Young Pegasus Poetry Competition

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1961 Selected Poets!

Judges: Amy Freeman Lee, Leah Carter Johnston, Bill Rips, Phyllis Steinberg

B

Kenneth J. Briggs, 10
"Tomorrow's World"

Ann Burkhalter, 8
"Pansies"

Linda Burton, 11
"My Icicle"

C

Sharon Christman, 13
"Wealth"

Tommy Cullinane, 12
"Alone"

D

Jo Ann Dickson, 16
"Atmospheric Affair"

E

Sally Ehlert, 8
"Mud"

G

Eugenia Gaines, 9
"I'm Glad"

Steve Garrigues, 17
"Final Acumens"

H

Sherryl Lynn Heavey, 16
"Life"

Susan Jane Hester, 6
"Trees"

K

Mary Lynnette Kilker, 17
"Embryo"

L

Lorraine Lazarine, 8
"Sad"

Martha Luby, 15
"The Coming of Winter"
"The Enchanted Isle"

M

William Gary Mallard, 15
"Christmas"

Robert Martinez, 13
"Nature's Jewels"

Helen Moorefield, 14
"The Street We Live On Has A Walk"

P

Carlos Perez, 9
"The City"

Steven Perron, 15
"The Farmer"

Melba Pitts, 13
"Winter"

R

Cynthia Reazin, 13
"God's Handiwork"

S

James Reynolds Saunders, 15
"The Fish"

Barbara Scharlach, 17
"Misfit"
"I Want To Know"

DeCourey Squire, 11
"Ode To My Cat"

T

Diana Tondre, 9
"Ripe Apples"

Janie Tovar, 13
"The Lake"

W

Bill Watkins, 17
"The Telephone"
"Tower of the Church"
"An Old Man Shuffles Through The Mire"

Pam Weger, 16
"Fall Of An Empire"
"Millennium"

Ronald Clark White, 16
"White"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1962 Selected Poets!

Judges: Bill Rips, Amy Freeman Lee, Leah Carter Johnston, Phyllis Steinberg

B

Margaret Baetz, 12
"Morning"

Chris Bartlett, 13
"The Guide"

Andrew Blank, 16
"In The Twilight of the Fallen Moon"
"Haiku No. 1-5"
"Dreams Lost In A Labyrinth"

Betty Ruth Byrd, 12
"Mother Nature"

C

Trisha Cunningham, 10
"Little Jesus, Are You Lonesome?"

D

Julie Dahlman, 8
"The Wind"

David Deaton, 12
"The Unanswered Question"

Jo Ann Dickson, 17
"A Snake-Charmer Passes By"

Diane Dillard, 13
"There Is No Escape"

Jerry Duque, 11
"My Prayer"

E

Michael Ellison, 9
"Love"

G

Phyllis Gander, 10
"Molecules"

John Gordon, 7
"Trees"

H

Averil T. Hafela, 14
"Twilight"
"The Seed"
"The Homecoming"

Darlene Hayes, 9
"The Ghostly House"

Sherrie Lee Hunt, 9
"Arithmetic"

K

Sherry Kay Kappler, 6
"Leaves"

Ted Kearl, 14
"Square"

Catherine Marie Kempe, 9
"Summer"

Charlie Rayner Kopecky, 7
"To My Teacher"

L

Martha Luby, 16
"Winter"

M

Doss McDavid, 13
"Ode On A Floogleberry"

Peggy Menhard, 12
"Here I Stand"

Randy Murdock, 12
"Tom"

P

Nannette Palmatier, 17
"To Catch Time"

R

Itza Rivera, 15
"The Mind"

S

Xavier Sanchez, 9
"Rain"

W

Ruben Whitney, 17
"Nobody Knows But God"

Terry Wong, 13
"The Fall of Day"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1963 Selected Poets!

Judges: Dr. Louis A. Schuster, Leah Carter Johnston, Phyllis Steinberg, Bill Rips, Amy Freeman Lee

A

Margaret Acevedo, 15
"Raindrops"

Jean Alexander, 17
"I'm Me--A Teen"
"Shallow Beauty"

Pam Mac Arthur, 14
"The Lake"

B

Lynda Bradford, 13
"Cloudy Night"

D

Terry Davidson, 17
"Sure?"

Carol De Forest, 14
"Call of the Inevitable"

Michael Delgado, 8
"Boats"

David Dreier, 16
"Achievement"

James J. Durkham, 17
"The Psychoneurotic's Psalm"

G

Jose Garza, 12
"Wide, Wonderful World"

Larry P. Gorbet, 17
"Almost Dawn"
"Or What?"
"Tired Man"

Durinda Gordon, 10
"Grass"

June Grant, 15
"Why Must I Care?"

H

Averil Hafela, 15
"My Hills"
"Perspective"
"Yellow Curtains"

Judith Lynn Hall, 9
"A Flower"

Ralph Dwain Hill, 15
"Lost Man"

Sally Hixon, 8
"The Little Ball"

J

Bob Judson, 11
"The Valley"

K

Megan Kampmann, 4
"This Is A Dead Birdie"

Mary Kamps, 9
"The Wind"

L

Lynette Lamb, 15
"The Hypocrite's Pit"

Charla Lawrence, 12
"The Forest"

M

Mary Helen Martinez, 15
"Ms. Autumn"

Pat Matocha, 10
"Kites"

Patricia McDaniel, 11
"Four Seasons"

Molly McDougal, 12
"A Pelican's Day"

Leanna McNeilly, 12
"The Day"

Barney Moravits, 15
"Time"

Keith Mullins, 9
"An Oak Grave"

R

William E. Rainey, 17
"Red Glow From Oblivion"

Aurora Rincon, 13
"Wind Is A Cat"

Robinson Robert, 15
"A Song"

Ellen Ruppel, 7
"Flower Store"

S

Judith Salge, 8
 "What I See"

Lee Schleimer, 16
"Midsummer Night"
"Mind Song"
"Three Nocturnes"

Ben A. Singleton, 10
"The Race of Night and Day"

David Standage, 11
"White Cloud Black Cloud"

Karen Stromberger, 17
"Little People"
"Religion"

Paul Stuehm, 14
"The Man"

T

The Northwood School Second Grade
"Our Thanks"

W

Steven Walker, 9
"Water"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1964 Selected Poets!

Judges: Leah Carter Johnston, Amy Freeman Lee, Bill Rips, Phyllis Steinberg

B

Loretta Beard, 16
"Let Me Play The Fool"

Monty Breedlove, 10
"The Leaves"

C

David Carter, 15
"My Mind Mesmerizes Me"

Henry G. Cisneros, 16
"My Day Was Sunny"

D

Sandra Dose, 11
"Space"

F

Bob Franza, 16
"Suffering Scorched"

G

Jessie Garcia, 8
"Rain"

Becky Diane Greene, 8 
"The Flower Shop"

Melissa Ann Grooms, 9
"Mr. Cupid?"

H

Averil Hafela, 16
"Two Steps In The Rain"

Julia Hamilton, 15
"In Spring"

Dubby Hankins, 12
"Monday Morn"

Kay Hannaman, 14
"The Plant And The Child"

John Haradon, 16
"Recipe For a Knife"

Mary Helen Hernandez, 17
"Love Remembers"

Ralph Hill, 16
"Fear Saps and Sickens"

Beryl Hughes, 13
"Yearning"

I

Josh Irwin, 13
"The Dreads of Battle"

J

Catherine Jimenez, 14
"The Starting Point"
"Disappointment"

K

Ivri Kumin, 17
"The Lion's Mouth"
"Sweepings"

M

Sylvia Martinez, 16
"The Night"

Chris McIntyre, 9
"Nature To An Indian"

Michele Mohnac, 14
"The Chipmunk"

Yvonne Munn, 17
"I Walk In The World"

P

Douglas Pautz, 11
"Pegasus"

Virginia Perez, 11
"Joy"

R

E. Mitchell Robin, 16
"The Ball"
"The Dust Tide"
"Contemplations Of A Bust"
"Repression"

S

Lee Ann Sherbert, 7
"The Sun"

Rosanne Son, 13
"What Could Be Better?"

Kitty Spalding, 14
"A Drifting Smile"

T

Patricia Tynan, 11
"The March Wind"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1965 Selected Poets!

Judges: Young People's Dept.

A

Glen Alderson, 10
"Dangerous Spring"

B

Steven Howard Bird, 14
"It Rained Today"

Sherry Burnette, 14
"Things Change"

E

Janet Eager, 12
"Through the Gruelous Grike"

Libby Eager, 15
"The Red Shoes"

F

Moorilee Ford, 15
"Elegy of a Rescue"

G

Oscar Green, 9
"Storks Come Out"

H

Averil Hafela, 17
"Shadow Highroad"
"Prairie Storm"
"Footsteps of a Dream"
"Wind Vision"

John Bartlett Haradon, 17
"Paradise Misplaced"
"I Think I Know Whose Woods These Are"

"Journey's End"

J

Wally Jacobs, 14
"Sailing"

Marie Jacoby, 13
"In the Memory of Youth"
"Moor Life"

Craig Johnson, 14
"I'm in Love"

L

David Locke, 10
"What is Gray"

Mary Louise Lopez, 13
"Selma"

Linda Mae Lucio, 11
"Spring Song"

M

Norma Martinez,12
"The Mourning Wind"

Kimberly McCord, 8
"How Do I Know"

Rudy Mesa, 15
"Nirvana"

N

Peggy Nash, 8
"Birds"

O

Leon Pierre Oehlers, 18
"Upon Poem Lines and Dreams"
"A Cloud Am I"
"Choir of Trees"
"Grandfather, Rocker, Fireplace"
"Downtown Creatures"
"Moon Fancied Child"
"Blackcat Coal"

R

Geoff Rips, 14
"Thoughts of a Well-to-Do Conservative"

S

Berkeley J. Smith, 14
"Orange"

John Swift, 14
"Of God"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1966 Selected Poets!

Judges: Leah Carter Johnston, Amy Freeman Lee, Bill Rips, Phyllis Steinberg, Robert Culmer

B

Shirley Beavers, 15
"Reflections"

C

Nita Coleman, 10
"The Dainty Dragon"
"Fall"

F

Laurie Fowlkes, 8
"Pill Bugs, Too!"

H

Mark Hamilton, 12
"Fire in the Forest"

Suzan Hang, 14
"The River"

Julie Hymes, 12
"Kindergarten is Tough (For the Teacher)

J

Marie Jacoby, 14
"Past Jericho"
"This World"
"Uniform Darkness"
"Wondering"

L

Charla Lawrence, 15
"Judge Me; Judge Me Wisely"

N

David Nichols, 14
"Uniform Darkness"

O

Deborah Olson, 11
"Little Boy Blue"

P

Karen Purvis, 14
"Consolation"
"Hangin' Round Harlem"
"Noon Witch"

R

Rose Marie Requenez, 9
"If I Were a Snowman"

S

Anne Marie Schmidt, 9
"Little Trees"

Mark Sullivan, 12
"A Lie"

V

Edward Valdez, 6
"Baby Jesus"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1967 Selected Poets!

Judges: Robert Culmer, Leah Carter Johnston, Phyllis Steinberg, Amy Freeman Lee, Bill Rips

A

Marcus Andis, 8
"My Haiku"

B

Brenda Bielefeld, 12
"A Child's Dream"

Margaret Bilderback, 18
"Warm"

Louis Botto, 16
"A Porch"
"Groping"
"Litterbug Man"
"Missive"
"The Immutable"
"The Scale That Balances"

Marta Burnett, 8
"The Wind At My Door"

C

Rebecca Cooley, 17
"Antagonists"
"Dissented Images"
"Senescent Sound"

E

Ray Edmison, 18
"from dust to..."

F

Steven Freymann, 7
"My Black Cat"
"My Brother"

Alma Fuss, 17
"Death"

G

Bob Goldman, 18
"Upon Screaming"

Billy Goodman, 15
"Memoirs"

Charles Gorman, 17
"In the Cold Wet Breath of Autumn"

E.T. Greff, 17
"Untitled"

Donna Grobe, 15
"Untitled"

Armando Guerrero, 12
"Surfing"

H

Suzy Haby, 15
"The Day"

Barbara Hamilton, 17
"The Twilight Dawn"

Mike Herrera, 11
"An Ocean"

J

Marie Jacoby, 15
"For a Little While"
"You Gotta Touch Sometime"

Catherine Jimenez, 17
"Almost Morning"

K

Karen Kalich, 12
"A Wave"
"The Colors of Love"
"The Soldier"
"To Be Alone"

L

Linda La Montagne, 18
"Death"

Joel M. Lee
"The Sniper"

M

Cindy Matterson, 18
"Rain"

N

Rodney Nairn, 17
"Mentations"
"On Reading Donne"

O

Irene Ochea, 18
"Love"

P

Mary Pena, 14
"Untitled"

Audrey Puryear, 12
"Haiku"

R

Kerry Riley, 17
"Lost in Time"

Geoff Rips, 16
"The Wake"

Tommy Roe, 15
"Untitled"

Linda Rosenbusch, 15
"Untitled"

Maureen Roussin, 15
"Suicide"

Pat Rudy, 15
"Untitled"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1968 Selected Poets!

Judges: Amy Freeman Lee, Claude Stanush, Joan Mellard, Bill Rips, Leah Carter Johnston

B

Joan Berman, 14
"Dissent"

Louise Botto, 17
"Cell of Mold"

C

Laura Castillo, 17
"Beach Walk at Dusk-Time"

D

Joanie Dyer, 13
"Thirteen"

F

Jerry Foster, 15
"The Winds of Change"

G

Sylvia Garcia, 12
"Early Dark"

H

Gloria Herrera, 16
"Untitled - Green eyed spider"

J

Mary Clare Jimenez, 17
"Minute Before Morning Mass"
"Tracings"

K

Karen Kahlich, 13
"A Drifting Death"

Ron Key, 15
"Untitled - As he ran"

Jay Kindervater, 17
"The Garden"

L

Barbara Lau, 16
"The Waking"

Cathy Lucas, 18
"If I Lived"

M

Ellen Mack, 13
"The Fog"

Dorothy McDougall, 10
"Autumn"

Jules Monier, 12
"Nature"

P

Melissa Pittard, 14
"Leaving Home"

Bruce Porter, 15
"Educational Blindsight"

Karen Purvis, 16
"Attic"

S

Mary Schnelker, 15
"But We Are Dead"

T

Peter Thomas, 12
"Thoughts"

U

Patricia Ann Ullmann, 7
"The Wonders of the Praying Mantis World"

V

Kallie Vamvoras, 9
"Penguins"

Congratulations to the Young Pegasus 1969 Selected Poets!

Judges: Amy Freeman Lee, Joan Mellard, Claude Stanush, Leah Carter Johnston

A

Jim Adams, 12
"The Mouse"

Laurie Anderson, 8
"Mommy's Gloves"

B

Kit Brooking, 17
"Reverie"

John Buckley, 17
"Night Ride"

C

Maureen Calhoun, 7
"Easter"

Alice Canestraro, 17
"Untitled - a most unsexy walk"

Janice Crist, 17
"Daffodillian"

D

Christopher Dunn, 17
"The Coming Night"
"When My Eyes in Quiet Fall"

G

Cindy Gardner, 12
"The Birth of a Flower"

Mike Gonzales, 9
"Haiku"

Patricia Ruth Goodman, 9
"The First Sign of Spring"

William Frank Goodman, 18
"Captive on the Porch Step"
"In Laureis Requiescat"

Karen Grisham, 11
"The Hungry Cow"

H

Cecilia Hoare, 12
"The War"

Glenn Holchak, 12
"A Sneeze"

Victor Hulbert, 14
"Haiku"

J

Pat Johnson, 15
"Geometry"

K

Jay Kindervater, 18
The Vacuum"

L

Joan Lambert, 13
"Leaf"

Elizabeth Leos, 18
"Reel of Voices"

M

Charles Mansfield, 12
"A Rugged Mountain of Patience"

Mimi Mead, 17
"A Parody of Life"

Cathy Meyer, 9
"Yellow's Path"

R

Tom Rickert, 10
"Night in the Woods"

Doyle Roth, 7
"Spring"

S

Mary Karen Schnelker, 16
"Untitled - Shoes"

naomi shihab, 16
"jerusalem"

T

Deborah Tebbenkamp, 11
"Song of the Four Seasons"

Alice Tirey, 18
"New York Harbor Alma Mater - 1969"
"Subsidy"

Ann Tudyk, 12
"Inside"

W

Laura Wills, 9
"Haiku"

Mary Word, 17
"Grey"