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2019 4th Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners

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First Place:

ultrasound gel
as she circles the probe
I read her face

— Madhuri Pillai

Second Place:

strip-o-gram
everyone’s standards
go lower

— Elizabeth Crocket

Third Place:

shriveled flesh
the impermanence
of bath bubbles

— Kelly Sauvage Angel

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2018 3rd Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners

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First Place:

prayer book
all the funeral cards
but hers

— Gregory Longenecker

Second Place:

new tabla
the smells of India
in one strike

— Nicholas Klacsanzky

Third Place:

moving out —
the perfection
of pomegranate halves

— Kerstin Park

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2017 2nd Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners

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First Place:

moving day
we take apart the bed
our parents dreamed on

— Gregory Longenecker

Second Place:

job interview —
dodging puddles
in my best shoes

— Marilyn Humbert

Third Place:

family dinner
adding salt
to my own wounds

— Lori A Minor

Read all 2017 honorable mentions and judges’ comments (PDF)