Dialogue Poetry Challenge Winners
An inside look into the Vocal Curation Team's favorite poems from the Dialogue Poetry Challenge
Hannah Moore is a first-time grand prize winner with her dialogue poem, On Receipt of Bad News. This was a poem that genuinely engaged both with the exchange of our prompt, but also focussed on the way poetic rhythms of language could support the writer's conceit. It felt very truthful, too, the way one speaker wishes to ignore the news and focus on practicalities; there was a quiet heartbreak, here. Well done.
In second place is M. A. Mehan for A Chat With Hope. We could all use some hope right now, surely — but that’s not the only reason we admired this poem. It has a fable-like, folkloric sensibility that suits the subject and uses dialogue like call and response. Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, of course, but here the use of strict rhyme and rhythm suit the subject. “Where is your place, what did you find?”/ “I found more birds of my own kind.” Nicely done.
Runners-up include Josey Pickering with Until Tomorrow, here is a dialogue between parted lovers: “That’s my light, embracing you” — a beautiful image. CARCASS CABLE by Aaron Morrison takes us down to the Underworld with efficiency and humor. Obsidian Words in Equilibrium gives us a thoughtful poetic dialogue with the self. This was a complex challenge: the balance between a sense of exchange and a poetic sensibility sometimes a tricky one. Well done to all our creators — we love to be in dialogue with you.
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3:00 AM Challenge Winners
B. A. Durham’s False Memories blends dream and reality in a seamless mix. As his father, afflicted by Alzheimer’s, fades away, the narrator is haunted by a dream that may be a memory, returning to him insistently. The piece is full of wonderful detail (the father touching his lip where once there was a mustache, “but now he is clean-shaven—he has been for years” — and moving in revealing the complexities of a family’s life. A worthy winner which shows the power of dreams to influence us.
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Amazing
Congrats on your TS.
Congratulations to ALL Happy winners !!!!!!!!!
It's me! It's me! Ooooooh! It's me! I'd like thank the good people at vocal, my agent...wait, I don't have an agent. Wrong context. But woohoo! It's meeeee! Also congratulations to the other winners.
Congratulation to all winners
Congratulations to all!! Way to go!!
Congrats Hannah! 😃👏 and all the winners! 🥳
Congratulations everyone, awesome work!
Adding my voice to Bab's comment. You're missing 5 runners up, Vocal.
Congrats to the winners. 👏
Thank you for making me a runner up, and congratulations to everyone else who won, and those who participated in the challenge! Such a wonderful array of talent❤️
Hannah deserves the 🏆
Oops! Grand Prize: $500 Second Place: $200 15 Runners-up: $20 Only ten runner ups announced!
When you posted the challenge, it shows 15 runner ups. Why did you only announce ten?
Congratulations everyone! Proud to be writing alongside such talented people!
Congratulations to all the wonderful winners 🥳🥂🤩⭐️
Oh my God! I am so happy to see some of my favourite writer's/humans/friends on this win! So proud of all of you and I want to interview and pick your brains( that's grotesque in the 2000's generation). Silverado! Hannah! And more! Woot woot!!
Well done, folks!
Congrats to everyone! I'm honored to be a runner-up in such a stacked field of great poems!
Congratulations everyone.
Congratulations, all!!!
Congrats, everyone!! Looking forward to enjoying all of these undoubtedly brilliant pieces. :)
Congratulations everyone!!
Oh, another thing - the link takes us to the 3:00AM Challenge results. lol.
Woop congrats to those who placed - especially Hannah Moore for first place!