March 5, 2010: Vasil Sotirov Sotirov for You Dance Up There
March 6, 2010: Tristain Abu Shury for Sonnet: Thee and I
March 7, 2010: Suzanne Valentine for Picture Our Love
March 8, 2010: Hayden Lee for Tribute to Imagination
March 9, 2010: baruyako for Tell Me, Where Is the Soul
March 10, 2010: Shelby Youngmark for Departure
March 11, 2010: Robert N. Fenrir for In the Wild of Society

Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, either by submitting poems or by reading and rating. I look forward to seeing many more wonderful poems next week.

Congratulations again winners!
Annie

February 26, 2010: Elizabeth Ravenwolf for Forsaking Paradise
February 27, 2010: Lane Henry for Missing You
February 28, 2010: Carrie-Ann Hernandez for Somewhere in Ireland
March 1, 2010: Roberta Keeler for Love’s Silent Call
March 2, 2010: Elizabeth M. Kempski for First Snow
March 3, 2010: Richard Collier for Dreamwalker
March 4, 2010: S.G. for The End

Our Daily Contest winners will each receive a $25 prize. You can learn more about the poetry contests by visiting our site.

Congratulations to our winners!
Annie

You can learn more about Lulu Poetry’s contests by reading our official rules. I hope to see more stellar poems entered in March!

Congrats Timothy!
Annie

February 19, 2010: Symera for We Have Lost Our Way
February 20, 2010: Irene Dagmar Kellogg for Sanctification
February 21, 2010: Margo Marie Morlock for Melt My Heart
February 22, 2010: Timothy Ivan Brumley for Spring’s Promise
February 23, 2010: Dean Cunningham for Spirare
February 24, 2010: NDL II for One Last Kiss
February 25, 2010: Alger Vidallon for I Am

Cheers,
Annie

February 12, 2010: Louise Lansdown for On Grief
February 13, 2010: Ovid69 for Beautiful Thing
February 14, 2010: Christine Emmert for Seasonal Dissatisfaction
February 15, 2010: Sean L. Sanders for Look Under My Table
February 16, 2010: Jim Mack Rainey for Mistress of the Sea
February 17, 2010: Maria Cecilia Willhelm for Awaken o’ Flower
February 18, 2010: Ma. Venus Kim S. Carlon for Broken Resistance

Congratulations again,
Annie

February 5, 2010: supernova42us1 for Shatters Beneath the Splashes
February 6, 2010: Olanihun Opeyemi Joe for Martyred, FEAR
February 7, 2010: Violet for Cycle of Scars
February 8, 2010: Maurice L. Barber for Birth of A Writer
February 9, 2010: Stephanie Hatfield for Autumn in Kentucky
February 10, 2010: prettyspl for Still & Quiet
February 11, 2010: Carole A. Delger for Key

Each of these hard working poets had won a $25 prize. Be sure to share poems with your friends and rate your favorites, since the contest winners are chosen from among the poems with the highest ratings by the community!

Congratulations again,
Annie

January 29, 2010: Vrej Torikian for Dreadful Arms
January 30, 2010: John Berch for Once Again
January 31, 2010: Tara Dangelo for Winter
February 1, 2010: Maria I. Gutierrez for To Hear Your Voice
February 2, 2010: Carmen Cheryll Popp Goskowicz for Earthquake of Grey Death
February 3, 2010: Johnny Wilding for A Love…
February 4, 2010: Linda D. Blakely for Cerulean Canopy

Enjoy everyone!
Annie

Be sure to keep rating your favorite poems, since the judges select winners from the poems with the highest ratings by the community. Visit our official contest rules to learn more.

Congratulations again William!
Annie

January 22, 2010: Lieselotte Emery for The Hope Chest
January 23, 2010: Christina for Bones
January 24, 2010: Christine Elaine Gwaltney for White Lillies
January 25, 2010: Patrick Valance for Bare
January 26, 2010: Keith Andrews for The Ego
January 27, 2010: Alex Vorosmarthy for The Strait of Messina- To Travel the Path of Life
January 28, 2010: Christopher Rei Anderson for Guardians of Time

Our Daily Contest winners will each receive a $25 prize. You can learn more about the poetry contests by visiting our site.

Congratulations again to our winners!
Annie

Last April, Lulu set out to change www.poetry.com for the better, to make it a place that creates real value for the poets using it. In the last ten months, we have been astonished by the sheer amount of creativity and effort that has sprung forth from the strong community of over 7 million poets using Lulu Poetry. Lulu is proud to host the largest collection of poetry in the world and we have worked hard to further develop that community by providing them with the tools to publish and inspire creativity. Lulu has instituted daily, monthly, and yearly poetry contests that have rejuvenated many authors’ excitement for their craft while helping to improve their work through ratings. It makes us so happy to see people do what they love, and we have awarded over $9,000 in prizes so far this year. Now, Timothy will receive a grand prize of $5,000 for the Yearly contest.

Lulu Poetry is home to over 14 million poems. Several poets have hundreds of works listed and we average over 3,000 newly submitted poems each week. We’re always attracted to any passionate group of authors with an urge to create and the Lulu Poetry community is definitely that. Selecting the first yearly winner ever was not easy. Our users are engaged by reading, rating, and sharing poems and we are thrilled that the community helped to make the winning choice by rating poems they enjoyed. The poetry contests are ongoing with new winners announced each week. To participate just submit your poetry to Lulu Poetry’s free site.

Lulu Poetry is always looking to grow and our ongoing goal is to help even more people interested in poetry spark their creativity and enjoy the community we are developing. Lulu Poetry users are willing to go the extra step to put their work and ideas out there for the world to see and we respect their passion and dedication. Being backed by a company that has helped more than 1 million authors in 80 countries has our poetry authors excited. At Lulu, we know that the annual contest is more than just prize money, it’s validation for our poets‘ hard work and the hard work of the entire poetry community.