2010 Reuben Rose Competition

Winners, and texts of poems

The judge for the 21st Competition, held in 2010, was Seymour Mayne, of Canada.

1st Prize: Judy Belsky – Breathing Light
2nd Prize: Valerie Carr Zakovitch– Heavenly Beings
3rd Prize: Rochelle Mass– I learned to be Cunning

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order of poet’s last name):

Judy Belsky- Grandmother’s Song
Tom Berman – Anger not the Gods
Tom Berman – My Granddaughter Wakes
Courtney Druz – Inventing the Alphabet
Miriam Green – Princess of Egypt
Wayne Lee – The Fortieth Day
Shimshon Leshinsky – What Big Teeth You Have
Rochelle Mass – That Summer
Rochelle Mass – When I was Young
Andrea Moriah – Yellow-eyed Cat
Andrea Moriah – The Heron
Andrea Moriah – Birds of War
Johnmichael Simon – Instructions to the Waiter at the Poetry Retreat
Sarah Wetzel – Myth of the Israeli Man
Dina Yehuda – Punctuation
Dina Yehuda – Two Figures in the Undergrowth

To read and download the texts of the winning poems, click here (PDF file).