. Alex Pierce | Medway River, Carousel |
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| 2012 | ||
| 1st Prize | Jacob McArthur Mooney | The Fever Dreamer |
| Reader’s Choice | Michael Fraser | Going to Cape |
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| 2011 | ||
| 1st Prize | Anne Marie Todkill | Wash Day |
| 2nd Prize | Maurice Mierau | The impassioned ex-formalist Pulitzer Prize-winning womanizing alcoholic jumps off a bridge |
| 3rd Prize | Ian Williams | Please Print Clearly in Block Letters |
| Reader’s Choice | Barbara Pelman | Between the Heartbeats |
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| 2010 | ||
| 1st Prize | Shane Neilson | New Year’s Day |
| 2nd Prize | Bren Simmers | Chickens |
| 3rd Prize | Lise Gaston | Fuse |
| Reader’s Choice | Susan Braley | Traces |
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| 2009 | ||
| 1st Prize | Patricia Young | The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories |
| 2nd Prize | Susan Buis | In alabastrine (Edith Lake) |
| 3rd Prize | E. Alex Pierce | Common Loon |
| Reader’s Choice | Jim Johnstone | Canadian Gothic |
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| 2008 | ||
| 1st Prize | Patricia Young | The Hickock Girls in the Front Pew Address the Platypus |
| 2nd Prize | Karen Solie | Prayers for the Sick |
| 3rd Prize | Moez Surani | Chopping Wood on Ivan’s Farm |
| Honourable Mention | Aurian Haller | excerpt from Speechless |
| Reader’s Choice | Susan Stenson | To See You Like This |
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| 2007 | ||
| 1st Prize | Susan Elmslie | Box |
| 2nd Prize | Degan Davis | Winter |
| 3rd Prize | Aurian Haller | selection from Seamless |
| Final Judge |
John Steffler |
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| 2006 | ||
| 1st Prize | Bren Simmers | Out Walking |
| 2nd Prize | Michael Reynolds | Castor Gulo (poem of a beaver becoming a wolverine) |
| 3rd Prize | Heidi Garnett | Water Rituals |
| Final Judge |
Don Domanski |
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| 2005 | ||
| 1st Prize | Sandra Kasturi | Old Men, Smoking |
| 2nd Prize | Irene Livingston | Open My Drawers |
| 3rd Prize | Karen Hofmann | Cock Pheasant |
| Final Judge |
Mildred Tremblay |
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| 2004 | ||
| 1st Prize | Susan Stenson | The Crazy Maps |
| 2nd Prize | matt robinson | how we keep it together |
| 3rd Prize | Linda Rogers | The Walled Garden |
| Final Judge |
Lorna Crozier |
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| 2003 | ||
| 1st Prize | Harold Rhenisch | Tao Hill |
| 2nd Prize | Jannie Edwards | Blood Opera The Raven Tango Poems |
| 3rd Prize | Deanna Young | Swimming Lessons |
| Final Judge |
Derek Wynand |
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| 2002 | ||
| 1st Prize | Maureen Scott Harris | Be the River |
| 2nd Prize | Alison Pick | Infant Abandoned In High Park |
| 3rd Prize | Deanna Young | Recent Sightings |
| Final Judge |
Mary Dalton |
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| 2001 | ||
| 1st Prize | Joelene Heathcote | How the Dying Move to Water |
| 2nd Prize | Maureen Scott Harris | The Drowned Boy |
| 3rd Prize | Pamela Swanigan | How to Win at Rummy |
| Final Judge |
Steven Heighton |
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| 2000 | ||
| 1st Prize | Sue McLeod | God of Pockets |
| 2nd Prize | Sue Wheeler | Darkening |
| 3rd Prize | Michael V. Smith | Particulars |
| Final Judge |
Elizabeth Philips |
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| 1999 | ||
| 1st Prize | Richard Lemm | Rationed |
| 2nd Prize | Elizabeth Philips | Reply to the Minister of Lilies |
| 3rd Prize | Jim Roberts | Myth, Ritual and the Yorkdale Cloverleaf |
| Final Judge |
Brian Bartlett |
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| 1998 | ||
| 1st Prize | Wayne Tompkins | Hidden Register |
| 2nd Prize | Anne Simpson | Meanwhile, in Ithaca |
| 3rd Prize | Donna Langevin | My Son, Improvising on the Violin to Fauré |
| Final Judge |
Patricia Young |
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| 1997 | ||
| 1st Prize | Marlene Cookshaw | Open and Close |
| 2nd Prize | Barbara Schott | Blue Snow |
| 3rd Prize | Linda Rogers | Adagio in G Minor |
| Final Judge |
Barry Dempster |
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| 1996 | ||
| 1st Prize | Mildred Tremblay | Astonishing Creations |
| 2nd Prize | Sue Wheeler | Negative Space, 1980 |
| 3rd Prize | Sophia Kaszuba | Good Food |
| Final Judge |
Robyn Sarah |
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