Nominations!

...will be held Saturday, December 30th, from 3 to 5 pm on Saturday Afternoon Poetry's Zoom channel. Please name your choices to help me choose the finalists (from the issues and nominees listed here) in the comments section below:

BEST POEM IN SENSUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: EROTIC POETRY - Nominees: Vib Aparicio "Viva La Vida", Petrouchka Alexieva "Tango for Two", Mani Suri "Prayer", Jackie Chou "Sexy Senryu Sequence", Robert Fleming "we zoom again", Tanya Ko Hong "Journey", Alicia Viguer-Espert "To encourage me", Judy Barrat "Like David", Carl Stilwell "Femme Fatale", Lorelei Kay "O Paris", Kimberly Cobian "Bajolover", Gia Civerolo "Shock Therapy"

BEST POEM IN BARDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TOP 30 SO CAL POETS - Nominees: Suzanne Lummis "Really Mystic River", Petrouchka Alexieva "The Painter and The Sea", Fernando Castro "A Long Scar", Gia Civerolo "catholic girls howl", Denise Dumars "Sharps", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Throttling a Magnetic Truth", lalo kikiriki "On a street with no name", Thelma T Reyna "Among His Things", Vachine "Summer of 1960", Pam Ward "Hansel and Gretel's Field Notes on Roe", Charles Harper Webb "In Line at Trader Joe's", Diosa X "I Once Had a Poem"

BEST POEM IN TRAVELING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: TRAVEL POETRY - Nominees: Cls Sandoval "See you later, Babe", Jackie Chou "Traveling to the San Gabriel Valley", Carl Stilwell "Californicatin'", Christine Jordan "Dukes", Petrouchka Alexieva "Life is a Theme Park", Joseph Grieco "Staycation", Lawrence R Berger "Getting back to my roots", William P. Cushing "Cusquenos", Marianne Szlyk "After Lee Morgan", Joseph Nicks "Next to Nowhere", Alicia Viguer-Espert "October's Last Facing the Pacific", Mary Mayer Shapiro "Recreating Creation"

BEST POEM IN IT RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF WEATHER - Nominees: Mary Mayer Shapiro "Mother Earth / Father Time", Shih-Fang Wang "It never rains right", Tim Tipton "How Cary Grant Taught Me to Tie a Necktie", jerry the priest "sky throwin' bullets of hail", Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "California Street", Jackie Chou "Snowless in Los Angeles", Patrick Greard "california shorty", Lori Holloway "winds", Lorelei Kay "That Autumn Scent", Cls Sandoval "Jack Parsons lives on Melrose", Rick Leddy "After the Storm", Raquel Reyes-Lopez "Local TV News Reporter Got the Weather Segment Wrong"

BEST POEM IN RHYTHMS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: RHYMING POETRY - Nominees: Cls Sandoval "American Freedom", Joseph Nicks "Pubsprung", Judy Barrat "Imagine a Land", Michael G. Hickey "My Infatuation Situation", William P. Cushing "So Long, Dr. John", Jackie Chou "Sheepish", Jackie Chou "Heavenly Things", Charles Harmon "The Song of Dining at Black Angus", Gabriela Docan "An Infinity of Beauty", Gia Civerolo "love walks out the door", Aaron Hernandez "blue stool", PJ Swift "To Give"

BEST POEM IN HEAT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SUMMER POETRY - Nominees: Robert Fleming "Slip nd Slide", Petrouchka Alexieva "I found oasis in the desert", Marianne Szlyk "Sophia, What Might Have Been", Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "The Summer of Woodstock", Lawrence R Berger "Small Fires', Maria A Arana "death can be many things", Tim Tipton "Creature of Rooms", Matt J. McGee "Buckle Up", Dean Okamura "Playing on the shores", Jack G Bowman "Summer High Desert", Cls Sandoval "Jell-O Shots"

BEST POEM IN VEHICLES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF MOVEMENT - Nominees: Lori Holloway "Bob's Garage", Christine Jordan "Impression: Blue Buick", Cls Sandoval "I Went to the Party", Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "Out of This World", Ellyn Maybe "I was Driving on the 405", Dean Okamura "Turn the 1950 Oldsmobile Rocket 98 Steering Wheel", Marne Carmean "Sanctity of Carnage", Petrouchka Alexieva "26th Mission", Mark Fisher "rolling through", Jackie Chou "Riding the Pumpkin-Colored Carriage", Rosie Hamilton "Homecoming", PJ Swift "My Jalopy"

BEST POEM IN EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: SCHOOL POETRY - Nominees: Luke Stilwell "Field Trip to Hell", Ellyn Maybe "Science Poem", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Professor X", Jackie Chou "Housemates", Jim Babwe "Spinach", Cls Sandoval "Recess", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Bite Me Hurricane", Christopher Chris Askew "I Built a World", Kelly Greene "Chalk Dust in The Laser Beam", Kimberly Cobian "This Teacher Isn't Ready to Go Back to School", Matt J. McGee "Fatty Gotta Make a Living ,Too", Gia Civerolo "with one candle"

BEST POEM IN LEAVES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: FALL POETRY - Nominees: Wyatt Underwood "fall, Southern California", Joan McNerney "Woods", Tim Tipton "Crisp Autumn Nights", PJ Swift "BNW RIP", Alicia Viguer-Espert "Changing Light", Dean Okamura "Now, what have I become?", Joseph Grieco "Equinox", Jackie Chou "Autumn Song for My Late Father", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Calling All California Parts", S.a. Gerber "Old Path", Patricia Murphy "Fall", Gia Civerolo "let them fall where they may"

BEST POEM IN DEAD POETS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: MEMORIAL POETRY - Nominees: Matt J. McGee "Please Take the Day Off Work and Dance Upon My Grave", Luís Campos "When a Poet Dies", Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie "To Rosalee", Lynne Bronstein "Rumors About Emily", Robert Fleming "brick walls bury bad neighbors", William P. Cushing "And Then There's This", Gerda Govine Ituarte "A Man of All Seasons", Ellyn Maybe "Clocks Written in Invisible Ink", Jim Babwe "Formal Logic", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Master Poet", Gia Civerolo "Ode to LA Poet Wanda Coleman", Patrick Thomas Jeffries "1313"

BEST POEM IN HOLIDAYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: VACATION POETRY - Nominees: Robert Fleming "why am i cooking again a 24-30 lbs. turkey for 5½-6¼ hrs. at 325-350 deg. Fahrenheit", Jackie Chou "The Snow Globe", S.a. Gerber "Living the Life", Gia Civerolo "all souls day", Jeffry Michael Jensen "Looking for Small Beauties on Holiday", Carl Stilwell "Decolonize This Poem", Rosie Hamilton "Tenant's Harbour, NE", Tim Tipton "I had a dirty weekend with a total stranger", Patricia Murphy "Holiday", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Vacation Vista", Mary Langer Thompson "The Language of My Lake", Michelle Smith "Yada Yada"

BEST POEM IN RESOLUTIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: WISH POETRY - Nominees: Petrouchka Alexieva "RIP My Past", Carl Stilwell "Pascal and Bukowski Sneak from Snotty Sestina to Go to Santa Anita", Wyatt Underwood "waiting", Lorelei Matsuda "Wishing on a Braid", Douglas Richardson "Convention Weekend", Ellyn Maybe "Poem for a New Year", Matt J. McGee "Evidence of Her Routines", Dean Okamura "The Phrases", Cls Sandoval "Black Meets Purple", Radomir Vojtech Luza "Hard and Easy", Rosie Hamilton "An Eternity of Wishes", Iris De Anda "Planet Earth"

BEST POEM OF THE YEAR 2023 PUBLISHED BY FOUR FEATHERS PRESS - No nominations accepted for this category

Deadline for commenting is December 28th, 2023!