Sonnet Contest Winning Entries

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The 2009 New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Award

To Benefit the New England Shakespeare Festival

Judge: A.M. Juster

The New England Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Sonnet Contest.

Winners will be published in the Raintown Review.

$500 First Prize
"Monarch Mnemonic"
Mitchell Geller

Read by Andrew Kirtland

$250 Second Prize
"In Which You, Snakes, and Long-Gone Flowers Disappear"
after Courbet
Lynne Knight

Read by Michelle Kovacs

$150 Third Prize
"Approaching Seventy-Five: A Rant"
David Berman

Read by Lawrence Cranor

Honorable Mentions:
"At Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, England" - Steven Shields
"On Seeing Medea" - Frank Salvidio
"Class Reunion" - Peter Bloxsom

2009 Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest Winner:

"Amid Talk of Studio Layoffs, Donald Duck Pops the Question"
Melissa Balmain
Prize: A Shakespeare Rubber Ducky

Read by Nicole Greenbaum

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