Sol Magazine's
Poet Laureate 2005 Edition
© 2005 SOL MAGAZINE
http://www.sol-magazine.org
Mary Margaret Carlisle, Managing Editor


Sponsors
Our thanks go to the following individuals and corporate sponsors who generously covered the cost of the competition.
Individual Sponsors: 
Mary Margaret Carlisle, Lois Lay Castiglioni, 
John Rice, Carol Rutherford, Leo Waltz, 

Corporate Sponsor:  Exotic Boxes
This year's prize is a beautiful handcrafted poem box from Barry Rachin of Exotic Boxes.  It is made of hickory with black walnut sides, and a lid of ash olive burl, and has an interior of a velveteen base lined with mahogany.  The box sports hinges of slotted brushed brass.  For more information about Mr. Rachin’s boxes, visit:  http://www.exoticboxes.net/

Project helpers:  Deb Hensen, Robin Stone
Poet Laureate Judges

Mary Margaret Carlisle, 
Craig Tigerman, 
Betty Ann Whitney, 
Paula Marie Bentley, 
Mary Burlingame, 
Lois Lay Castiglioni, 
John Rice, 
Craig Soderquist, 
Marsha Rose Steed

 
POET LAUREATE EDITOR
Mary Margaret Carlisle

 
SOL MAGAZINE'S POETS LAUREATE
Heather Jensen -
SuzAnne C. Cole -
Elizabeth Barrette -
Martha Kirby Capo -
Lois Lay Castiglioni -
John E. Rice -
John E. Rice -
Betty Ann Whitney -
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Poet Laureate 2005 Edition
2005 POET LAUREATE
Heather Jensen
SECOND PLACE
Carol Cotten
THIRD PLACE
Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper
FOURTH PLACE
Avonne Griffin
HONORABLE MENTION
Aparna Belapurkar
HONORABLE MENTION
Warner D. Conarton
HONORABLE MENTION
Maryann Hazen-Stearns
HONORABLE MENTION
Jeanette Oestermyer
HONORABLE MENTION
Kathy Paupore
HONORABLE MENTION
Gillian Wilkinson


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