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Daily Poetry Contest Winners for July 3-9th

It is always exciting to announce the winners of Lulu Poetry’s Daily Contest, and this week is no exception. Congratulations to you all.

July 3, 2009: Rebecca G. Artus-Scheifla for 5th Avenue
July 4, 2009: Tina Baradaran for Be Lively
July 5, 2009: Donald Roy Sprunt for Anniversary For All
July 6, 2009: Saundra S. Revere for You Ask Me if I Love You
July 7, 2009: Debra D. Gamble for Inspired By
July 8, 2009: Hazel B. Wright for Angels
July 9, 2009: Beth Gibbons for Grandchildren

Each of these poets has earned a $25 prize for winning the Daily Contest. Be sure to share poems with your friends and rate your favorites, since the contest winners are chosen from the poems with the highest ratings by the community!

Check out our contest rules to learn more.

Congratulations everyone!
Annie

Monthly Poetry Contest Winner for June

Everyone please join me in congratulating the winner of Lulu Poetry’s Monthly Contest for June, Carolyn Paulette Carter for her poem A Song for My Dad.

As the winner of the Monthly Contest, Carolyn will also receive a prize of $250.

Great job!
Annie

Editing and removing poems temporarily on hold

Dear Poets,

Over the last few months, we have been working diligently to build great new features for Lulu Poetry, and it is almost time to show you what we have done! One of the most anticipated features that we are working on is improving online editing of poems and allowing users to delete their own poems. Soon, you will have even greater control of your poetry and how it is presented on the site.

While we are working on this, poem editing and removal have been put on hold for just a few weeks. We appreciate your patience in the mean time, but by the end of the month you will have a better experience editing and removing your poems.

Please continue to post as many new poems to the site as you like, and keep entering the poetry contests. Our prolific community creates hundreds of new poems on Lulu Poetry every day, and we look forward to seeing each one.

Thank you,
Annie

Daily Poetry Contest Winners June 26 – July 2nd

Congratulations to the winners of this week’s Daily Poetry contest!

June 26, 2009: Askin Ozcan for Shake It, Baby!
June 27, 2009: Thomas Foels Hopkins for I’m Just Tired
June 28, 2009: Vasco M. Resendes for All About Her
June 29, 2009: Dale Fenner for The Restless Sea
June 30, 2009: Reema Gabriel Lopez for A Tribute To All The Soldiers
July 1, 2009: Kenneth Huntsinger for Beauty From My Eyes
July 2, 2009: Sandra Denise Jensen for Hope

Great job everyone!
Annie

Daily Poetry Contest Winners for June 19-25th

There is always something new to read at Lulu Poetry. Our active community members have submitted, rated, and shared thousands of new poems this week. Among the highest rated poems are this week’s winners of the Daily Poetry Contest.

June 19, 2009: Karl Vopni for The Amendable Redemption
June 20, 2009: Mike A. Shaughnessy for Death of a Good Man
June 21, 20009: Brian J. Cheville for The Dance of Love
June 22, 2009: Hamlet Pericles for You Might As Well Live
June 23, 2009: Christina Marie Gorchos for My Savior
June 24, 2009: Jodi Eichhorn for My Teacher
June 25, 2009: Celestine E. Ebegbulem for Redeeming Feature

Congratulations to our winners!
Annie

Daily Poetry Contest winners for June 12-18th

Congratulations to this week’s winners of Lulu Poetry’s Daily Contest!

June 12, 2009: Salvatore Buttaci for The Magic of Love
June 13, 2009: Penka Stefanova Paskaleva for 9/11/2001
June 14, 2009: Anthony Bratsch for Shoe Proposal
June 15, 2009: Thomas Randy West for Sunrise and Sunset
June 16, 2009: Laurie A. Lanza for My Grandmother Teresa
June 17, 2009: Brenda L. Pamir for Believe
June 18, 2009: James Darrell Day for Mobile Advisory Team

I’m sure you are all aware that each of these winners has earned a $25 prize, in addition to some big bragging rights. Since contest winners are chosen from among the poems with the highest ratings, we appreciate all of you taking time to read poems and rate your favorites.

Cheers!
Annie

Daily Poetry Contest Winners for June 5-11th

June is off to a great start, with even more winners of Lulu Poetry’s Daily Contest.

June 5, 2009: Dominic Manzella for Depths of Dreams
June 6, 2009: G. Donald Cribbs for An Affair Between the Earth and Sky
June 7, 2009: Louis Joseph Barbier for Blustery Cold
June 8, 2009: MNR for With All Your Heart
June 9, 2009: Nadine S Al Hadabi for Meaningful
June 10, 2009: Thelma Parry for Our Littlest Angel
June 11, 2009: Terri Hairston for Faith

Congratulations to our winners!
Annie

Monthly Poetry Contest Winner for May

I am very excited to announce that the winner of Lulu Poetry’s Monthly Contest for May is Franco Dario Lombardo Llull for his poem With One Kiss.

With One Kiss was a winner of the Daily Contest earlier in May, and has gotten consistently high ratings all month. In addition to this recognition, Franco will receive $250 as a prize for winning the Monthly Contest.

Congratulations Franco!
Annie

Daily Poetry Contest Winners for May 29 - June 4

Here you go everybody - the poetry contest winners for the past week!  Congratulations to all the participants!

May 29, 2009:  Kartel Onyekachi Chidiagba for Goodbye Hills and Shores
May 30, 2009:  Isabel Watt for Ocean
May 31, 2009:  Varsha Chandru Bhatia for In My Closet
June 1, 2009:  Stephan Curtis Jenson for Inner Me Inner You
June 2, 2009:  Judith Ann Williams for Fallen Hero
June 3, 2009:  Rita Hannele Hawi for The Sun
June 4 2009:  Ahmed Mohamed Khaled for More and More

Winners are determined by the highest ratings.  We can’t name new winners unless people rate poems, so get reading!

Thanks so much,
AJ

Daily Poetry Contest Winners for May 22- 28th

Here at Lulu Poetry, we know that you write because you love it and have something to share with the world. It is still nice to be recognized for your efforts, though. So congratulations to the most recent winners of Lulu Poetry’s Daily contest.

May 22, 2009: Ann Marie Stoltz for Take Flight
May 23, 2009: Stephanie Kim Trieu for Love Blossoms
May 24, 2009: N. Ruth Mills for Elvis Is the King!
May 25, 2009: Jeff J. Cvitak for Going On
May 26, 2009: Victoria Clarice Beard forThe Real Meaning
May 27, 2009: Debbie Sauer for Remnants of Regret
May 28, 2009: Joseph Skidmore for Untitled

May is drawing to a close, and it will soon be time to announce the winner of the $250 Monthly contest prize. Be sure to keep rating your favorite poems!

Cheers,
Annie

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