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1997 Poetry on Buses Competition

The theme of 1997's Poetry Bus Project was "Glimpses: passing moments, captured thoughts." The poems focus on moments of life that are not unlike the world glimpsed outside a moving bus. Accompanying each poem is a short biographical statement by the poet.

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The 1997 Poets

From Denny Onto Wall
John Gorski

Wetland
Ann Batchelor Hursey

What This Is About
Thom Schramm

do you fly in your dreams?
Maureen O'Neill

Rain
Ross TenEyck

Vesper
Marjorie Rommell

Armed Only With Flashlights
Gary Winans

The Black Rain Freezes the Dumpster Wheels to the Ground
Devona Lahrman

All Men are Sisters
Richard Newcomb

Autumn in Holland
Jack Magai

Moonrise
Robert Randall

The Hedgehoggy Poem
Sophia Francine Hope-Wight

what the dentist saw
Richard Beck

New World for Eriko
Jo J. Adamson

Jail
Robert McAfee

I Love a Man Who Gave Blood Thirty Times
Tina Kelley

Snow, White
Joan Ross Blaedel

People of the rains
Eva McGinnis

When My Husband, Away on a Trip, Spoke Each Night for a Week About a Friend's Divorce
Sheila Bender

I Watch Two Girls, One Leaving
Sharon Hashimoto

Marketplace
Rinda M. Byers

Pirouette
Robert L. Schlosser

Thursday, February
Mercedes Lawry

Blind Gardener
Sarah Singer

transient
Alex Edelstein

Accidental
Sibyl James

Water Towns
Tracy Huddleson

Across the aisle
Julie Underhill

Pioneer Square Station
Jeff Crandall

The Bear as Buddha
Christiel Cottrell

Flowering Cherry
Bill Witherup

Chinatown Dragon Prayer
Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker

No one can see me
Karen Perry

This Dog Shall Pass
Michael G. Hickey

MidnightNo.130Song
robbo

Self Employment and the Single Parent
Mary McKinley

growin' up
Tracie D. Hall

Thanksgiving
Ellie Mathews

of season
Tamara M. Stull

Day Off
Bridget Hardy

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