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PRIZE POEMS ANTHOLOGIES

  

After contest winners are announced at each year's NFSPS convention, the collection of prize-winning poems from our fifty contests are published in the anthology, Encore. Beginning with the 2016 volume, Encore may be purchased on Amazon.com.


   Copies of many earlier anthologies may be ordered through NFSPS.To open the Order Form click HERE and print it out. If you want to keep the order form on your computer, click the download icon or the Ctrl+s keys on your keyboard then indicate where you wish to save the form then click save; if you just want to print it click your printer icon or the Ctrl+p keys on your keybord.


Here are the books that are available: 

 

 


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2019 Edited by Kathy Lohrum Cotton.
Anna, Il NFSPS, 2019.


The biggest prize winner in the book is  "On the Local Train from Orvieto to Florence, Italy" by Wilda Morris, Bollingbrook, IL,.. This anthology is available for $13.00 plus postage from NFSPS or @ Amazon.com

 

2019

      


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2018 Edited by Kathy Lohrum Cotton.
Anna, Il NFSPS, 2018.


The biggest prize winner in the book is  "Un Deseo (A Wish)" by Jocelyn Ajami, Chicago, IL,.. This anthology is available for $13.00 plus postage from NFSPS or @ Amazon.com

 

2018

      


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2017 Edited by Kathy Lohrum Cotton.
Anna, Il NFSPS, 2017.


The biggest prize winner in the book is "Hardwood" by Christine Irving, (Denton, TX).. This anthology is available for $13.00 plus postage from NFSPS or @ Amazon.com

 



      





ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2016 Edited by Kathy Lohrum Cotton.
Anna, Il NFSPS, 2016.


The biggest prize winner in the book is "Trespass Vision" by David Bond Carbondale, Il). This anthology is available for $13.00 plus postage from NFSPS or @ Amazon.com



      

 

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2015
Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2015.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "The Whole Pie" by Maurine Haltiner (Salt Lake City, UT). This anthology is available  for $15.00 plus postage.
 


      

 

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2014 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2014.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "Insomniosis" by Debra Kuss (Corbin, KY). This anthology is available for $15.00 plus postage.
 

 

 

 

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2013 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2013.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "The Murderer's Mother Wonders" by Ginny Lowe Conners (W. Hartford, CT). This anthology is available for $15.00 plus postage.
 


      

 

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2012 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2012.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "Nothing Personal, CD Wright" by Maurine Haltiner (Salt Lake City, UT). This anthology is available for $15.00 plus postage.

 



      




ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2011 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2011.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "Last Letter From Grandfather" by George Handy (Ashville, NC). This anthology is available for $12.00 plus postage.
 




 


      



ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2010 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2010.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "Galileo's Eye" by Janet McCann (College Station, TX). This anthology is available for $12.00 plus postage.
 



      


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2009 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2009.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "The Story Melting" by Margo Lagattuta (Rochester, MI). This anthology is available for $12.00 plus postage.

 





 


 
ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2008 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey. San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2008.

The biggest prize winner in the book is "You Sing Your Brothers" by Helen Keith Beaman of (Provo, Utah). This anthology is available for $10.00 plus postage.

 


   2008


 


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2007 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2007.

Biggest prize winner in the book was

"Classics Scholar in a Hospital" by Daniel Fernandez (Brooklyn, NY).  This anthology is available for $10.00 plus postage.

 

 



 


 ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2006 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey.  San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2006.

Biggest prize winner in the book was
"The Road Not Finished" by Glenna H. Holloway (Naperville, IL). This anthology is available for $10.00 plus postage.



 


 ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2005 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey. San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2005.

Biggest prize winner in the book was "The Meandering Love Poem" by Sue Ranglack (Murray, UT). This anthology is available for $8.00 plus postage.
 


ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2004 Edited by Valerie Martin Bailey. San Antonio, TX NFSPS, 2004.

Biggest prize winner in the book was "Sunday in the House He Left" by Anne McCrady (Henderson, TX). This anthology is available for $8.00 plus postage.

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2003 Edited by Budd Powell Mahan, Dallas, TX: Great Impressions, 2003.

Biggest prize winner in the  book was "Reflection: For Li Po and Tu Fu" by Ruth F. Harrison (Waldport, OR). This anthology is available for $8.00 plus postage.

 
 
2003

ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2002 Edited by Budd Powell Mahan. Dallas, TX: Great Impressions, 2002.

Biggest prize winner in the  book was "Trimming Poison Ivy" by Pat Underwood (Colfax, IA). This anthology is available for $6.00 plus postage
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ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2001 Edited by Budd Powell Mahan. Dallas, TX: Great Impressions, 2001.

Biggest prize winner in the  book was "Six Riffs on the Rain" by Jeanne Wagner (Kensington, CA). This anthology is available for $6.00 plus postage

 

 


 ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 2000 Edited by Budd Powell Mahan. Dallas, TX: Great Impressions, 2000.

Biggest prize winner in the  book was "Sharky" by Carlee Swan (Lebanon, SD). This anthology is available for $4.00 plus postage


2000

 ENCORE: PRIZE POEMS OF THE NFSPS 1999 Edited by Budd Powell Mahan. Dallas, TX: Great Impressions, 1999.

Biggest prize winner in the  book was "Superior in All Seasons" by Barbara Brent Brower (Okemos, MI). This anthology is available for $4.00 plus postage.