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Thursday, January 22, 2026

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January 2025 - Southern California Shadows

SANDY FRYE "Those Unseen"

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL "Raise the Dead"

R A RUADH "A dying of shadows"

PJ SWIFT "Tiny Finger"

SHERRY MEEHAN "A Shadow in Time"


February 2025 - Southern California Embrace

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE "Black Friday"

CONNIE JOHNSON "I Wore You Like a Fro..."

R A RUADH "Wrapping"

SHIH-FANG WANG "Defying Time"

CLS SANDOVAL "Send the Note"


March 2025 - Southern California Steps

ALICIA VIGUER-ESPERT "Olives"

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL "First Steps"

JOSEPH MILOSCH "Moon Dancing"

DAVID FEWSTER "My Hollywood Summer"

GIA CIVEROLO "swirling tastes"


April 2025 - Southern California Windows

JACKIE CHOU "I Break My Nose..."

TIM TIPTON "Creatures of Rooms"

S A GERBER "High Vision"

JOE GRIECO "Chinese Elm"

R A RUADH "Three grandmothers"


May 2025 - Southern California Selfies

LORELEI KAY "Murmuring Louvre"

MARIE C LECRIVAIN "Shadow Self(ies)"

CLS SANDOVAL "My Husband's Eyes..."

GIA CIVEROLO "What really matters"

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE "Like Jesus"


June 2025 - Southern California Water

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL "I Found Your Bones"

COCO "The Power of Water"

JACKIE CHOU "Basho's Lost Moment"

R A RUADH "Enough?"

CLS SANDOVAL "The Monster"


July 2025 - Southern California Pixels

CLS SANDOVAL "I Didn't Mean to Be So Obvious"

LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL "My Television is Watching Me"

RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA "Tremble"

WYATT UNDERWOOD "a pixel"

JEFFRY JENSEN "Pixels Playing Loud and Proud"


August 2025 - Southern California Pathways

HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM "Back to the Funhouse Again"

JACKIE CHOU "I Walk a Road Less Traveled"

RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA "White Tulip Gray"

JOSEPH MILOSCH "The Dusty Leaves of Clover"

MARTHA ELLEN "My Sister Has Cancer"


September 2025 - Southern California Alienation

MARIA A ARANA "Alienation"

HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM "Alienation"

SHIH-FANG WANG "Fractured Love"

GIA CIVEROLO "Her grandmother wore the same..."

PJ SWIFT "Dead Insect Songs"


October 2025 - Southern California Clouds

JACKIE CHOU "Clouds in My Coffee, Foam on My Chai"

JOAN McNERNEY "Blown Away"

JOSEPH MILOSCH "Arrows of Sorrow"

TIM TIPTON "Fly boy"

SHIH-FANG WANG "Sunset"


November 2025 - Southern California Fruit

JEFFRY JENSEN "Orange Grove Stomp"

LORELEI KAY "Those Tantalizing Reds"

MARIE C LECRIVAIN "Persephone"

TRISH SAUNDERS "Big Orange Sun"

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE "Good Friday Sonnet"


December 2025 - Southern California Branches

SUSAN ISLA TEPPER "Seeded"

JACKIE CHOU "The Thanksgiving Tree"

HEDY HABRA "After the Storm"

HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM "Ship"

CARL STILWELL AKA CALOKIE "Me & Adam"


Please vote for your choices by commenting below...


5 comments:

Don Kingfisher Campbell said...

I have received a vote for Trish Saunders "Big Orange Sun", thank you.

Abel R. said...

HEATHER ROMERO-KORNBLUM "Alienation"

Trish Saunders said...

SUSAN ISLA TEPPER. (I thought I had posted, but it didn't appear...am I voting twice?)

Don Kingfisher Campbell said...

I see this comment only. Feel free to post many times for many poems.

Heather Korn said...

Carl Stilwell "Me & Adam"

Title Cards of the Winners!